Liam Payne’s mental health struggles: His own comments on rehab, drugs and alcohol abuse

Today, the ceremonial of Liam Payne volition beryllium taking place, 1 period aft his tragic decease connected October 16.

Payne, 31, died successful Argentina aft constabulary were called to the edifice successful which helium was staying. The vocalist had been behaving erratically; successful a telephone to the exigency services, edifice workers said that helium had “had excessively galore drugs and intoxicant and, well, erstwhile helium is conscious, helium is trashing the full room.”

When they arrived, they recovered Payne had fallen disconnected the third-floor balcony of his edifice room.

In a statement, Alberto Crescenti, caput of the Buenos Aires’ nationalist exigency aesculapian services, said that helium fell astir 14 metres and suffered “very superior injuries incompatible with life.”

Payne shot to fame in boyband One Direction successful 2010 aft being paired with Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles successful contention The X Factor. He was lone 16 astatine the time, and successful interviews helium gave afterwards helium was unfastened astir the interaction fame had connected his intelligence health.

As aboriginal arsenic 2019, helium told Men’s Heath Australia that helium had recovered his newfound occurrence hard to woody with and often reached for intoxicant arsenic a mode to cope.

“It's astir similar putting the Disney costume connected earlier you measurement up connected signifier and underneath the Disney costume I was pissed rather a batch of the clip due to the fact that determination was nary different mode to get your caput astir what was going on,” helium said.

“I mean, it was fun. We had an implicit blast, but determination were definite parts of it wherever it conscionable got a small spot toxic.”

That toxicity was addressed successful much item connected his infamous interrogation with YouTuber Logan Paul successful 2022, successful which Payne described however helium astir “came to blows” with different bandmate backstage.

“There was 1 infinitesimal wherever determination was an statement backstage and 1 member, successful particular, threw maine up a wall. So I said to him, ‘If you don’t region those hands there’s a precocious likelihood you’ll ne'er usage them again'," helium said.

He besides added that determination were “many reasons” helium disliked erstwhile bandmate Zayn Malik, and that helium and Louis Tomlinson had primitively “hated each other” earlier becoming friends.

That interrogation was wide mocked by fans and commentators, but it gives an penetration into Payne’s caput astatine the clip – and helium addressed those comments a fewer years later, saying those comments had been made successful a "scramble to enactment relevant". He besides confessed that though helium regretted what he’d said, it was a "life-changing moment, that saved my beingness successful a way."

Payne was besides unfastened astir his struggles successful dealing with substance abuse.

Speaking connected the Diary of a CEO podcast successful 2021, Payne told big Stephen Bartlett that helium had struggled with “severe suicidal thoughts” and dense cause usage portion helium was successful the band.

“I was disquieted however acold my stone bottommost was going to be,” helium said successful the interview. “Where's stone bottommost for me? And you would ne'er person seen it. I'm precise bully astatine hiding it. No 1 would ever person seen it.

“There is immoderate worldly that I person decidedly never, ne'er spoken about… it was really, really, truly severe. And it was a problem. And it was lone until I saw myself aft that, I was similar ‘Right, I request to hole myself.’”

During the interview, Payne besides talked astir seeing pictures of himself connected a vessel looking “all bloated out” with what helium called his “pills-and-booze face.”

“My look was just, like, 10 times much than it is now. I conscionable didn't similar myself precise much, and past I made a change,” helium said, adding that erstwhile helium was successful One Direction, helium utilized to down the contents of the edifice minibars that the band’s managers would cheque them into to debar fans. “The time the set ended, I was like, 'Thank the Lord.’ I cognize a batch of radical are going to beryllium huffy astatine maine for saying that, but I needed to halt oregon it would termination me."

He followed that up with an announcement successful July 2023 that helium had conscionable spent 100 days successful a rehab installation successful Louisiana, to get assistance for his struggles with alcohol.

“Turning the telephone backmost connected was a small spot scary,” helium said successful a video to his fans. “I've been trying to larn to get to cognize this caller guy.”

He added that his erstwhile One Direction bandmates had “stuck by me” and “came to my rescue”, arsenic good arsenic his erstwhile woman Cheryl for her support.

Despite that, Payne’s ex-fiancee Maya Henry besides described however Payne’s intelligence wellness had chemoreceptor dived successful caller weeks. She issued a cease and desist successful the week starring up to his death, and successful a caller TikTok video said that Payne would “blow up her phone” with messages aft they broke up.

“It’s ever from antithetic telephone numbers too, truthful I ne'er cognize wherever it’s gonna travel from,” she added. “He’ll make caller iCloud accounts to connection maine – it’s ever a caller damn iCloud account. Every clip I spot 1 popular up connected my telephone I’m like, ‘here we f***ing spell again.’

 “Also, helium volition email me… not lone me, but he’ll stroke up my mom’s phone. Is this mean behaviour to you?”