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The Sun
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Liam Payne's girlfriend Kate Cassidy in tears as she reveals her biggest fear on nine month anniversary of his death
KATE Cassidy has shared her biggest fear about growing old without boyfriend Liam Payne. In a heartbreaking video, Kate marked the nine-month anniversary of his death, breaking down in tears as she opened up about her grief and biggest fear. 4 4 4 She poured her heart out on TikTok and admitted she worried Liam wouldn't recognise her if they met again in the afterlife. 'Today marks nine months since Liam has left this world,' she said in the video. 'I don't know if this is just a message for myself, or for Liam, or for anybody that's navigating through grief that needs to hear this.' Fighting back sobs, Kate told followers she had recently cut her hair, got new tattoos, and pierced her ears She added: 'Liam's never seen me with hair this short. He's never seen me with all these tattoos. 'And then I start thinking deeper into it… I don't know how heaven works, but is Liam going to look the same way that he looked the last time I saw him?' Kate - who dated Liam for two years and lived with him - said one day, when she's old, Liam might not recognise her. 'When my time comes, will Liam recognise me? I'm going to have wrinkles, white hair, bony hands… how will he find me?' The heartbreaking thought left her in tears, but she recalled a comforting moment with a friend who reassured her: 'Of course he's going to recognise you… he's going to be so glad you lived.' Kate continued: 'He's going to want to sit there and hear all about it… It just reminded me to stay strong, and to carry on, and live my life to the fullest.' Kate Cassidy wipes away tears as she remembers Liam Payne on Lorraine Ending the emotional message, Kate added: 'Here's to another day of living life without the person that I love. I miss you so much. And I love you so much.' Kate's video has already touched thousands of viewers who praised her honesty. One said: 'Liam is with you darling, he would be so proud of you." Another shared: "He can see you." The One Direction star was tragically killed when he plunged from a third-storey balcony in Buenos Aires on October 16 last year. Liam, 31, took the cocaine before his fatal accident. Kate had been staying with Liam in Argentina but flew back to America before his fatal accident. 4
India Today
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
7 must-watch shows on Prime Video
7 must-watch shows on Prime Video Credit: IMDb Panchayat follows the journey of Abhishek who joins as a secretary of a Panchayat office in a remote village in UP. The fourth season of the series will premiere on June 24. Panchayat Gram Chikisalay is also a comedy drama revolving around rural India. The series follows the journey of Dr Prabhat who is on a mission to transform a neglected primary health centre. Gram Chikitsalay For those who prefer to watch a romantic drama, Made In Heaven is the perfect choice. The show revolves around two best friends, who are wedding planners, planning different weddings in each episode. Made in heaven Bandish Bandits is for those who love music and romantic dramas. The show revolves around a couple who represent different worlds of music. The second season of the show released in December 2024. Bandish Bandits Mirzapur is one of the most loved series on Prime Video. The show follows the journey of Akhandanand Kaleen Tripathi and his bid to control power in Mirzapur, which is neck deep into lawlessness. Mirzapur Credit: IMdb The Family Man revolves around an intelligence officer working for Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell. The high-octane action thriller has received several awards, including 11 Filmfare OTT awards. The Family Man Inside Edge is a perfect pick for sports lovers. The series revolves around a fictional T20 cricket team named Mumbai Mavericks, which finds itself amid a spot fixing syndicate. Inside Edge Which one is your favourite?
