Louis Tomlinson Calls Out Interview For Exploiting His Grief Following Multiple Family Deaths
Louis Tomlinson would prefer not to talk about the personal tragedies he’s endured as he promotes his new solo album.
As fans know, the former One Direction band member is making his big return to music after losing both his mother Johannah Deakin to leukemia in December 2016, and younger sister Félicité Tomlinson after an accidental drug overdose in March 2019.
While the 28-year-old has briefly opened up about his pain with fans, he wants to make it clear his grief is not for the media to exploit — which is, unfortunately, exactly what he felt like the hosts of the BBC Breakfast Show tried to do during his interview on Monday.
Following the appearance, the singer’s fans slammed the interviewers for making him uncomfortable, leading him to write to his followers on Twitter:
“Defo wont be going on there again Haha! Love to all my fans for always having my back.”
The tweet sparked many responses — including one from Dan Walker, one of the hosts of the program, who asked Louis what exactly caused him to be so upset.
The superstar replied by accusing the program of what he felt was an attempt to use his pain to gain viewers, tweeting:
“I was upset that you continued to ask me about my grief. It goes without saying how hard it is to lose both people so close to me. The least I ask is that you respect my decision of not wanting to be asked in interviews about something so painful.”
In a follow-up tweet, he wrote:
“I’m lucky enough to have a creative outlet for me to talk about grief this doesn’t however give you the right to talk about it for gossip purposes.”
People tend to forget this, but celebs are still human, y’all — and no human wants to talk about their recently deceased family members during an interview that was supposed to be about something much more uplifting.
See a bit of the interview for yourself (below):
Louis, for his part, has already opened up about the devastating deaths in an interview with The Guardian in September 2019. Speaking on the family tragedies, he told the publication:
“That whole dark side I’ve gone through, it sounds stupid to say, but it gives me strength everywhere else in my life because that’s the darkest s**t that I’m going to have to deal with. So it makes everything else, not feel easier and not less important, but, in the grand scheme of things, you see things for what they are, I suppose.”
The musician went on to say that he felt like he’s actually gotten stronger after experiencing such profound losses, adding:
“I’ve been to rock bottom and I feel like, whatever my career’s going to throw in front of me, it’s going to be nothing as big or as emotionally heavy as that. So, weirdly, I’ve turned something that’s really dark into something that empowers me, makes me stronger. I don’t want people to feel sorry for me. That’s not how I feel for myself. Somehow it fuels me.”
That appears to be the case: after venting about Monday’s interview, the former boybander left things on a positive note for fans, writing in a concluding tweet:
“Anyway f**k the negativity now. It’s been a siiiiick week.”
Keep staying positive, Louis!
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