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Louis Tomlinson

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“Oh nice a man. I appreciate that. Now I really enjoyed it, man. I really flew by, though. We've been talking for some time Yeah, it's good, mum”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cherishing those moments as well. So I definitely could have done that more as a young lad, but I think that's probably the case of a lot of young people that they probably reflect and think, well, I should have done that more as a young person. But the truth is the ball hasn't really dropped yet. You don't realize how important those all those little intricacies are because also when you're young, everything's so new. So you just like the law is so much sexier on the other side. Oh, look, there's a new thing here, new thing here, new thing here. Whereas I think it takes a bit of age and experience to look at those things and go, oh, actually, maybe I haven't been spending my time correctly.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, I haven't. I haven't. But... That's a really tough one to answer. It requires some true, true honesty. The things that really, really matter. For a star, I spent a lot of my later teen years and early adult life in one direction. So I didn't. I didn't really, I wasn't really in the headspace for the ball to have dropped for how important certain things are. When you're younger, you're super literal, right? Like if I drink this alcohol and get really drunk and I feel good, then that's good, right? Then you get a bit older and you realize, oh, maybe it's not so good. So like any of those kind of things, I suppose now I understand how important looking out for yourself is and mental health, but also I've always been a family guy, but I mean, actually deeply”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, honestly, I can never talk about this enough Anyone listening to this now that doesn't know me or my fans would just think that this is just another artist speaking another cliche about his fans. I'm telling you, this is what I call is a codependency. Like I do so much for me and I do, you know, hopefully stuff for them when I do the gigs and stuff. But like when I feel the energy on stage, this is not a let me show you all what I can do. This is a look what we've done together. You know, and I really, really feel that. The size of the venues that I'll be playing on this next tour, these are things I never considered for myself and only made possible from the fan base being like really, really loyal, but also like real patient, real patient for me to just kind of, you know, work all these things out on the fly while they keep buying the record.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I now feel worthy for the success that I've earned and for a long time. I didn't know if I'd ever get there. And I would say this record, this album, is the album that I was always, that I always deserve to make. It's just I had to be brave enough to say, yes, I'm an artist, yes, I'm a recording artist, and I'm a touring artist and I'm a songwriter. And all these things that sometimes just felt a little bit cringe to say out loud, weirdly. And I think part of the imposter syndrome may be. But the picture that was forever quite blurry looks a little bit more sharp now.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I feel like Truthfully, like obviously, not what I would have told my sisters back in the day or my family or anything like that, but it was more of a concept. The idea of me getting over this and being truly happy. For a long time, it was like a concept as opposed to any kind of form of reality. It was like, oh, well, I'm sure, you know, logically that makes sense in my head, but will I ever get that? I don't know.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I lied that because I never really thought about that like this. It makes me feel good. It feels like I'm on the home straight.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Genuinely shouldn't matter where my album charts. Let's just say like the UK, for example, where my album charts in the UK. It shouldn't really matter that much to me, but it does. I've not quite got there yet. And I think the irony is, I just started to get there on the last record, and the last record, obviously high class problem, I get that, went to number one. And then all of a sudden I'm like, obviously I want it again now. I started to have the answer for what the new thing of success looks like until I succeeded, I superseded my own idea of success. And then I'm like, oh well, then the barriers just changed. And then you're basically just playing the same game you were before.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I tell you what success is success for me. Is actually successfully computing what the new idea of success is. So I know what my old idea is, but true success for me, and I'm not there yet, is getting to the point where I don't just say this is my new version of success. I mean it implicitly. And it's really, what's really difficult is... The music industry is an industry that is A, a numbers game, and B, competitive. Now, you can pretend to have this different vision of success, and you can get there in the end. But the point being that there are a million different tools in place to pull you to the other side.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“As I said, I'm Deeply, deeply romantic person. It's also easy to be romantic when you're a creative. You know, those two things are just, they're tight. I think for me I really struggle to write in a fictional sense. I really, really struggle. So for me, I have to have been living it. It has to be literal. It has to be real to me. So if I wasn't feeling so good right now, I wasn't feeling so in love, the record probably would have a slightly different feel to it. Just because... Things like that are in everything that we do, I would say.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not sure some of my other music did that. It made you feel it was honest. It was painful at times, but it didn't feel that good. So I think now I've got this almost like a new sense of life, a new sense of happiness and purpose and fulfillment, all those things. But also it's something I've like the older I get, the more hippie I can get on these kind of ideas. And if I would use an analogy on the last two records, I had a very small palette of paint of the colors I was choosing from. And a lot of them were kind of darker colors. Whereas on this record, it feels like the palette is a lot deeper. There is a lot more to say, but there's a lot more color on there as well. That makes me feel the good because I must feel good to make that record. You can't fake shit like that, or at least I can't anyway.