Liam Payne has had to go a couple weeks without seeing Bear, his three-year-old, due to safety precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The former One Direction singer spoke about the “complicated” situation in an Instagram Live video on Thursday (Jan. 7), when he shared that he’d been able to have some quality time with his child earlier that day.

“I went and saw Bear today,” said Payne. “We had a little hangout, which was quite nice.”

“I hadn’t seen him in a couple of weeks. It’s hard with the COVID thing ’cause I have to make sure that I’m negative before I go over and see him, so it’s having to wait that couple of days before you can test,” he explained.

“He’s only up the street and it’s dead complicated, but he’s gotten so big. He’s huge,” the proud dad said.

Bear’s mother is Cheryl Cole. Payne and Cole split in 2018, when Bear was one.

Watch Payne talk about Bear in the clip below.