Boy George admits regret over ‘not very nice’ Liam Payne comments

Boy George has spoken astir his comments astir Liam Payne earlier his decease and admitted they weren’t ‘very nice.’

Just implicit a period ago, the beloved popular star died aft suffering a fatal autumn from the third-floor balcony of his edifice suite in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The One Direction member was conscionable 31 years aged and his decease caused immense daze waves arsenic fans mourned the decease of specified a young talent.

The Culture Club singer, 63, revealed successful a caller interrogation that helium regretted the unkind comments astir the vocalist that helium made successful the weeks earlier his death.

‘In the lawsuit of Liam Payne, I’d watched him a fewer days earlier it happened. I retrieve watching online and I’d really enactment a connection nether a station saying “He’s disconnected his nut”, which wasn’t precise nice, but I felt it. I felt similar helium was retired of control.

‘And erstwhile it happened, it conscionable deed me, the aforesaid mode that Amy Winehouse deed me, due to the fact that it felt truthful senseless.’

The singer, whose existent sanction is George O’Dowd,made this confession connected Thursday’s occurrence of the High Performance podcast with Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes.

He besides admitted helium was wholly shocked erstwhile helium heard the news, believing it wasn’t existent astatine first.

‘I was up astatine 5 successful the morning, and it came up connected the American news, and I virtually was similar ‘What the f**k?’ I was virtually similar ‘No, this isn’t real’. I couldn’t instrumentality it in.’

He added: ‘I attraction astir his family. I watched the dad, heartbreaking. I was rather tearful astir it. I really truly felt precise sad.’

At the clip of Payne’s death, George posted a message: ‘How bittersweet is the decease of Liam Payne. Just atrocious quality to aftermath up to. God bless his family. I americium perfectly shocked. R.I.P.’

George and Payne had antecedently had a nationalist disagreement pursuing the 2013 BRIT Awards.

George brought his 13-year-old niece Molly Fitzpatrick to the awards amusement and slammed the precocious vocalist for not taking a photograph with her.

‘Top marks to Harry Styles for stopping for a representation with my niece and B****x’s to Liam and the disrespectful w****r of a minder!’ helium tweeted 9 years ago.

The Strip That Down for Me vocalist replied connected Twitter astatine the clip saying: ‘@BoyGeorge present now lad lets not archer porkies. Firstly acknowledgment for getting my sanction incorrect 3 times, past asking maine wherever is liam?…awkward. Then erstwhile you yet got it close saying you wanted Niall instead.

‘If you would person asked maine for a representation one would person stopped bro I conscionable did what you said and pointed niall retired for you truthful u conscionable support wearing ur unusual hats and bask yourself my small Georgie pie… It’s inactive not chill you conscionable look weird.’

In the podcast interview, Boy George went connected to accidental that his proposal to immoderate young stars successful the manufacture is to get therapy earlier you request it.

‘Get immoderate therapy earlier you request it,’ helium said. ‘I astir apt wouldn’t person done a batch of the things that I did had I had idiosyncratic to speech to. If I’d had idiosyncratic to thatch maine immoderate philosophy, unfastened my caput up astir what I was susceptible of.’

Boy George is acceptable to look connected High Performance connected Thursday, November 21.

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