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Tyler Oakley on 1D and Liam Payne fall-out: 'I still buy their albums'

Vlogger Tyler Oakley, whose new book 'Binge' will be released on October 20, has opened up about falling out with One Direction's Liam Payne and confessed that he learned a lot from the very public run-in. 

Back in January 2014, Oakley expressed his dismay at the fact that the heartthrob has tweeted about his support for Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson despite accusations that the reality star made homophobic comments in an interview with GQ.

Oakley, who has over 7.5m subscribers on his YouTube channel, publicly tweeted at the 'Story Of My Life' sensation: "Wow. Very confused and disappointed by this @Real-Liam-Payne tweet. This literally changes everything."

He has now written about the incident in his aforementioned new book and explained that he still supports 1D and their music, but really struggled to get through it at the time:

"It was one of those experiences where – I love pop music, boy bands and One Direction and that has never changed, it's always been real and authentic."

"I guess an experience where you learn who you might look up to, you might not know. It was an eye-opening moment where it all changed in a minute by holding other people accountable. Everything was intense and there was a lot going on on the Internet."

Oakley went onto add that his friends were fantastic throughout the ordeal and he initially thought it had the power to end his career:

"I got through it by being able to lean on my friends and other Internet people who spend their lives online and have to be conscious of the impact and what they say. Just to have those people to lean on while it was happening was pivotal for me."

"Even though now years later it's just a thing that happened, but at that moment I thought my career was gone and done. Now to have gotten to the other side of it all, to look back on it, I feel like I've grown a lot from that. It's one of those experiences where it feels like the end of the world at the time but I am so thankful that it happened because I learnt a lot about myself and the Internet, communities and fandoms."

"It really led me to a retrospective place surrounding those topics. I went my separate way and it's not a negative thing because to me, I still add their music to my playlist, I still buy their albums - but it's something that I would prefer not to have be part of my public experience."

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