Earlier this year, Louis Tomlinson tragically lost his sister Félicité, just two years after losing his mother to cancer. Now, the singer has spoken about losing his two family members calling it "the darkest sh*t that I'm going to have to deal with."
In December 2016, the One Direction star lost his mother Johannah Deakin at age 43 after a battle with leukaemia.
Just over two years later in March of this year, the 'Kill My Mind' singer's sister Félicité Tomlinson, 18, was found dead in her flat, with the inquest ruling she had taken an accidental overdose.
Félicité had been taking drugs, including anxiety medication, since the death of her mother.
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Speaking to The Guardian, Louis said: "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 shit that I'm going to have to deal with.
He adds: "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."
Louis is the oldest of his mother's seven children, along with Félicité, Ernest and Doris, both five, Daisy and Phoebe, both 15, and Lottie, 18.
Speaking about his role as the older sibling, Louis says: "There's no time for me to be sat feeling sorry for myself. 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.
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"So, weirdly, I've turned something that's really dark into something that empowers me, makes me stronger."
In March, Félicite was found collapsed in her Earl's Court, London flat by her schoolfriend Zainab Mohammed.
On Wednesday 11th September, at an inquest into her death, coroner Shirley Radcliffe said "toxic" levels of anti-anxiety and pain medications, as well as cocaine, were found in her blood.
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Radcliffe said the mix of drugs had created "a perfect storm" but there was no evidence to suggest it had been "a deliberate act to end her life".
She recorded a finding of death by misadventure.
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