Liam Payne is Dead To Me

Liam Payne is dead after a fall from his hotel balcony in Argentina ... TMZ has learned.

The former One Direction singer died Wednesday evening. Several witnesses at the hotel where he was staying in Buenos Aires tell us Liam fell from his room on the 3rd floor of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel. We do not know if it was intentional or accidental.

TMZ obtained a photo showing Liam's body on a wooden deck at the hotel with tables and chairs nearby. We're not showing the whole body, but you can clearly see his tattoos -- a clock on his left forearm, and a scorpion on his abdomen.

Witnesses say this happened shortly after 5 PM in Buenos Aires ... and that Liam had been acting erratic in the hotel lobby earlier -- he smashed his laptop, and had to be carried back to his room.

OMG! That is the most shocking one so far this year. Gulp. RIP

What's new, Buenos Aires?

ZOMG!

I didn't know he was Russian!

The Directioners are going to collectively have the world's most dramatic nervous breakdown

This is not the October Surprise people had in mind. Wow, I'm still clutching my pearls. Those poor 1D fans!

Well, gravity is one direction.

"Fell". It has to be a suicide.

Poor Cheryl!

Stand back, Buenos Aires

Because you oughta know whatcha gonna get in me

Just a little touch of star quality

Soho? Or Hollywood?

If it was a suicide, that is sad.

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina

Well, at least he is no longer in Payne!

They're saying he was just posting on Snapchat within the past hour or two, but maybe it was automated.

Third floor was enough to kill him? Damn...

One Direction

Down.

Those were some not-so buenos aires as he was falling.

Shame. But he seemed…directionless (pun intended) since the band broke up. He never seemed to know what to do with himself or who to be.

Horrible - so young. Wow.

Probably suicide. His ex was suing him for harassing her, so maybe he just checked out. His life was a mess.

Or he was on drugs. Or both.

No more Payne.

Liam posted this an hr ago. Now, he's a goner.

That's a hard 31.

Well, I guess now it's a splatted 31.

He had a habit of doing stupid shit, he once climbed out on the ledge of his apartment building, something like 30 storeys up

When I saw it on my phone, I genuinely gasped. Then immediately thought of this. Truly sad.

It’s unlikely someone jumped from a third floor balcony to commit suicide

Most people would live falling off the third floor.

[quote] Earlier this week, there were reports about Liam's ex-fiancée Maya Henry alleging he'd left her after asking her to get an abortion. Her attorneys had been trying to send him a cease-and-desist letter to stop contacting her.

Mission accomplished.

shucks, he was the only handsome one in the group

He fell from the third floor? WHAT A LOSER.

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That's so sad. He seemed to be dealing with some mental issues the last few years but maybe it's an accident? Could it be he's high or drunk and slipped?

As psycho as 1D fans can be, his ex might want to consider going into deep, deep hiding. For like ever.^^

what is this showing? I can’t see a body.

Third floor can be pretty high, especially if there's pavement below. Suicide seems likely but reckless behavior could be the cause too. This is a Matthew Perry level shocking death. He's internationally cherished by many.

[quote] It’s unlikely someone jumped from a third floor balcony to commit suicide

Sounds like he was drunk and possibly on something else, behaving erratically... I doubt he was thinking clearly.

R12 Hollywood

I always thought Zayn would be the first 1D guy to go.

Stay strong, Zayn.

RIP Liam. You would’ve been the one I had a crush on if 1D was around when I was a tween.

What a waste. I know he was allegedly on drugs. How reckless.

Simon Cowell was so upset his face melted

Wow, he was just using Snapchat just few hours ago. Shocking! There's still people who use Snapchat?

Definitely one of the hotter members of 1D, RIP sweet prince

I guess his one direction was down.

Drunk folk and balconies....

And Liza is still alive

He believed he could fly.

Letsh play canashta!!!!

Pnp went wrong

[quote]cease-and-desist

He must have misread that as decease and desist.

Was it Israel? Was Liam about to call for a ceasefire?

Or maybe it was P Diddy?

It happens.

He seemed to be getting a lot of heat online for things he said and did. He was such an innocent geek that first year on X factor when they told him to come back another year when he was older...which he did and the rest is history. Robin Williams said Drugs was natures way of telling you you had too much money. He did seem very lost.

"I'm so bored I could die!"

What was on his VCR?

Thank God it wasn’t Harry or Louis or Niall or Zayn instead!

Have any of the Larries commented?

Another kill for Fauci.

FFS r58 get real.

This one was definitely a shocker.

