Liam Payne horrified fans with chilling balcony stunt 10 years before his shock death at 31

Liam Payne antecedently horrified fans with a unsafe balcony stunt — 10 years earlier his daze decease astatine 31.

The One Direction alum died Wednesday aft reportedly falling from a third-floor balcony astatine a edifice successful Buenos Aires, Argentina. Authorities are investigating the circumstances of his decease and volition behaviour an autopsy.

In aftermath of the news, a 2014 photograph has resurfaced online of Payne lasting connected a constrictive ledge connected the 34th level of his East London flat building.

He primitively shared the shocking representation to Twitter (now X) aft a chaotic nighttime of partying successful London for One Direction bandmate Zayn Malik's 21st birthday.

The singer, wearing a plaid garment and achromatic pants, stood conscionable inches distant from the building's edge.

The representation upset One Direction fans arsenic they expressed their fears for Payne's information astatine the time, with galore begging him not to 'jump.' 

One tweeted: 'That photograph of @Real_Liam_Payneon that balcony truly gave maine a mini bosom onslaught ... delight don't bash that again!'

While different wrote: '@Real_Liam_ Payne should halt reasoning he's Batman, erstwhile he's not ... Stop climbing connected your balcony!'

In effect to the instrumentality outcry, Payne issued an apology calling the stunt 'stupid' and 'extremely dangerous.'

'You whitethorn person seen a photograph of maine contiguous taken connected apical of a building. I regret being determination and having a photograph taken,' helium wrote successful a drawstring of tweets.

'It was a anserine and irresponsible happening to do. I americium sorry, and bash not endorse immoderate fans trying to repetition this, arsenic it is highly dangerous.'

The resurfaced photograph comes successful aftermath of reports that Payne was acting erratically and had to beryllium escorted backmost to his edifice country earlier helium plunged to his decease connected Wednesday - with edifice workers making a panicked telephone to police

He fell from the 3rd level of the Casa Sur Palmero edifice successful Buenos Aires, Argentina aft flying into the state to drawback One Direction bandmate Niall Horan's concert.

Hours aft Payne's death, it emerged that constabulary successful Buenos Aires were contacted by a idiosyncratic astatine the edifice who reported 'an assertive antheral who whitethorn person been nether the effects of drugs and alcohol'.

Shortly afterwards, workers heard a large dependable successful the hotel's courtyard earlier the One Direction star's assemblage was discovered conscionable aft 5pm.

According to section media , Liam 'had been acting erratically successful the edifice lobby and smashed his laptop' earlier helium 'had to beryllium carried backmost to his room'.

Police had received a telephone from a idiosyncratic astatine the edifice urgently requesting assistance with an intoxicated guest, according to audio related to the lawsuit obtained from the Buenos Aires information ministry.

'When helium is conscious helium is destroying the full country and we request you to nonstop someone,' the idiosyncratic said.

Emergency aesculapian services manager Alberto Crescenti said Liam had suffered 'very superior injuries aft falling from a 3rd level into an interior courtyard'.

'We verified his individuality utilizing the passport helium had,' helium said.

Mr Crescenti told Argentine paper Clarin that 'the squad saw that helium seemingly had a fracture astatine the basal of the skull'.

His assemblage was transported to a section morgue wherever a post-mortem introspection volition beryllium carried out.

Unverified pictures person since emerged online claiming to beryllium Liam's edifice country wholly trashed with 1 representation showing a smashed tv screen.

Last nighttime tearful fans hugged each different arsenic they gathered and lit candles extracurricular the edifice wherever Liam's assemblage was found.

One pistillate could beryllium seen sitting connected the pavement with her caput successful betwixt her knees.

The Foreign Office confirmed it is successful interaction with authorities successful Argentina 'regarding reports of the decease of a British man'.

TV presenter Dermot O'Leary said Liam's decease was the 'worst news' erstwhile helium paid tribute to the prima past night.

Alongside a photograph of O'Leary and Payne lasting connected signifier together, helium wrote connected Instagram: 'The worst news. I retrieve him arsenic a 14-year-old turning up to audition connected The X Factor, and blowing america distant singing Sinatra. He conscionable loved to sing.

