Harry Styles’ mother Anne Twist is mourning her son’s One Direction bandmate Liam Payne.

Hours after the information broke on Oct. 16 that Liam had died at age 31, Anne shared a easy but heartbreaking response.

Posting the picture of a damaged coronary heart emoji to her Instagram account, Anne wrote, “Just a boy.”

Harry and Liam rose to stardom alongside their bandmates Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik after they have been paired on The X-Factor in 2010. One Direction went on to develop into one of the vital profitable acts in X-Factor historical past earlier than the hit boy band went on an indefinite hiatus in early 2016.

On Oct. 16, Liam suffered a deadly fall from the third story of a resort in Buenos Aires, Argentina, native medical personnel instructed Telemundo.

In the afternoon, police had acquired a 911 name from the identical resort “reporting an aggressive man who could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol,” in accordance to a press release from El Sistema de Atención Médica de Emergencias (SAME). Police didn’t share if substances have been truly concerned.