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now I feel in a comfortable place to be like positive and like happy and confident, you know, that's one thing I was thinking about with this record is like my intention is just to maybe feel good. And that's a really cliche thing to say.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All of those things are so relevant. They are personal life and how happy you are and fulfilled and content, all those things, of course, play into the record definitely. I think because of a lot of the conversation we've just had, there's been a certain kind of weight to the music before now. Like I said, I wrote that song about my mum called Two of Us. And there's just a certain, I could imagine, you know, listen to my first record, like I'd be pretty exhausted after listening to it emotionally. He's like, fucking hell, just put in a couple of nice, happy, fun songs, you know. But it wasn't true to me at that time. So like, I think now.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now some people may well just crud the mic and just touch the stage, you know, but there are moments like that that I think I don't think he's going to truly understand until he gets a little bit older. He's been through a couple of gigs and that definitely added some context to it all.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would be more than happy to nobody to ever recognize me when I'm not at work, when I'm at work, I'll need it for the promo. Give me a bit of that. But when I'm not at work, I could go out of my way to just never have any of that. Hood up, no one, come. So when I'm picking up Freddie from school, I am certainly not some guy used to be in this band and this singer, like not at all. I am there like everyone else as a father or as a mother. It was last year to go to Pick him up and go into his class and I could just hear what sounded like karaoke and I'm thinking of all fucking days of me going to pick him up. They're doing karaoke today. And she had absolutely no problem asking me in front of everyone if I wanted to come to the front and do one of the songs. Now I'm there as a parent. And what's really tough is in front of Freddie and all his friends, I have to politely decline. Now, I don't really like how that's going to make Freddie feel. You know, those kind of situations are really, really tough like that.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Second or third time that had happened, I just played in my mind. I put into bed that night and I was reliving it and I was thinking, he's going to think I'm a dick. And I was like, because it's really important that I push kindness on him and respect and seeing the good in people and all of that. And all of a sudden I was doing this thing that was really contrary to what I was kind of trying to teach. So I did have to have a conversation with him about it. But again, you're trying to explain algebra, as I said to you before, when I'm not at work.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, good for my ego as well. The only things that can sometimes be challenging like that with Freddie is it took, it was like the elephant in the room for ages, me talking about my life and specifically the fame, like specifically those kind of things. Because I think to a kid, they just see it in the pure sense of a singer. You know, there's someone who sings and that's that. But I think where it became inevitable that I'd have to have conversations with him, it'd be like, say we're out, you know, at Target in America and someone stops me for a photo. Now, I'd like to say I'm pretty good with photos. I'll do them eight times out of ten. Whenever I'm with Freddie, there is a 1000% no chance. Like that is just not happening. I don't get enough time with them as it is. Always, always balancing my time between Tor and going to see Freddy in the UK. So like it's just a flat no every single time.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's great, man. I tell you what, I'm at this age, 33, few gray hairs on my head, starting to be a bit more aware of my age, feeling a little bit older. There's nothing that makes you feel better than when I go pick them up from school. I am a young dad. For that age group, I'm still a young dad.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We should talk about Freddie for a second, my little boy. Which is again something that happened to me. I was young, I was 24 when I had Freddie. Now what a lot of people, the emotions that a lot of people go through when they've become a new parent, some of those will be different for me because I've always been uber excited about it, even from being a young, young lad. But also truthfully, I felt utterly confident. I felt like I was going to be a good dad. I really, really wanted to do that and to play that role. And he's just, honestly, he is just the sweetest kid, man. He's just so kind. Like that's what honestly I could well up thinking about it now. Like, that's what makes me feel deeply proud.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And all I would say in any regard like that Not just Lame in any person like that. After you judge, because sometimes it's human nature to judge, after you judge, just give those things just a little bit more thought. So take the Torah thing, for example, and is at the Tor show and people were making comments of how much he was loving the attention. On the surface level, that's someone who wants attention. If you just look a little bit deeper, that's someone who's just been in the biggest band in the world and wants those situations again, who hasn't had those live situations again and craves for them. The reason also Liam can be misunderstood is because he didn't really operate with a filter. So he would just feel something, say it, and there you go.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He put up, and luckily I know someone with a screenshot of it because he deleted in the end, but he put up this beautiful post after my premiere for this documentary, like an essay, a fucking essay, like stuff that he's never said to me before was like the sweetest, nicest fucking shit. And about two days later he deleted it because the fans were just caning him for it, just saying that he was like, you know, bandwagon, kind of like, like, you know what it's like. It's a very small percentage of people, but they make a lot of noise and sometimes it'll push you to a point of even deleting a pose. But that being an example of him just really putting himself second and really trying to say to the world how proud he was for me and the end goal was more ridicule.