The 1D guys seem like they would live forever.

He was so young.

He had to be carried up to his room earlier? If someone is that erratic should they be left in the room alone - or maybe he did have a hanger on in the room. He was clearly high as fuck. Sad.

R59 “/s”

I should think the Robbie Willians film will have to put off its release until next year.

There was someone on Reddit recently claiming he had responded to an underage fan something like "wanna suck me?" In a DM exchange. No idea from when it was but it sounded recent. Maybe he was on the verge of being cancelled and that contributed to something. Who knows.

The British tabloids live for this type of story.

I am a Larry Shipper, a Larry believer if you will.

Will Sir Elton be reprising “Candle in the Wind” at the televised funeral?

I forgot that he has a young son, with UK warbler Cheryl Cole (she was part of an older all-girl group in the UK, whose name escapes me, for those non-British folks here). Very sad for the child and the rest of his family.

Wow, he still looked hot at R24's link.

More handsome than when he was in 1D, in my humble opinion.

A Google search of him has 2 great pics with really short hair on him.

What a looker.

If you’re going to commit suicide, you’d go higher than three floors. I say accident. Or Putin.

He died just like Mark Jennings!

I wonder what was on his iPod?

I wonder what was on his iPod?

Shocking hotel room photos already appearing in Argentine press.

^ Ready To Run...

He had a nice ass, but couldn't....

He was not the brightest bulb and not very talented. Seemed to be extremely attention seeking.

r69 He was by far the most attractive 1D member IMHO.

R64, well if someone on Reddit recently claimed it, then it surely must be so.

Does Peter Thiel have an alibi?

Had this happened to Niall, that big white belly of his woulda bounced him right back up to his balcony!

[quote]Drunk folk and balconies....

Balconies are the new bathtubs.

^ LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

Sounds like suicide

Has Zayn canceled his tour yet?

He was in the process of being canceled, wasn't he?

Who's next, Louis or Zayn?

"What's new, Buenos Aires?..."

SPLAT!!

[quote]"Fell". It has to be a suicide.

Not from only the third floor. I say drunk and clumsy.

Totally agree with whoever said the fiancee will be getting death threats from Directioners. They're nutso.

The drug paraphernalia at R75 - if it was his - is pretty hard core.

I never knew that he knocked up Cheryl Cole but's she known to be a racist, crazy bitch behind the cameras. That poor kid of theirs - imagine carrying the genes of these two!

What’s up with balconies and Buenos Aires?

R92 He knocked up the Where Have All the Cowboys Gone singer??

Fireproof is another great tune of theirs =

R91 His behavior just before falling matches someone on that kind of gear. So it is likely his. The staff had just carried him into his room so they would have seen that and then ran back to photograph it once he went splat.

How the FUCK did they get drug photos like that so soon? I call bullshit on the authenticity. This will go on for a long time.

R97 by doing exactly as described in R96.

R92, it's always blown my mind that Cheryl Cole punched a toilet attendant roughly two WEEKS after Girls Aloud released their debut single, and somehow her career wasn't affected long-term.

To realize just how young he was from a from a DL point of view, Liam wasn't even alive when Madonna released "Deeper & Deeper" back in the early 90s.

R37

[quote] and that Liam had been acting erratic in the hotel lobby earlier -- he smashed his laptop, and had to be carried back to his room.

If the pictures are real then it would have been the people who carried him into the room. They may have taken them before he died (he was clearly out of his mind) or they may have come back in just after the 'incident' to photograph the evidence lest they be accused as the last people in his room.

r100, that wins the Mary! comment of the century.

I agree that this is likelier to have been a drug/alcohol-induced accidental fall rather than suicide.

He had the least successful solo career out of all 5 members of One Direction. Nevertheless I always thought Zayn would be the first one to pass. Not to sound morbid.

Regardless of his drug issues. This was a most shocking and unexpected death.

Cheryl Cole is an old slag. Liam (drugs or not) was way too good for her. Just about anyone (male or female) would be way too good for that crazy bitch.

So judging by the pics, what kind of drugs was he on?

Don't celebrities die at 27 anymore?

UB40 had the #1 song in the US when his mama popped him out at the end of Aug. 1993 =

^ FALLING In Love LOL!

I've just realised that two of most successful pop groups to come from British talent shows - One Direction and Girls Aloud - have both had members die young in the last few years. Little Mix better watch out!

I'm such a fucking hypocrite. I'm thinking "how sick that TMZ posted details of a photo of Payne's dead body" - but if they posted the ACTUAL photo, I know I wouldn't be able to resist clicking the link.

