I’m really aware that the succes of One Direction has taken me away from home and my family prematurely. I was only 17 when this all started on The X Factor, after all. It has played with my mum’s head a fair bit. It’s hard for her and Dad to understand sometimes. There so many things in my life that are perfectly normal to me, but they-understandably- aren’t able to comprehend or grasp them. They do sometimes say, ‘We don’t know how you deal with some of the issues, Liam,’but you just learn, don’t you? I’ve had to be so independent from a young age, and I haven’t experienced that period of my life with my parents where they watched me grow up into a young man. I don’t get to spend too much time at home- I do go back quite a lot but not as much as I’d like. It was quite a bit for them to take in. I actually think in a way it was much harder for them than it was for me, because I’m always around other people during the day. But for my parents, it must have been a very strange thing to suddenly not have me in the house.