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not sure I would have been brave enough to do. I'm not sure the other boys would have. And basically, all that is to sum that up is just utterly putting himself second. There's no way that that wouldn't have had a certain kind of weight on him. Because as you said, we're all human and we naturally compare. So, you know, there might be things. And I just did the role reverse in my head and imagined that. I just imagined how challenging it that could be. And it's just a real testament to Liam. And he couldn't have been more happy. And it's another great example, right, of this, of where the fucking internet are just, it's just a horrible place at times.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll just say this because I was going to mince me words, but none of the other boys would have done that. Fact, boys out the band, the lads in one direction. Would I have even done that? I'd like to sit here now and say, yeah, I think I would, but I don't know truthfully. And the point being that me empathizing how I was a couple of years prior to that, Liam was sat in a cinema watching a film about how I'd been successful in the last 12 months when he was struggling with his own things. And it's something that...”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A time where I felt like me and Liam were professionally losing together. We were struggling to be solo artists and find true success and we were kind of struggling together. And then Liam had little moments where he had like really successful singles and they streamed really well and he'd feel really good about that. But at that time nothing was really working for me in my job. So I was really proud of him and I'd messaged him and stuff. And then not the same weight, but kind of roll reversed a little bit and Liam Stock was struggling a little bit more professionally and I just started to understand the picture a little bit more, started doing more touring and stuff like that. Like, for example, when I made a documentary in a film about my life after one direction and Liam came to the premiere. Now,”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely brought up feelings like that look there's now only three other people on the planet that can deeply understand my professional journey Never say never, but never like I just can't ever imagine. Not sure if it would be right to him. Like, say, sake of argument 25 years time, it's like a fucking oasis thing. They offer us an arm and a leg and they come back and do this many shows. Yeah, I think it just completely put a Pen and all that. And the irony is there was no one campaigning for One Direction to get back together more than Liam. And I would say I came in a close second, actually, like definitely. Another important thing to mention about Liam, which I thought was incredible.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When we're at that age, we're all still just working it out. There's so much room to be misunderstood because you don't know yet, you know, and I think Was a tough thing for all of us working out who am I outside of. Liam in one direction, Louis in one direction. Who am I? And what does that look like? And that question's intimidating, really, really intimidat”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When most bands or artists are out, they do a development stage for six months, twelve months, eighteen months, two years. We had to do this development in the public eye, post being in one direction. Liam was still working so much out. So the fact that he might have been misunderstood, you can't, there's some things that people definitely can be judged for. But in terms of him occasionally coming across like that, you can't even judge people on looking because they just see what they see. But in reality, that's just someone navigating almost in the way that if you went down to university and just people watched for two months, you would see some stuff, you know, of people that were struggling with some things and whatever, or, you know, complete walking contradictions. You'd see someone in the first year who says that they swear by this brand and they'll never wear this brand and the next year they'll be wearing said brand.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He would be like, honestly, even the fact that you two are friends and I didn't know about that until you mention it, Socrates, or maybe he mentioned it loosely. He would have loved that. He would have loved that. You would have been someone definitely, definitely that he would have felt really proud to know, you know, and because you come from also a very credible space and that's something that was always, always really important to Lee and business, very, very important to Liam. So, the fact that you saw him, that would have meant the world to him, definitely. He very, very misunderstood. But I think also the fact that he was misunderstood is because he was, like I said before about all of our solo endeavors.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My 150% wasn't nearly enough. And that's where we, you know, it's my own arrogance thinking that I could have helped really because it was so much deeper than what I could have done for him. He was definitely, you know, he was definitely struggling at that time in his life. A lot of people said this and I really, really resonated with me. Just he never... If he If he could just say just for five minutes just live in your head or my head and see how we perceive him, he would be so shocked.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In the car in LA and I just dropped, I'm pretty sure, again, my memory isn't good at these moments in time, but I think I just dropped Freddy off at school with my son. We were just about to pull back up home. Yeah, yeah, I think that's how it went down. It was actually, I found out through Nial. They told me I think he said Niels has on the lines I've seen the news, and I knew as soon as you said that. Of knew what it meant had the feeling to the had felicity, you know, and I think anyone has this when they're around someone who's struggling.