What drugs are pictured there? Cocaine?

1D reunion was never going to happen anyway I was quite sure. Now? Never unfortunately. They're hardly the Beatles but 1D was close.

[quote]I wonder what was on his iPod?

His spinal cord.

Liam Payne has attention-seeking meltdown at Niall Horan's concert in Argentina

Liam Payne has been having what seems like an attention-seeking meltdown for the past couple of years days. He's been grifting repeatedly posting clickbait content on Snapchat because he's probably on the brink of bankrupt.

Earlier this week he announced he'd be going to Argentina to watch his former bandmate's concert in Buenos Aires.

"It's been a while since me and Niall have spoken. We got a lot to talk about. And I would like to square up a couple of things with the boy. No bad vibes or anything like that, but... we need to talk... It's important."

He previously said that Niall had asked him to stop mentioning him in interviews.

Before the show, he did a meet and greet outside of his hotel:

.......

His ex gf's comments are fueled with rage because she spoke up a few days ago about the mental abuse he put her through and he threatened her with suicide.

UK and many other countries: "Third floor" = US fourth floor. (The main level is the ground level, and the first floor above it is the first floor. So it could've been fairly high up.

The ex is about to get a shit ton of hate and blame. I’d delete my social media for a while if I was her.

Maybe it was revenge for the Falklands War.

R11 Given the tealight candle, lighter and aluminium foil it's more likely crack or heroin - coke is most commonly snorted or injected rather than smoked.

[quote] 1D reunion was never going to happen anyway I was quite sure. Now? Never unfortunately.

Unless they pull a Weekend at Liam's.

I get that we shouldn't blame the ex before we know more, but it is kind of funny to see people care more about her feelings than his death.

Personally I'd feel more sorry for her if she had been pushing her new book that was supposedly fictitious with inspiration from her life. Like, for fucking real? Couldn't she have written nonfiction and tell her story straight instead? By making it fictitious she could write literally anything in the book and everyone would assume it's him. It's a fucking scumbag move.

Nah, him chasing her around the house with an ax is a scumbag move

R123 Which we know for sure happened because?

The first time I remember thinking "Okay, I'm getting old" was when a Directioner tweeted "I hope I look half as good as Cheryl when I'm her age" when Cheryl was only thirty-two

R113 wins.

This is just awful!!!!! He was on the 3rd floor. I'm thinking it was accidental.

I guess his son will…Bear Payne now.

What a shitty way to die

He might have been drunk/high and tried to jump into the swimming pool, which is right next to the patio.

What was on his Spotify playlist?

This is how I learned never to drugs when above the first floor.

If only he had taken note!

The Emergency Services call made from the hotel to the dispatch, @R75 was made prior to his death.

The hotel employee says that a hotel guest presently on the premises/grounds, has suffered from what appears to be a drug overdose, & remains completely unresponsive after various attempts to get him to “wake up” or “come to”.

It is not specified what part of the hotel Payne is in. The caller doesn’t specify the lobby, his private suite, the bar, etc., but I’m wagering the call was made from Payne’s room, since the caller immediately said a guest had overdosed on drugs.

The call is not completed, due to the caller leaving the call while the dispatcher continued to ask more questions. I’m assuming he may have started to come to, & had a major freak out, jumping off or falling off the balcony?

Please do not take this as a narrative of what happened precisely, as I am not there & am merely going by what is being said & filling in the blanks with hypothetical scenarios that might best fit the conversation & the end result of events.

It really could have been a horrible & unfortunate accident.

R124 Because he just had a fit in a hotel lobby, smashed his laptop, got carried upstairs by security and then jumped/fell out the window. Grabbing an axe during an argument is not a stretch.

Who the hell has an axe that is conveniently available to snatch and chase people around?

He could’ve gone out to a garage or shed during an argument, got the axe, then came back inside and chased her around with it. He sounds like he had anger issues.

He's obviously crazy as fuck. It's no fun being in a relationship like this unless you're an addict just like him

Liam's death arm in in this picture. His tattoos are visible here

MAJOR correction: after listening again, the caller says that the hotel guest has taken a large amount of what appears to be drugs, & is now thrashing about and destroying the room.

He said he is unapproachable, completely out of control & super aggressive. This did not happen in the hotel lobby. It happened in his hotel room.

Sorry for the mix up! I turned off my fan & listened again.

Payne?

Ouch!

[quote]Who the hell has an axe that is conveniently available to snatch and chase people around?

