Liam Payne flew into a rage and smashed up his laptop after receiving mystery email - before plunging to his death from hotel balcony

Liam Payne received an email that caused him to alert into a rage and smash his laptop conscionable minutes earlier helium died, 1 of the past women who saw live has claimed.

The tragic One Direction prima opened the email and shouted 'f*** this s**t mate!' and broke his laptop, a young pistillate told MailOnline.

She was staying astatine at the aforesaid edifice arsenic Liam, the Casa Sur edifice successful Palermo, erstwhile she had what she called a ‘disturbing’ tally successful with the One Direction prima - conscionable minutes earlier helium fell to his decease from his balcony connected the 3rd floor.

In her compelling account, Rebecca, not her existent name, said she had seen the popular prima lying connected sofa successful the lobby speechmaking done his emails, earlier becoming visibly upset and declaring: ‘I utilized to beryllium successful a lad set - that’s wherefore I americium truthful f***ed up’.

‘He opened his emails and saw 1 which evidently upset him,’ Rebecca, 28, exclusively told MailOnline. ‘Suddenly helium took the computer, shouted “f**k this s**t mate!” and started bashing the machine connected the ground.’

Less than fractional an hr later, ambulances and constabulary had arrived, aft the prima had plunged 45ft from a balcony connected the hotel's courtyard.

It is chartless astatine contiguous who had sent the email oregon what its contents were, however, it came amid a pugnacious play for the popstar.

A mobile and laptop from his edifice country person been seized by constabulary who are to  analyse the devices for clues.

Just 2 weeks ago, helium was dropped by his grounds statement Universal Music, putting an extremity to his plans for a 2nd solo album.

And connected Monday, his ex-finance Maya James, who claimed the prima had ‘predicted helium would dice early’, started ineligible proceedings against Payne, accusing him of obsessively contacting her and 'weaponising' his fans against her.

It came aft the 23-year-old Texan exemplary had already served the vocalist cease and desist papers past week aft accusing him of repeatedly contacting her and her family.

Guests staying astatine the luxury edifice successful the Argentinian superior are inactive reeling from the tragedy, with galore recalling the chilling moments earlier Payne’s death.

Rebecca, an IT advisor from Washington DC, took haunting photographs of Payne successful the lobby soon earlier the unspeakable incident. She said his bizarre behaviour and its horrific aftermath had near her 'shaken'.

The 28-year-old had a astonishment 30-minute agelong brushwood with Payne took spot successful the foyer of the hotel, wherever she was staying for a wedding. Payne had been owed to cheque retired connected Wednesday morning, but inactive had not done truthful by precocious afternoon, she claimed.

Rebecca took her photos from 4.26pm section clip (8.26pm UK time) - which is besides erstwhile Payne made the 'boy band' comment. Just 36 minutes later, edifice unit raised the alarm astatine 5.04pm pursuing Payne's fall. An ambulance arrived astatine 5.11pm and Payne was past certified dead.

She told MailOnline successful an exclusive interview: 'One of my friends was owed to get his suite, truthful the edifice unit were a small connected borderline due to the fact that helium inactive hadn't checked retired astatine 4.30pm, but besides due to the fact that of his behaviour.

'I came into the hotel, and helium was waiting by the elevator, and it was truthful wide helium wanted idiosyncratic to recognise him, determination was thing a spot hopeless astir him.

'I was with my friends and we did cognize who helium was, but nary of america were that bothered.

'When the assistance came helium abruptly said to america without immoderate prompting: 'Yes, I'm Liam!' truly drafting it out, and past said 'All close travel connected you lot, get successful the elevator with me, I emotion a cuddle'.

'I decided against it and waited for the adjacent one, but immoderate of the different girls got successful with him and fractional mode up, helium started saying 'Oh, you're Americans, I unrecorded successful West Palm Beach.

'I cognize Americans. You guys are f***ing crazy! You guys are f***ing dangerous!

'And past helium grabs a miss who I deliberation was with him and starts fake choking her, lone lightly, but the others thought it was truly disturbing.'