'He was ever a joy, had clip for everyone, polite, grateful, and was ever humble.'

Emergency aesculapian services manager Mr Crescenti said Mr Payne had fallen astir 40metres and suffered 'severe injuries which were incompatible with life'.

He said: 'The alarm was raised astatine 5.04pm section clip saying a idiosyncratic was lying successful an interior patio astatine Casa Sur. 

'At 5.11pm an ambulance arrived and the antheral was certified dead.

'Afterwards we recovered retired helium had been a celebrated singer. Unfortunately the injuries helium had suffered arsenic a effect of the autumn proved to beryllium fatal. There was nary anticipation of resuscitating him.'

The star's last Snapchat station showed him happily posing with his spouse Kate Cassidy arsenic they looked into a reflector - a representation which was primitively taken past August.

Further posts from the last moments of the star's beingness showed him enjoying luncheon successful his edifice room, wherever helium revealed the brace had been 'waking up astatine 1pm each day' and deciding connected Forest Gump arsenic a Halloween costume.

A further tragic selfie was captioned: 'Lovely time successful Argentina' earlier the prima shared a photograph of his hotel, writing: 'Happy I got immoderate clip away' followed by a bosom emoji.

He shared a further photograph with Kate captioned: 'Quality time.'

His decease comes days aft his ex-fiancée May Henry started ineligible proceedings against him.

The Texan model, 23, instructed lawyers to contented a cease and desist missive to the One Direction prima aft accusing him of repeatedly contacting her.

The brunette quality besides accused Liam of obsessively contacting her friends and household including her parent Azteca Henry.

Liam began his pursuit to stardom erstwhile helium initially auditioned for X Factor successful 2008.

At lone 14 years old, Liam impressed judges with his ain mentation of Fly Me To The Moon by Frank Sinatra - but was aboriginal eliminated from the show.

However, Payne gave his singing vocation different spell auditioning for the contention again successful 2010, wherever helium rapidly changeable to fame arsenic portion of One Direction.

He and his erstwhile bandmates Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, were brought unneurotic by Simon Cowell and erstwhile justice Nicole Scherzinger who saw their imaginable arsenic a group.

After conscionable a fewer weeks of getting to cognize each different and non-stop rehearsing, the radical impressed Simon astatine their Judge's Houses audition and sailed done to the unrecorded shows.

The popular Svengali aboriginal admitted to Rolling Stone that it took him 'about a millionth of a second' to spot the group's worldwide potential.

The instrumentality absorption was instant too, with 1D hysteria soon dwarfing the show. Despite the adoration, the set yet finished successful 3rd spot connected the X Factor but soon afterwards Cowell sealed their destiny by signing the fivesome to a reported £2million Syco contract.

Keen to capitalize connected the boys' already devoted fanbase, Cowell moved rapidly with signaling for the band's debut medium opening successful January 2011.

By September of that twelvemonth One Direction's archetypal azygous was released with What Makes You Beautiful soaring to fig 1 connected the UK Singles Chart, aft becoming the astir pre-ordered Sony Music Entertainment azygous successful history.

Their debut album, Up All Night was besides a champion seller, becoming the UK's fastest-selling debut medium of 2011, with the grounds starring to their archetypal circuit which kicked disconnected successful the UK that December.

After Malik announced his departure from the set successful 2015, the set members went their abstracted ways.

During their clip arsenic a group, One Direction won 5 Brit Awards, 4 MTV Video Music Awards, amassed implicit 3 cardinal YouTube views and sold 50 cardinal records worldwide.

After releasing 5 albums with 1 of the biggest boybands of each time, Liam released his archetypal solo medium titled LP1 successful 2019.

His singles Strip That Down co-written with Ed Sheeran climbed its mode to fig 10 connected the Billboard Hot 100 illustration that aforesaid year.

Over the people of his euphony career, the popstar collaborated with the likes of J Balvin, French Montana, Dixie D'Amelio and A Boogie Wit da Hoodie.