Daily Mail
08-06-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
I was killed by a truck and a divine voice said it wasn't my time... here's why I can't wait to die again
Up to 15 percent of the world's population have had a near-death experience, with many revealing what they saw heaven - but not everyone came back willingly. A group of near-death survivors has revealed their 'horrible' experiences after being ripped away from the afterlife and returned to their bodies. One man who almost died after overdosing on a health supplement told the Daily Mail he had already gotten comfortable with being in heaven when he was 'forced' to return to Earth against his wishes. Others, including one man that was nearly killed after being hit by a truck, revealed that they actually heard voices telling them it was not their time to enter heaven. However, one near-death experiencer believes he was sent back to Earth intentionally to experience the negative emotions that don't exist in the afterlife. Whether they returned reluctantly or with a divine purpose, near-death experiencers have continued to share their stories of what awaits beyond death. Daily Mail spoke with several who have dedicated their lives to spreading the lessons they learned in death and who now help others to lead a life that will one day grant them entrance to heaven. Still, many of these returning souls keep their own pain hidden, as they now have to wait years to go back to a heavenly realm they didn't want to leave. The stories of people who have seen heaven but then unwillingly returned to Earth were recently discussed on the 'Outer Limits of Inner Truth Reborn' podcast in May. Host Ryan McCormick said: 'I spoke to multiple individuals who have had profound near-death experiences where they describe reaching a light, or a physical afterlife, and then being forced reluctantly back into their bodies.' 'Some of these near-death experiencers have spent many years yearning to return - but also hoping to share the knowledge they have gained with others,' he continued. Peter Bedard from California had a near-death experience after he was hit by a truck. Bedard said his soul jumped out of his body just before the impact. He could see his body and knew he was dead, but felt an 'incredible sense' of life filling him as he entered a spinning tube of white light towards heaven. Bedard also encountered a guide in the afterlife, but was told that he was 'not meant to be there' and was returned to his severely injured body. The former dancer endured multiple years in chronic pain after the accident. He contemplated suicide but feared heaven would reject him again if he carried out his plan. Bedard added that he now understands it was not his time yet, and has dedicated his life to helping others heal from physical, emotional, and psychological issues using hypnotherapy. Vincent Tolman said he was extremely reluctant to return to his body after meeting a 'gentleman dressed all in white' who introduced himself as his 'guide.' Tolman had overdosed on a bodybuilding supplement in a restaurant bathroom. Before being returned against his will, the guide showed Tolman around heaven, which gave the dying man a sense of love and fulfillment. 'I connected to the space. I connected to the grass and it's odd to say, but I felt a tremendous love and peace and serenity coming just from the grass as I touched it with my feet,' Tolman said. 'Then I got to kind of extend my consciousness over to the flowers, the trees, the water, and feel a completeness as I was starting to get used to being in that space,' he continued. That's when Tolman said his guide turned to him and revealed that it was time to leave the afterlife. 'This is going to be hard, but it's going to be worth it,' Tolman recalled the guide saying. As the man and guide hugged, Tolman said he felt a ball of energy explode between the two of them as he was thrown back into his body. By the time his journey through the afterlife was over, Tolman had spent three days in a coma. 'It felt as if I was pulled away from that heaven state, and I was forced back into my body, completely forced,' he said. Tolman admitted that for months after the incident he had a very hard time trying to pick up the pieces and make sense of what had happened. After recovering from his overdose, Tolman married, began to share his near-death experience with others, and admits that he remains 'super excited' to go back to heaven. Andy Petro was another near-death experiencer who was reluctant to return to his body. He said during the podcast that returning to his body was 'horrible' and that 'all he wants' is to be in the light again. Speaking to McCormick, Petro described how he developed a cramp while swimming during a class picnic in Detroit in 1955. He found himself stuck in mud at the bottom of a lake. 'I popped out of my body, and I'm heading towards a tunnel. I can look back and see my body stuck in the mud, and I'm saying to myself, 'Well, that's strange, because I couldn't see it before, but now I can see it,' Petro described. 'I turned the other direction, and there's this giant, beautiful, fantastic light. I would say it was equivalent to maybe 1,000 of our suns all at once, and it's just shining on me,' he continued. Petro said that he believes people come back to Earth out of choice, to experience the 'sorrow' of individual life. 'The reason I came down here was to experience fear, separation, hatred, segregation, all of these things you cannot experience in the light, because in the light, we are all one. There is no separation, there is no hierarchy, there is nobody in charge,' the near-death experiencer said. 'In the light, we are in charge. We are it. We are the big light, composed of an infinite number of smaller pieces of the light,' he added. Petro told McCormick that all he wants is to be back in the light, but he tries to share his knowledge of the light with others while he remains on Earth.
