Rita Ora continues to feel Liam Payne's presence
The 34-year-old singer duetted with the tragic One Direction star - who passed away aged 31 after a falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina last October - on the track For You from the soundtrack to the 2018 movie Fifty Shades Freed and explained that she sings the tune "all the time" to keep his memory alive.
Asked if she will be watching Liam's final project - the Netflix show Building the Band - Rita told Elvis Duran and The Morning Show: "I 100 per cent will watch it.
"That's a really great friend of mine. I still sort of feel him anyway, so it's fine."
The Let You Love Me hitmaker continued: "I have the last song that I think we did together as a duo and I sing it all the time. And it just feels like he's just right there. And we always do a cute little moment of a photo of him and it feels fantastic to just feel like he's still around through music.
"That's why music is so powerful. It really does bring back a person, a memory, a feeling.
"So yeah, I have this incredible memory with him, with For You, our song together, and I'll always have that."
Rita hosted the MTV EMA Awards a month after Liam's death last year and paid an emotional tribute to him at the ceremony in Manchester.
She tearfully said: "I just want to take a moment to remember someone that was very, very dear to us.
"We lost him recently, and he was a big part of the MTV world and my world, and I think a lot of yours at home and everybody in here tonight. Liam Payne was one of the kindest people that I knew.
"And you know, there were so many ways that we were talking about honouring him, and I think sometimes just simply speaking is enough."
Ora added: "He had the biggest heart, he was always the first person to offer help in any way that he could. He put so much joy into every room he walked in. And he left such a mark on this world. So let's just take a moment to remember our friend."
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