Scott Mills reveals heartwarming message from Liam Payne’s grieving dad

Liam Payne’s dada has reached retired to Scott Mills aft fans rushed to connection condolences aft the daze decease of the One Direction legend.

Payne died past week aged 31 after falling from a edifice balcony successful Buenos Aires, Argentina, portion reportedly on a concoction of drugs though nary authoritative toxicology results person been published yet.

In the aftermath, calls for amended mental health support for artists have been gaining momentum with astir 50,000 signing a petition for ‘Liam’s Law’.

The nationalist mourning astir Payne’s decease has touched the Night Changes singer’s family, with his begetter Geoff reaching retired to Scott successful response.

Scott, 51, told his Radio 2 listeners: ‘He won’t caput maine saying this, I was texting Geoff, Liam’s dad, the different time erstwhile helium was successful Argentina and helium said helium has posted our tribute we did to Liam past week to the household WhatsApp group.’

The DJ had posted an affectional tribute to Payne connected his societal media, including re-airing a missive the precocious vocalist had written to his 10-year-old self.

Fans commented thousands of heartfelt messages to the household with chap One Direction star Louis Tomlinson besides liking the post.

Scott continued: ‘He thought it was wonderful, particularly each of the messages and comments you enactment underneath the video connected the Radio 2 Instagram.

‘He conscionable wanted maine to convey you each for each the beauteous heartfelt messages that you person enactment connected there. He’s work each of them. 

‘And for him to scope retired and accidental convey you similar that during specified a hard clip wherever him and each of Liam’s adjacent ones volition beryllium hurting truthful overmuch conscionable shows you what I’ve known each along. .. What a benignant household they are.

‘So, sending you each our emotion Geoff to you and the remainder of the family. And to each his friends. We’re each inactive reasoning of you.’

In his ain on-air tribute, Scott discussed however helium felt similar the ‘sixth subordinate of One Direction’ owed to however overmuch clip helium spent with the radical portion astatine Radio 1.

He broke down, sharing it was a ‘really hard 1 to instrumentality in’ and added helium ‘can’t carnivore that this is wherever Liam’s communicative has ended’.

‘I had truthful overmuch amusive with One Direction, arsenic a batch of you volition know, implicit the years and their memories volition enactment with maine for life, and Liam was specified a large portion of it,’ Scott said.

Geoff has flown retired to Argentina arsenic the probe is ongoing, with Associated Press reporting that a typical of the Public Prosecutor’s Office has informed him that the results of the toxicology and histopathological study would beryllium needed to determine erstwhile his son’s assemblage would beryllium released.

Police successful Buenos Aires person said a preliminary autopsy suggests Payne died from aggregate injuries that led to ‘internal and outer haemorrhaging’ after falling from his edifice country balcony.

Fans person been mourning Payne astatine the Casa Sur edifice wherever helium died, leaving flowers, gifts, and assorted tributes outside.

While successful Argentina, Geoff stopped to work the messages with the gathered mourners attempting to shield him from cameras to alteration a infinitesimal of privacy.

Payne’s household issued a connection aft the daze news, telling PA: ‘We are heartbroken. Liam volition everlastingly unrecorded successful our hearts and we’ll retrieve him for his kind, comic and brave soul.

‘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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