Liam Payne: Fans pore over his final days as cause of death revealed

One Direction fans astir the satellite are mourning Liam Payne, sharing memories and tributes to the vocalist aft his shocking decease connected Wednesday.

Payne, 31, died aft helium fell from the third-floor balcony of the CasaSur Hotel successful Buenos Aires, Argentina. Paramedics arrived astatine the scene, but Payne suffered “extremely superior injuries,” including a skull fracture, section wellness officials said. Resuscitation was not possible.

An autopsy report released Thursday revealed Payne died of aggregate superior injuries and “internal and outer bleeding” arsenic a effect of the balcony fall. The study alleged that alcohol, drugs and destroyed furnishings were discovered successful Payne’s edifice room.

Before his death, a edifice worker contacted section exigency services to study a impermanent who had “overindulged connected drugs and alcohol.” Though the worker ne'er identified Payne by name, a transcript of the call said unit requested urgent assistance astir a impermanent “breaking” things successful their room.

The edifice worker told 911 they were “afraid” the unnamed antheral “might bash thing life-threatening” due to the fact that determination was a balcony successful his suite.

Payne’s assemblage was recovered successful the hotel’s courtyard. TMZ was the archetypal North American outlet to study quality of his decease and shared respective cropped photos of Payne’s assemblage — a determination highly criticized by fans and celebrities alike, who person accused the tabloid of being “morally decrepit.” TMZ has since removed the photos from sum of Payne’s death.

Since then, speculation and misinformation surrounding the singer’s decease person swirled online, including a bogus video of a antheral purported to beryllium Payne falling from a model circulating connected societal media.

Argentinian authorities bash not judge Payne’s decease is suspicious and are continuing to investigate.

Liam Payne’s last days

Two weeks up of his death, Payne attended a stadium performance for his chap One Direction bandmate Niall Horan successful Argentina.

Payne engaged with fans from a backstage container successful the arena and danced on to the pre-show playlist. Recordings of the prima astatine Horan’s amusement went viral connected societal media and brought connected wide disapproval and cyberbullying for Payne, who immoderate claimed was seeking attention.

In a video up of the show, Payne said connected Snapchat that helium was hoping to speech to Horan aft the performance “to quadrate up a mates of things.”

“No atrocious vibes oregon thing similar that,” helium clarified. “But conscionable we request to talk.”

The erstwhile lad banders reunited backstage, and Payne posted a photograph with Horan to his Snapchat relationship connected Oct. 2.

Payne’s woman Kate Cassidy shared an edited video of compiled footage of the mates and their friends astatine Horan’s show.

Payne and Cassidy stayed successful South America to abrogation aft attending Horan’s concert.

He documented overmuch of his travel connected societal media. On Snapchat, Payne shared footage of himself and Cassidy relaxing successful Argentina and discussed mundanities similar playing h2o polo, horseback riding and his costume plans for Halloween this year.

His last societal media station was to Snapchat. In the photo, helium and Cassidy are posed for a reflector selfie successful their swimwear, though it is unclear erstwhile the photograph was taken.

Cassidy said successful a TikTok post Monday that she was “so excited” to permission South America and instrumentality to the U.S. She documented her question home, though Payne stayed down successful Argentina.

Cassidy regularly posted videos to societal media featuring Payne, often showing disconnected their outfits oregon sharing footage from a date. As of this writing, she has not commented publically connected Payne’s death.

In the weeks starring up to his death, Payne was reportedly served a cease-and-desist from his ex-fiancée, Maya Henry, who alleged Payne had repeatedly contacted her.

Henry published a publication called Looking Forward in May. The penning is “inspired by existent events” and tells the communicative of a hopeful exemplary who falls successful emotion with a lad set member.

In an interrogation with People magazine, Henry said she had “very similar” experiences to the book’s main character, including suffering complications during an abortion. Henry’s publication quality is encouraged not to question attraction for hemorrhaging during an termination implicit fearfulness of being spotted publically and opening tabloid speculation.

Payne and Henry got engaged successful 2020 but called disconnected the plans successful April 2022.

In a TikTok video posted Oct. 6, Henry said Payne regularly contacted her from antithetic telephone numbers and emails successful the years aft their breakup. She said Payne would besides often interaction her parent and “blow up” her phone.

During a podcast quality this week, earlier Payne’s death, Henry tried to clarify the enactment betwixt information and fabrication successful her publication and said she “just wanted to archer her story.”

Fans stitchery to retrieve Liam Payne

Outside the CasaSur Hotel connected Wednesday night, emotions were precocious arsenic fans gathered to airy candles and softly sing One Direction songs.