Daily Mail
04-06-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
Man who 'died' for 45 minutes during surgery reveals what he saw... it made him question everything
A man who died on the operating table for 45 minutes during his surgery has claimed he saw Jesus standing over him who showed him heaven. Mike McKinsey, from California in the US, experienced the terrifying near-death experience while undergoing surgery to have his appendix removed. In what doctors described as 'the worst case they'd ever seen, the procedure took an unexpected turn, leaving him temporarily 'dead'. This means a person's heart has stopped beating and they've stopped breathing, but they may still be able to be revived. In Mr McKinsey's case, doctors were forced to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, to restart his heart and bring him back to life, he revealed in a recent viral video posted on the YouTube channel Coming Home. Once 'clinically dead', he said he saw Jesus who he described as looking 'like an Arab man'. Wearing a white robe, the holy figure had 'wavy brown hair' and 'dark greenish-blue eyes', that he said 'looked right into' his soul. When he reached out to take the hand Jesus offered him, he said he was transported to a meadow. He recalled being barefoot in nothing but his surgical gown, standing on 'perfectly manicured' grass—with heightened senses allowing him to take in the moment. Then, as he adjusted his eyes to the white, he said to his right was a bight light which 'all of a sudden starts sending these beams.' 'I felt the surgical room is now replaced with this beautiful warm feeling. All of a sudden somebody is pulling a curtain from my right to my left. 'The white whatever it was—the white fog or veil or the just whiteness gets pulled to the side and now I'm looking at this beautiful scenery.' He described standing on a hill above little flowers with soft petals that moved like they were dancing in the wind—which confused him as there was no wind. 'There's one big gold dome like a capital and there's other smaller gold domes—I mean the city's huge. It is miles apart,' he said. There was 'the most beautiful' sunset he had ever seen and then he noticed one of the tubes 'of white' hit the top of a tree. 'It was like it had a diamond on it because when that thing hit the top of the tree it burst into hundreds of tiny little light streaks. 'Pretty soon the whole mountain is lit with these bursting white beams of light and they kept' which he described as being like 'a big giant firework show. When he looked at the source of the light, he said: 'Jesus says to me "it's the glory of the lord".' This was when he said he knew he couldn't die, and was brought him back to the surgery room. The first thing he remembers is the doctor asking him if he remembered his name or where he was. This was when he realised there were five other people in the room dressed in scrubs and he heard someone say 'he's back'. He realised he must have been resuscitated when he saw a crash cart next to him with one of the resuscitation paddles 'kind of laying aside' and 'chords hanging down'. 'It was obvious somebody had used it. Someone was over there putting them back together—and I thought, oh boy, I did die' he said. He spent 12 days in hospital losing two and a half stone, as he was initially on a liquid diet for six days, before being eventually allowed to eat banana. Mr McKinsey first began to experience health problems in August 2024, when he started to suffer stomach issues while at a wedding, but it wasn't until three days later he went to hospital. It was at the hospital in Ventura, an hour-and-a-half drive to west of Los Angeles, he discovered his appendix had burst—which can be life-threatening. He recalled the medical staff starting the IV, rolling him down the corridor, and saying goodbye to his wife. While, he also doesn't say whether his heart stopped and if so for how long, it is possible to be clinically dead for 45 minutes and survive with a defibrillator. The phenomenon of near-death experiences has fascinated people and experts for millennia, but until recently there had been no scientific explanation. In 2023, Dr Jane Aspell a professor of cognitive neuroscience at Anglia Ruskin University revealed recent research shed light on how the brain generates the experience of one's self—and what happens when it goes wrong. 'There is now strong evidence that out of body experiences, and related experiences, are caused by abnormal functioning in parts of the brain that process and combine signals from our bodies. She explained it may be caused by damage to a vital part of the brain responsible for processing senses and balance. This could explain why those who have come close to death, taken drugs or suffered from a brain injury are among those who have reported out of body experiences. Such accounts have detailed cases of sufferers floating above their body that is lying down beneath them just after a traumatic event or accident. The professor explained recent research shed light on how the brain generates the experience of one's self—and what happens when it goes wrong. The right side of the temporal parietal junction, which sits just above the ear is associated with out of body experiences, Dr Aspell explained. This part of the brain is active during social functions, and needed to process empathy and memory. It also draws on the senses of vision, sound and touch to create a coherent feeling of the self inside the body. Part of the temporal parietal junction, called the vestibular cortex, acts as the balance system in our ears, helping us know where we are in relation to gravity. The vestibular cortex could offer further explanation on out of body experiences, Dr Aspell believes. If this area is not working properly, 'the experience of being one single body might therefore be disrupted,' explained Dr Aspell. If the brain cannot combine information from this balance system with other senses, it can give the feeling of floating above your own body, explained Dr Aspell.
