Louis Tomlinson hasn’t posted on X much lately. On Tuesday morning (July 15), though, the former One Direction star and solo singer explained his absence, attributing it to what he deemed a river of unsolicited conversation and criticism of his personal life. He said the unspecified comments included jibes about his eight-year-old son, Freddie Reign Tomlinson, who he shares with ex-girlfriend stylist Briana Jungwirth.
“The last few months have made it impossible to be on here,” he wrote. “All the conspiracy chat about my relationship, my son or even stretching sometimes to opinions on my Mum. It’s just too much and too hurtful for me to see! Thank you to everyone who always has my back!”
At press time Tomlinson had not provided specifics on which comments he was referring to, though many of the fans who commented on the post said they adamantly had his back. “I hate that you feel that way. Just because someone has an opinion about someone does not mean they need to blast it on social media. There is a reason I don’t do much on social media and this is an example of it. You do what you need for your own mental health,” wrote one. Another added, “Sorry that people are still trying to make a narrative of your life and decisions. No one have ever walked in your shoes and will never understand what you have been through or going through in your entire life. You are enough as you are.”
Tomlinson has not gone official with his latest relationship, though British tabloids have claimed he is dating a well-known British reality star and documentary filmmaker. The singer’s mother, Johannah Deakin, died in Dec. 2016 of leukemia and his sister, Félicité, 18, passed from an accidental overdose in March 2019.
The singer has not released a new album since 2022’s sophomore solo effort, Faith in the Future. He has played a handful of festival dates this year, at the July 9 Ejekt Festival in Athens, Greece and a gig at ZOA City in Zurich, Switzerland on July 11. His only other scheduled show at the moment is a July 26 stop at the MBank Summer Festival in Lodz, Poland.
In late May, Tomlinson posted a series of pics from a recording studio in which he stood in front of a vocal mic while seemingly checking lyrics on his phone. He captioned the pics “Pura Vida,” which translates to “pure life” in Spanish and is a commonly used phrase in Costa Rica, though the pictures did not indicate where he was.
See Tomlinson’s post here.