Axe-wielding is strange when someone like Candy Montgomery does it. When a drug addict does it, it's less surprising and usually means that paranoia is one of their many mental health issues.

and who provided the drugs?

[Quote] If you’re going to commit suicide, you’d go higher than three floors.

Actually three floors is fine.

I'll bet it went down like this...

Be careful wishing for fame. Jeesh.

Distances are freakishly extended in Argentina, because of inflation from the egos of the population.

Does anyone know what drugs & paraphernalia are photographed @ the link via R75?

Liam was one of the most talented singers ever. He also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout his life. Despite that, he had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Boy Bands. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with his struggles and he theirs.

Was Eric Clapton in the vicinity?

Anyone else think he used drugs to the point of acute psychosis, hence took a flying leap over the balcony or miscalculated the distance between himself & the sidewalk, & decided to jump out the window in order to run off & avoid scandal?

When drugs are involved, anything is possible. Guess we’ll never know what his reasoning was, if any.

THREE floors?

Amateur.

Just like Spike's babydaddy in Degrassi. Do people really think they can fly on drugs?

Drugs were found in his hotel room. Tin foil = heroin or crack.

If those pics of drugs and smashed TV are from his suite, it’s a pretty shitty suite. The wood table and ugly floors don’t seem to match the video he took of him talking and looking around his place on Snapchat. His video shows a very nice place. I say the pics aren’t real.

R147 see R120.

[quote] Who the hell has an axe that is conveniently available to snatch and chase people around?

Hotels in other countries often keep them in cases, in case of fires.

They used to keep them in American hotels, too.

I keep a crow bar handy in case of emergencies. We don't have guns here

[QUOTE] Who the hell has an axe that is conveniently available to snatch and chase people around?

I've read his ex's book. He had it on the wall. A Tasmanian bushman's axe he'd bought online.

If he fell backwards and smashed his skull on the pavement three floors are plenty.

Come on. Liam was always troubled. This was a suicide.

I think he was smoking crack. Looks like cocaine on the table. Cocaine addicts start smoking it because snorting long term fucks up your nose.

The vial suggests some pharmaceutical grade shit.

Hope he left a decent nest egg for the boy.

The end.

So young. So Sad.😞. RIP Liam.

He was so handsome. Poor, troubled Liam

Yeah. It’s sad, R163.

Some of us make it out older, some of us make it out quite young, while plenty never arrive.

It’s all random AF, & even utterly meaningless, but somehow worth it.

May he RIP.

[quote] What a shitty way to die

Is there a non-shitty way to die?

Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths- Leif Garrett and JoBeth Williams

Rarely am I shocked when a magazine cites "shocking photos."

But I actually gasped when I saw the first photo at R75.

That is some hard core shit.

[quote] Who the hell has an axe that is conveniently available to snatch and chase people around?

Who do you think?

[quote] Who the hell has an axe that is conveniently available to snatch and chase people around?

I know someone.

I bet Julian Morris and Landon Ross are real broken up about this. They both seemed very close to him.

How many of you cunts let out a "Princess Diana Dead Scream" when you read this headline???

Fess up!!

The axe was in his house some years ago. There was no axe in the hotel room, nor was there an ex for him to chase around the room with it.

Do you think Larry was real? I’ve seen a lot of videos and pics but I don’t know.

This is a Diddy from prison hit. Sources say.

Susan Dey is unavailable for comment.

I'm sure that racist chav Cheryl is delighted - thanks to this she can play the Grieving Widow and rescue her inexistent career from utter and complete oblivion.

As for Liam Payne, it's always sad when someone dies, but One Direction was the most unsubstantial boy band ever and the fact that he didn't try to get his act together after he was basically handed a winning lottery ticket in life, makes me think less of him. Some people just cannot be happy no matter how many golden opportunities they are given in life.

I hope it brings the rest of them back together.

If he smashed his laptop in the lobby, then continued to smash things when carried to his room, wonder if he had gotten an email that made him upset? There is pending legal action with an ex, etc.

I would have guessed an accident, esp with the heavy drugs and his booze issue, but if he had been threatening suicide, who knows? The current girlfriend/minder left for FL, was he alone there?

My best friend lived directly in front of that hotel a few years back. Swanky area. Alot of celbs stay there when in BA.

He messed with the wrong people.

Don't cry for Liam, Argentina.

If source is correct, he jumped.

Some people are saying he wanted to go in the pool but was too drunk so the staff kept him from going in, so he tried to dive from his floor and, well, missed.

R75 hey, he was a Dove bar soap user, just like me!

