Kimberley opens up about Cheryl’s pain

CHERYL TWEEDY finds ex Liam Payne’s regular absences from their family life “hard”, according to her best pal Kimberley Walsh. Cheryl, 35, and pop star Liam, 24, announced the end of their two-and-a-half year relationship last week. And as Day & Night exclusively reported, Liam’s missing of key events, including Father’s Day and their son Bear’s first birthday, contributed to the relationship breakdown. Now her former Girls Aloud bandmate Kimberley, on the right in our picture, tells this week’s OK! magazine of Cheryl’s struggle. “She’s doing great but I guess it’s just hard, isn’t it? “When you have a baby your whole being and whole life changes and his career obviously takes him out of the country for long periods, so it is hard.”

Mum-of-two Kimberley says her schedule also means that she hasn’t been able to see her friend as often as she’d like. She adds: “Cheryl and I try and get the kids together. I wish we could do it more but it’s hard with our schedules.”

As we also exclusively reported last week, former X Factor judge Cheryl is also behind many tracks from Liam’s imminent solo album debut being scrapped or rewritten. She made an uneasy truce with him to leave specifics of their personal lives and 15-month-old Bear off the album.

However, Cheryl is also said to be working on new material and has assured Liam that she too wouldn’t go into private details of their relationship.