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Thursday, January 19, 2017 7:09am ET by  

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Louis Tomlinson: 'My mum told me I've just got to keep going'

Singer Louis Tomlinson has opened up about the recent death of his mother Johannah and said that when she first passed he just wanted to "throw the towel in", but he is learning how to cope one day at a time: "It was my mum who said to me that I've just got to keep going. She told me very sternly that she wanted me to."

The former One Direction star also said that him and Zayn Malik are still good friends and are both happy for one another's success within the music industry. 

During a new interview with SiriusXM, the heartthrob explained that enough time has passed now that they can be genuinely supportive of each other:

"I think a lot of us have spoken recently, me and Zayn have spoken recently, we've gotten to a point now where you can just really be happy for each other. Things have happened in the past, of course. And his first song was an absolute smash, and that's a great song, so yeah it's nice."

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