love of my life

A week after his death, Cassidy posted a tribute to the singer online, describing him as "my best friend, the love of my life".

"Will was the love of my life and meant everything to me," she said.

"He was the love of my life... I lost hope of ever being happy again and started thinking, as people do when they reach a certain point in depression, it would be better for everybody if I wasn't here and I would be doing them a favour," she revealed in early 2018.

"He was the love of my life, but I don't want to cry because none of my memories of him are sad."

In her tribute to him after he died, she called Payne "my best friend, the love of my life" and said that she had "lost the best part of myself".