Harry Styles mourns Liam Payne: ‘I will miss him always, my lovely friend’

Harry Styles said the years helium spent with his One Direction set mate Liam Payne “will everlastingly stay among the astir cherished years of my life” pursuing the singer’s decease astatine 31.

Payne, who roseate to fame with the lad set connected The X Factor, died aft falling from a 3rd level balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel successful the Argentine superior Buenos Aires connected Wednesday.

“I volition miss him always, my beauteous friend,” three-time Grammy victor Styles said successful a connection connected Instagram.

Payne died of aggregate traumas and “internal and outer haemorrhage”, a post-mortem introspection study said.

Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No 16 said it was investigating the incidental arsenic an “inconclusive death” pursuing the report.

Payne’s household said they were “heartbroken” pursuing his death, adding: “Liam volition everlastingly unrecorded successful our hearts and we’ll retrieve him for his kind, comic and brave soul.”

A associated connection from his One Direction bandmates said they were “completely devastated” and volition miss the vocalist “terribly”, adding the “memories we shared with him volition beryllium treasured forever”.

In a abstracted statement, Styles said Payne’s “greatest joyousness was making different radical happy, and it was an honour to beryllium alongside him arsenic helium did it”.

“Liam lived wide open, with his bosom connected his sleeve, helium had an vigor for beingness that was infectious,” helium said.

“He was warm, supportive, and incredibly loving.

“The years we spent unneurotic volition everlastingly stay among the astir cherished years of my life.”

Styles said his “heart breaks” for Payne’s household and his seven-year-old lad Bear, who helium shared with his erstwhile partner, Girls Aloud vocalist Cheryl.

Fellow One Direction prima Louis Tomlinson vowed to beryllium an uncle to Payne’s lad successful a abstracted Instagram statement.

“I privation you to cognize that if Bear ever needs maine I volition beryllium the uncle helium needs successful his beingness and archer him stories of however astonishing his dada was,” the 32-year-old said.

Tomlinson said Payne was “the astir captious portion of One Direction”, describing his “perfect pitch, his signifier presence, (and) his acquisition for writing”.

“I’m truthful grateful that we got adjacent person since the band, speaking connected the telephone for hours, reminiscing astir each the thousands of astonishing memories we had unneurotic is simply a luxury I thought I’d person with you for life,” helium said.

“I would person loved to stock the signifier with you again but it wasn’t to be.”

Tomlinson said helium and Payne had planned to get “back successful the workplace unneurotic to effort and recreate the penning chemistry we had built up successful the band”, adding that helium wished helium had the “chance to accidental goodbye” to “one of my champion friends”.

Both Tomlinson and erstwhile One Direction prima Zayn Malik said they had “lost a brother”.

Malik, who near the set successful 2015 citing the request to person “some backstage clip retired of the spotlight” earlier embarking connected a solo career, thanked Payne for “supporting maine done immoderate of the astir hard times successful my life” successful a abstracted station connected Instagram.

“When I was missing location arsenic a 17 yr aged kid you would ever beryllium determination with a affirmative outlook and reassuring grin and fto maine cognize you were my person and that I was loved,” helium said.

Malik said helium “butted heads” with Payne astatine times due to the fact that helium was “headstrong” and “opinionated”, but “always secretly respected” him for it.

“I volition cherish each the memories I person with you successful my bosom forever, determination is nary words that warrant oregon explicate however I consciousness close present different than beyond devastated,” the 31-year-old added.

After Payne’s death, 5 witnesses were questioned successful bid to reconstruct what happened, the prosecutor’s bureau said.

Reports said unit astatine the edifice made 2 calls to exigency services with audio revealing a unit subordinate had asked for assistance for a impermanent who was “intoxicated by drugs and alcohol”.

Police successful the superior said the euphony star’s edifice country had been “in implicit disarray” with “various items broken” – adding that a whiskey bottle, lighter and mobile telephone had been retrieved from the interior edifice courtyard wherever Payne’s assemblage was found.

One Direction fans mourned his decease astatine a vigil extracurricular the Argentine edifice wherever they lit candles and laid flowers.

The set toured crossed the globe and had 5 chart-topping albums, arsenic good arsenic 4 fig 1 singles successful the UK illustration with tracks including What Makes You Beautiful and Little Things.

Payne, who was calved successful Wolverhampton, released his debut solo medium LP1 successful December 2019, which included the songs Polaroid and Strip That Down featuring Quavo.

One of his astir celebrated songs, For You, was a collaboration betwixt him and the vocalist Rita Ora for the movie Fifty Shades Freed successful 2018.

Hours aft his death, Ora sang their opus portion an representation of the brace was projected connected to the surface down her during a show successful Osaka, Japan.