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, really He had a bit of puppy dog energy about him. When you say pure there, that's what it makes me feel like. He's just the kind of guy that you might, you know, you might get a bit of banter wrong and it comes across a bit cutting and you see him go, oh, and you go on. It's just such a, just really want it to be liked. Now, we all do, obviously, like that in all of us, but I think for Liam, it was vitally important. But also he missed out on some of the social life, because from 14 to 16, he was actually working at that point. Like he was still at school and stuff, but his brain and his dreams and probably every night that he went to sleep he was thinking about how is he going to achieve what it is that he wants to achieve. He definitely had a very different genius to all of us.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Young lads don't reflect and go, Oh, I can see he's picking up a lot of the pieces I'm going to do a bit more for him. Well, no, you just see that. Like my role in the band might have been to be disruptive and have conversations with record labels or management or whoever. And that was for me to be disruptive and go against the grain. Liam's role was the opposite, but equally, if not more important, to just keep everything going, you know, and be that safe pair of hands of keeping everything in check. That's why from like a very young age, like he was called that the sensible one of the band, which I also don't think loved on him loads of favors mentally either.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think I would have been brave enough to say at that age when I was in the band. I think I would have had too much pride. But we all looked up to him massively for the reasons that I just stated, you know, he was vastly experienced before any of us had done anything. He was also the safest pair of hands, like in every sense of the word. So vocally interview, music video, you know, like whatever it would be. And he'd be like working and doing it, like he would always be the safest pair of hands where maybe me and saying the back, like either smoking a joint or doing something stupid. He would always, always have his eye on the ball. Ironically, created more space for, you know, when you've got someone who's willing to pick up the pieces and you've got young lads”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I when I put my post up about him, and by the way, it's so utterly challenging that there are just too many words and too many memories. It could just be infinite, the post. I really wanted to. Really wanted him to be remembered the way that he should be remembered. But this, you know, I could just go on and talk all day about how amazing he was. But I think we all looked up to him. If we were a”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, if I wanted to do something and I might be going out late at night and then Liam might say something along the lines of we've got a photo shoot at nine o'clock in the morning tomorrow we never saw eye to eye on those kind of things because I'm just like well I've got this amazing opportunity so I'm still gonna go out and you know party or whatever but I think Liam He came from a very very sensible point of view but mostly because he'd given so much more time and energy to it by that point like as I said like when yes it was my third audition but really they weren't too taxing the moments of the rejection I just got on with it and got through it and it was fine the only time X Factor was relevant to me was the times when I was auditioning those days whereas Liam it became his life from 14 right up until 16 You know he'd sang it like West Brom Stadium before like any of us had done anything”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely thereafter, I'd say in the first couple of years, mainly in recent speakers, we kind of butt heads a little bit. Like I said before, Liam had been, you know, he'd been working really, really hard since the age of 14 to get to where he was in one direction. My journey wasn't like that. So there was definitely...”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm quite guarded with this kind of information just because, as I said, I think a lot of people, if I never spoke about it, I don't carry myself as someone that looks like they're really hurting. At least I hope I don't. I don't think I do.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I found that really, really troubling. And I think what was interesting was I left the interview and I used to be good at this when I was a bit younger and I obviously took to Twitter. I was like, I never fucking working with the BBC again. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then he came back at me, this journalist. He said, well, if you write a song about grief, expect to be asked about it. And my instinctive reaction was, there's somebody who hasn't experienced grief. They couldn't possibly have. Because if they had, they wouldn't make such a... Horrible, horrible comment that just lacks all kind of empathy. So I think it's those kind of moments where I've”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, if I was going to go on and talk about what the song was about, then fair enough. That's one thing. But I actually had a journalist at the time who asked me directly about those things, and I'd known that we'd said don't. Now, it's very different to be like sometimes on that list we might have don't speak about one direction. This is not what I've got a problem with. But when someone's had their own grief and you still then going to ask those kind of questions, I think...”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To not be defined by it. And an example of that would be when I released a song called Two of Us, which was a song that was written essentially about my mum's passing. I didn't realize by releasing that song how A, it would open the floodgates to have many people kind of put a lot of their trauma on me as well, which is okay, but also creating this thing where anyone just feels like they could ask anything then. So I remember going on to BBC, breakfast news, And it's one of those things that's fucking early morning slot. Like, not even the presenters want to be there. Never mind me at that time. I'm not good at the early mornings. Anyway, so I'm going on to talk about two of us, the single. Now, we distinctly said, you know what it's like? These are the things that are okay to mention and do not mention these things.”