New York Times
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘The Phoenician Scheme' Review: Benicio Del Toro Plans to Save His Soul
With his diorama-like compositions and tales of longing — usually for a loving family — Wes Anderson has taken audiences most everywhere on the planet: Asia and Europe, New York City and the American southwest, a fox's hole and an island inhabited by dogs. With 'The Phoenician Scheme' he globetrots again, zigging and zagging about, but he adds an unusual place to the list: heaven. Or, more accurately, the pearly gates that stand just outside of heaven, guarding the way lest the unworthy sneak in. These scenes are really snippets, rendered in black and white. In them, we repeatedly glimpse the weapons dealer and generally shady business tycoon Anatole Korda, a.k.a. Zsa-zsa (Benicio Del Toro, who is perfect) standing on some clouds before a robed assembly of what the film bills as the 'biblical troupe,' among whom are F. Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hope Davis and Bill Murray, who, delightfully, plays God. That all of these screen luminaries apparently just popped to Anderson's set for a day to film a tiny scene is indicative of where the auteur stands at this point in his 31-year career. Still boyish in appearance, he's just turned 56, with a bevy of awards under his belt. He's synonymous with his intricate aesthetic, which is perhaps one of the most recognizable in cinema. It's turned him into a brand, with social media creators and critics alike drawn to examining and imitating him. He curated a show at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum in 2018, and as 'The Phoenician Scheme' was premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, he was simultaneously the subject of a show at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris. He's also built a career on an ever-expanding universe of returning collaborators and players. While some, like Murray, have been around for a long time, Del Toro is still relatively new to the fold, with 'The Phoenician Scheme' only his second Anderson outing (he had a role as a seductive criminal in 'The French Dispatch'). He plays the cold and aloof Korda who, upon surviving his sixth assassination attempt, finally admits he needs to appoint an heir to his business and vast fortune. He has nine sons who live in a dormitory across the street from his house — Korda is not a very good dad — but he also has an estranged daughter, Liesl (Mia Threapleton, all deadpan chain-smoking charm), who is on the verge of taking her vows at the convent. Liesl's moral sense is as upstanding as her father's is utilitarian, and when he lays out his plan to her, she senses she might be able to do some good even if she doesn't trust him. So she convinces him to take the slightly higher ethical ground toward his big, well, scheme — the details of which are laid out so rapidly, and so sketchily, that it's pretty clear Anderson doesn't care if we really catch on to what Korda wants to do. Despite its title, this is not a movie about a plan, but about the man with that plan and, most important, his soul. In fact, this is a rather soul-obsessed movie, the kind you often see from artists who have been pondering the meaning of life lately. I can't guarantee that's what Anderson's been doing, but I can confirm this is the first of his films that depicts religious inquiry in any explicit way. As Korda and Liesl traipse around the world trying to drum up funding for his scheme, they meet with a series of Korda's acquaintances and associates and relatives, all of whom reveal something about how he's conducted his business, and life, in the past. These include but are not limited to a prince (Riz Ahmed), a pair of brothers (Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston), a nightclub owner with the delightful moniker Marseille Bob (Mathieu Amalric), a guy named Marty (Jeffrey Wright), some militants led by a man named Sergio (Richard Ayoade), and finally two of Korda's family members: his utopian second cousin Hilda (Scarlett Johansson) and the grudge-bearing Uncle Nubar (Benedict Cumberbatch). Yes, that's a lot of names. It's not even all of them. And that illuminates the biggest issue with 'The Phoenician Scheme': It's overstuffed, and thus skims and skitters across the surface of everything it touches, only glancing here and there before it's taking off to the next story beat, the next exquisitely detailed composition. A breath or two or 10 might have been in order, a moment to contemplate what the movie's getting at. You sometimes get the feeling it's afraid to look too hard at itself. That does, however, mirror how Korda has lived his life, until the moment Liesl shows up. With each visit for each new funding plea, some aspect of Korda's life gets aired out briefly, and Liesl gets a better look at who her father really is. She also discusses God and religion and goodness with him, and with the tutor that Korda hires to travel with him and keep things intellectually interesting. The current tutor, Bjorn Lund, is an entomologist, so he's always talking about bugs; he's also played by Michael Cera, who somehow has never been in a Wes Anderson movie before. Thank god he's joined that particular cinematic universe. Korda, preternaturally calm about everything, confronts his past with outward aplomb, but there's an uneasiness growing in him. Between these scenes, we see him at those pearly gates, experiencing the difficulties that might lie in the afterlife. It's as if the mounting self-knowledge, prompted by Liesl's presence in his life, is prompting the long-overdue awakening of his conscience. And that leads to the big question the movie is asking, when you can look behind all that scurrying: Can a man like Korda be great, and also be good? Or are the two incompatible? Must conquering the world and amassing a fortune require exploiting everyone around him? (One of Liesl's innovations in his scheme is banning the use of slave labor, for instance.) Or, to quote a book of which Liesl is quite fond, what is the real profit if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? One of the mottoes by which Korda has lived his life is 'if something gets in your way, flatten it,' a slogan that sounds suspiciously similar to the kind of advice you get from rise-and-grind TikTok gurus or ethically bendy tech executives. But the higher up you get, the flatter everything below you looks. It's easy to forget all those humans down there. Greatness and success, 'The Phoenician Scheme' suggests, are all well and good. But there's joy that comes from returning to the three-dimensional world, to a place where you pray or you cook, where a little scotch and a game of cards with friends at the end of a long day means love.
