Kate Cassidy is headed in a new direction.

The influencer—who had been dating Liam Payne for two years at the time of his death in 2024—revealed that she’d recently been broken up with after she kept comparing the man she was seeing to the late One Direction member.

“Dating after losing somebody that you genuinely thought you were gonna spend the rest of your life with is really tough,” Cassidy explained in a June 22 TikTok, “because I physically look for Liam in every single guy that I meet.”

“If they don’t hit all the check marks, I tend to either back away or almost resent this person,” the 27-year-old continued. “And it’s so crazy.”

As for her most recent relationship, Cassidy added that she and her ex—whom she nicknamed “Joe”—had recently met and that their romance was “moving super fast.”

“Joe was really sweet and I feel like he was kind of like a lot of things that I wanted in a guy,” she said. “He’s super low key so he doesn’t have any social media, which I actually really liked. I met his family, he took me on trips. Things were going really well, really quick.”