2025-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If we walked out of here and we just happened to get papped, right? In the article, the Daily Mailprint, every single time, they will write about this stuff. Like every single time, it could be me and you go and get a coffee and then, you know, they do that thing where it's like a 20% new article and then they just fluff out the rest 80% with basically the narrative that they want to push. But that's something that I can't escape and I find that really frustrating because I'm not someone who is a glass half empty kind of guy. I don't want those kind of feelings and emotions. I empathize and understand with anyone hearing these stories. Of course, you're going to, maybe you would feel bad for me. But I think my biggest worry in these kind of things.”
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“If someone like this was talking to me about this and I had not experienced that, I'd feel really sorry for them naturally. I don't like that. I don't like those feelings. I don't like those ideas. I appreciate that it's weighty and people should, of course, feel sorry. But I think the reason that I'm always quite selective of how when I talk about it is because I cannot have that define me. Khan it's not fair to my family, it's not fair to Felicity, it's not fair to my mum. I can't. And, you know, the problem is.”
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“Yeah, we do. I used to get that when I was younger. People always used to say how much I look like my mum. And as a young lad, that's not really what you want to hear. I'm really proud Yeah. You can see how much I love her there, bless. Alluded to some of this stuff in the past, not really ever spoke about it in depth like this. And part of the reason for that is, and this is the correct forum, and it makes sense, but part of the reason for that is. I can't think of anything worse than being, what's the word?”
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“Was probably the most like me mum. So that also carried its own way because it felt I'd say Felicity looked the most like my mum as well, like visually. Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, it's crazy.”
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“Think it was a bit of both. I think obviously mum passing definitely amplified any of those things. But I think with felicity, she was one of these people that She was uber intelligent from a young age, really, really, really intelligent, which is ironic. I'd say we're a relatively smart family, but she was like in their own league, really, really intelligent woman. And I think that brought its own social frustration for her. Definitely, you know, you hear these people that are intelligent from a young age. She would always have felt like she was on the outside looking in, but only because of her intellect really. And, you know, that's tough for kids when they're younger. Definitely it's not something I can personally relate to. But I can imagine how that would be really alienate and tough.”
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“Arrogant thing to say, I mean this more metaphorically, but it truly undermined me. It undermined all the hope that I'd had, all this kind of ideas that I was instill in post, a life without Armand. It just kind of undermined all those ideas. It made it a lot more challenging for me to say them and feel them and believe them. But the same with my sisters. So it just made everything, obviously, infinitely more difficult. The only thing I'm thankful is that my mum wasn't around to see that because that would have been horrible for her.”
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“You better promise me you look after your sisters. And I'm like, yeah, you know, of course, you know, I will. And she was like, but specifically Felicity, you know, she's fragile. I felt like I'd failed at the time. That's the truth. I know now that I didn't, and if she was here now, she would say that you didn't. But yeah, it doesn't change the feeling. And that's, again, that's always been the role I've played in the family. And all I was trying to do after my mum was just put me and my sisters and my grandparents in a bubble and just like let's just nothing's going to get to us, you know. So that. This sounds like a really”
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“I can only imagine how hard that was, and he knew how hard it was for me and how I'd just lost my mum, and there are no words, right? I'm sure he's just scrambling your brain trying to find the words and there isn't any. Also, bear in mind everything that I've said before this, if I was to don my role down to like one thing in life, I'd maybe say to look after people. Well, like in the context of my sisters, they're protector, right? Lose my sister in the manner that we did Even though I know I knew that it wasn't fair on myself, I felt felt utterly guilty, I felt powerless, and I felt Like had let me sister and like had let me mum down, really. My mum said to me like last couple of weeks of her life, she was like,”
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“Is me and my family are some of the characters in this story, but often what's not spoke about in the name of grief is people like my best friend and the role that they have to play. Now, these are not trained therapists. These are not people who've had any kind of reference of this kind of pain. And all you're doing as a best friend there is actually demanding or just praying, hoping that they give you something in return that will Not change the reality, but just, you know, be there for you or whatever. And that. Nothing prepares you in life for those kind of situations. That's something that I will forever, forever, ever be in debt to him for. Because, yes, you know, this is an unfathomable impossible situation for me and my family to have found ourselves in. But there are other people that play too, you know.”
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“Not only did I in denial at that moment, I just refused to even compute it. It was just like, okay, cool. And then I remember shutting the door. And then I told the people I was in the house with, and obviously then they start crying and obviously then I think your brain starts catching up with you. So then there was really, really tough for me at this moment in time. And this is a stupid thing to say because I know that he was more than willing to be there for me, but my best friend who I was living at the time, he was here today. I remember him saying, I'm just so sorry. And he was crying his eyes. I was just like, I'm just so sorry. I'm so sorry. I felt guilty that he felt like that, which is stupid. And so I'd said before about”
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