Boy George regrets comments about Liam Payne days before death

English singer Boy George has revealed helium regrets societal media comments helium made astir Liam Payne conscionable days earlier the erstwhile One Direction subordinate died astatine property 31.

The Culture Club frontman admitted helium made a remark that “wasn’t precise nice” astir Payne, who was laid to remainder successful a private ceremonial service connected Wednesday, astir a period aft helium died successful Buenos Aires.

“In the lawsuit of Liam Payne, I’d watched him a fewer days earlier it happened,” helium confessed connected the latest occurrence of the “High Performance” podcast. “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.”

Upon proceeding the tragic quality of Payne’s fatal autumn from a edifice balcony connected Oct. 16, Boy George said it brought backmost memories of the untimely decease of Amy Winehouse astatine the property of 27 successful 2011.

“When it happened, it conscionable deed me, the aforesaid mode that Amy Winehouse deed me, due to the fact that it felt truthful senseless,” helium told hosts Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes. “I was virtually similar ‘No, this isn’t real.’ I couldn’t instrumentality it in.”

On the podcast episode, released the same time arsenic Payne’s funeral, the 63-year-old “Karma Chameleon” vocalist said helium cares for Payne’s household and watched his begetter publically grieve his decease — describing it arsenic “heartbreaking.”

“I was rather tearful astir it,” Boy George said. “I really truly felt precise sad.”

The British musicians antecedently had a enactment successful 2013 aft Boy George accused Payne connected societal media of snubbing his 13-year-old niece astatine the BRIT Awards.