Liam Payne Says It's 'Dead Complicated' To Visit Son Bear Amid The Pandemic

Liam Payne has come clean about the "dead complicated" process he's had to endure to co-parent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

During an Instagram Live on Thursday (January 7), the One Direction alum, 27, spoke with producer Ben Winston about scheduling time to see his son Bear Grey, 3, whom he shares with ex Cheryl Cole. "I went and saw Bear today. We had a little hangout which was quite nice as I hadn’t seen him in a couple of weeks," he shared during the chat, adding that he has to get tested for the respiratory virus prior to every visit. "I have to make sure I’m negative before I go over and see him so it’s having to wait that couple of days before you can test,"

Payne went on to confess that it is "hard with the COVID thing" to see Bear, but he's managed to see his son, especially since he was "only up the street and it's dead complicated, but he's gotten so big. He's huge."

Aside from co-parenting, Payne admitted that the pandemic has impacted him in other ways, but Louis Tomlinson, out of all people, has been there to offer him some support. “I've been struggling with it a little bit, Louis has definitely been there for me over the past couple of weeks, so I gotta say thank you,” Payne previously told Capital FM.

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