Rebecca said she returned to the lobby 10 minutes aboriginal and soon afterwards, Payne arrived back, dangling his unfastened laptop nonchalantly from 1 corner.

He past began speechmaking emails aft flopping onto a sofa, wearing a achromatic vest, cargo pants and trainers.

'I person a unsighted comparative and I realised helium had the laptop connected its accessibility setting, for immoderate reason, truthful that each clip helium moved the mouse, hovering implicit thing the instrumentality spoke retired large to accidental wherever the cursor was,' said Rebecca.

'I assumed helium was doing that for the attraction too. Then helium opened his emails and saw 1 which evidently upset him. Suddenly helium took the computer, shouted 'f**k this s**t mate!' and started bashing the machine connected the ground.

Everyone, particularly the unit was truly shocked. It's a high-end edifice and his behaviour was truthful retired of spot - radical were conscionable chilling.

'I went over, asked 'are you OK?' But helium conscionable benignant of grunted. Then helium said 'I utilized to beryllium successful a boyband. That's wherefore I'm truthful f**ked up.'

'I couldn't judge he'd conscionable travel retired and said thing similar that. There was a batch much swearing and helium took the laptop implicit and went to get backmost successful the lift.

'After he'd gone, the British feline from his entourage, who I deliberation was called Roger, came implicit and apologised connected his behalf, saying 'I'm sorry, helium conscionable gets truthful precocious sometimes'.

'I did wonderment what these radical with him were doing to assistance him, but possibly they had tried and failed. The edifice unit were freaking retired and watching him truly nervously. I could spot 1 of them was connected the telephone to what I assumed was information oregon the police.

'I've ne'er taken cocaine, but helium was behaving precisely arsenic I'd ideate idiosyncratic would connected the cause – helium wasn't focusing, and his pupils were dilated, and helium was behaving successful assertive mode – though not to anyone successful particular.'

Rebecca couldn't enactment retired wherefore Payne was hanging astir the lobby but wondered afterwards whether helium was readying to conscionable idiosyncratic to resupply his drugs.

Then aft a fewer minutes, helium returned to the lobby, she recalled.

Rebecca said: 'He walked successful again and conscionable tripped and fell level connected his face, sprawling crossed the floor. The unit came to assistance him and get him backmost successful the elevator, and that's erstwhile I took the past photo.

'You tin conscionable spot the limb of the English feline who was with him, holding the assistance doorway unfastened earlier taking them up to the 3rd level again.

'It wasn't agelong aft that erstwhile the constabulary arrived and initially we thought they were conscionable going to footwear him out, but past erstwhile the unit started moving astir similar crazy, we abruptly realised the seriousness of what had happened.

'Some of my friends had seen him falling, it was awful, and astatine archetypal they thought helium mightiness person conscionable injured himself, but past we saw the assemblage retired successful the courtyard, and aboriginal they brought him retired connected a stretcher, it was each truthful horrible.'

Rebecca said that aft the horrific experience, she spent Wednesday nighttime with friends distant from the hotel, partially due to the fact that of what had happened, but besides the sound of teenage fans extracurricular successful the thoroughfare singing and crying.

She added: 'They were playing his euphony each nighttime and idiosyncratic really brought on a Ouija committee to effort and pass with Liam, it was crazy.'

Payne, who roseate to fame with One Direction connected The X Factor, died aft falling from a 3rd level balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel connected Wednesday.

He 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', 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 the years helium spent with Payne 'will everlastingly stay among the astir cherished years of my life.'

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

Payne's 'greatest joyousness was making different radical happy, and it was an honour to beryllium alongside him arsenic helium did it', Styles wrote.

'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.'

'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.

Among those paying tribute was Camila Cabello, who roseate to fame connected the US mentation of The X Factor successful 2012 aft forming the miss radical Fifth Harmony.

'Thank you Liam for each the joyousness you brought my friends and I' she wrote connected Instagram. 'It truly made an content connected maine arsenic a young miss to conscionable a subordinate of a radical I loved and person him beryllium truthful kind.

'It's a calamity to person him gone mode excessively soon.'

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.

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