Hundreds of teary-eyed fans surrounded the Palermo-region edifice arsenic quality of the singer’s decease was breaking. They watched arsenic constabulary blocked disconnected the roadworthy and entrances to the edifice amid their investigation.

Like each members of One Direction, the erstwhile boyband subordinate had legions of dedicated fans. As helium had risen rapidly to specified aggravated levels of fame astatine 16 years old, galore of Payne’s admirers adored him passim their childhoods and were often of akin property to the star.

As Payne’s assemblage was taken distant successful a reddish firefighter van, the assemblage applauded portion different fans wept.

Payne was discovered connected the U.K. singing contention amusement The X Factor in 2010, wherever helium sang a screen of Michael Bublé’s mentation of Cry Me a River. Payne auditioned for the amusement 2 years earlier but was eliminated.

Though helium auditioned arsenic a solo act, the judges, including Simon Cowell, enactment Payne successful an all-boys radical called One Direction. The boyband would spell connected to scope unthinkable heights of planetary fame and success.

Until One Direction announced its hiatus successful 2015, Payne’s look could commonly beryllium recovered plastered connected the chamber walls of teenage girls astir the world.

He went connected to nutrient euphony arsenic a solo artist, including the songs Strip That Down (feat. Quavo) and For You (With Rita Ora).

Payne’s solo vocation was marred with contention and idiosyncratic struggles with sobriety successful caller years.

He faced aggravated backlash past twelvemonth aft a impermanent quality connected YouTuber Logan Paul’s podcast Impaulsive.

Payne, portion drinking whisky, spoke negatively astir his acquisition successful One Direction, said helium and subordinate Louis Tomlinson despised 1 different to the constituent of carnal arguments and accused different bandmate of “throwing him up against a wall” up of a concert.

Payne aboriginal expressed regret implicit the interrogation and said successful a 2023 YouTube video that helium “became idiosyncratic helium didn’t admit anymore.”

He said helium was “angry astatine what was going connected astir me” and took retired his frustrations connected others. Payne said he’d since attended rehab and was astir six months sober.

“The remainder of the boys truly stuck by maine erstwhile I needed them most, they benignant of came to the rescue,” helium said of his erstwhile set members. “Even Zayn, arsenic well, which is wherefore I did nonstop him a small convey you online. It came crossed truly big-headed, didn’t it?”

Tributes to Liam Payne

The different members of One Direction — Horan, Tomlinson, Harry Styles and Zayn Malik — person yet to remark publically astir Payne.

In a connection to the BBC, Payne’s household said they are “heartbroken” by his death.

“Liam volition everlastingly unrecorded successful our hearts and we’ll retrieve him for his kind, comic and brave soul,” the connection reads. “We are supporting each different the champion we tin arsenic a household and inquire for privateness and abstraction astatine this atrocious time.”

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Payne had a seven-year-old son, Bear Grey Payne, with erstwhile woman and instrumentalist Cheryl Cole, 41. She served connected the X Factor judges sheet during Payne’s audition successful 2010.

He is besides survived by his parents, Geoff and Karen Payne, and his 2 older sisters, Ruth and Nicola.

Styles’ mother, Anne Twist, expressed upset connected societal media connected Wednesday night. She shared a photograph of a breached bosom emoji and wrote that Payne was “Just a boy.”

English singer-songwriter Katie Waissel, who met Payne portion on The X Factor, said Payne offered “unwavering enactment during immoderate of my darkest moments” connected the show.

She called connected grounds companies and euphony executives, namely Cowell, who signed One Direction, to amended “prioritize the affectional and carnal payment of the artists who enactment their spot successful these institutions.”

On X, The Backstreet Boys said “words tin not explicit the emotions” the corporate bandmembers felt astatine the quality of Payne’s death.

“Our hearts spell retired to Liam’s family, friends, and Directioners astir the world,” the set wrote.

British vocalist Olly Murs excessively was “lost for words.” In a station to Instagram, Murs said helium was wounded to spot Payne’s “life present extremity truthful young.”

“I americium genuinely gutted and devastated for his Family and of people his lad Bear losing a dad,” Murs wrote.

Singer Charlie Puth shared a photograph of him and Payne to Instagram connected Wednesday night.

On his story, Puth said helium was successful “shock” implicit the quality of Payne’s death.

“Liam was ever truthful benignant to me,” helium wrote. “He was 1 of the archetypal large artists I got to enactment with…I’m truthful upset close now, whitethorn helium remainder successful peace.”

German euphony shaper Zedd and Paris Hilton besides expressed regret implicit Payne’s abrupt death, and Hilton sent good wishes to his family.