That's a whole lot of drugs....

Can someone explain what's in this photo?

Just look at the profound sadness in these eyes.

No, R188, but I can refer you to R120 and R153 where all is explained. Again.

R172, see r27.

Not crack. Heroin for sure. He was smoking it off tin foil. You don’t smoke crack like that. (Don’t ask how I know I’m very educated). He was also using tin foil as a straw for the smoke.

[quote]Most people would live falling off the third floor.

Not those who hit their head on the pavement and fracture their skull, which is what happened to Liam.

Agree with R194. Definitely not crack.

Sorry, agree with R193 I mean.

Suicide or not his mental health was in serious decline in the past few years:

1. Fucking his face up with buccal fat removal. 2. Appearing coked up during live red carpet interviews. 3. Alienating some of his former One Direction band mates (particularly Zayn). 4. Drugs. 5. Domestic abuse and threats towards his now ex plus pressuring her to get an abortion. 6. Possibly sexting female fans that may or may not have been underage and getting caught which supposedly led to his drug fueled meltdown culminating in him smashing his laptop and jumping to his death. 7. Being the least talented solo wise out of One Direction.

Zero sympathy. Random British chav trash gets plucked out of obscurity and thrown into a life of unimaginable luxury and privilege, despite very little obvious talent.

Instead of doing something productive, squanders it all and dies subsequent to a drug-induced psychosis.

That’s all. Nothing remarkable really.

Obviously three floors was plenty for suicide in this case. But the odds of survival with horrible injuries are high. Of course, it sounds like he was not in a position to think clearly.

I’m kinda leaning in r198’s direction, but it just sounds so harsh.

When i was younger I've done coke, smoked H, weed, it's all fine and dandy but at some point in life you gotta grow up. This was a 31 year old man, not a teenager.... Another one bites the dust

He was chasing the dragon!!!

This would be me if I was rich and famous.

Yeah based on the hotel pictures he was a heroin addict.

He was also a drunk, R204.

Well, once you lean out of the window too far, there's only One Direction.

The body in the photos posted by TMZ looked okay.

He smashed his head, R207.

The whole Whitney Houston crackhead bathroom thing is becoming an international design trend.

Liam was bitterly jealous of Harry's career as a megastar who is even more successful than One Direction. Instead of retiring from music and starting a family and enjoying his $50m, he plunged headfirst into drugs and madness.

Liam wasn't very bright and said he found it impossible to fill his time when he was alone. He could barely read and write and just didn't find books or film or even TV engaging in the same way the majority do. Like most drug addicts, he was always looking for the next party.

He was being sued by his ex for attempted assault (murder) by axe and had just had another person accuse him of hitting her up for sex when she was underage.

It points to a suicide jump after copious amounts of depressing drugs.

[QUOTE] was Larry real?

No. Louis Tomlinson is an ugly straight chav. Styles is bisexual but will marry a woman.

From Reddit:

[quote]Apparently there is a whatsapp voice note leaked from a staff whatsapp group from the hotel stating he was denied access to the swimming pool for being too intoxicated. He got pissed, brought to his room by staff and apparently was doing drugs infront of one of the members of staff. Once they left, next thing they knew was he was fount dead on the decking, right beside the pool. There is a photograph of a forensics tent around his body taken from the apartment he was in and he landed right beside the swimming pool. Many think he got high and tried to jump in from the balcony and sadly fell short. God rest him and my heart goes out to his family.

When are you grandpas gonna get that NOBODY IN THE UK HAS SAID CHAV FOR YEARS. It's like saying "groovy" or some other antiquated slang?

At least he died hot and not fat

Also from Reddit:

[quote]It's called Balconing. It's become a bit of a meme in some areas that it's a weird thing that mostly Brits (and some Irish) do abroad. Feels like there's usually 1 or 2 deaths reported each year about someone, usually a young lad, that's died doing this while on holiday in Spain.

Thanks R215 - I was just about to point out the same thing. DL has just discovered "chav", bless their hearts.

They must pick it up from the Mail Online.

Has Cheryl commented yet? I joked thinking she was a fling, but he fathered a child with her.

BBC has a live feed with quotes as they come in. No Cheryl yet.

She's also not Cheryl Cole anymore. It's just Cheryl.

She's also doing with her career. Girls Aloud just did a sold out reunion tour in the UK and they made bank.

Woke up to this. I'm very shocked. RIP.

[quote]I didn't know he was Russian!

More importantly, where was Peter Thiel at the time of the "accident."

Given your posting history, we're still waiting r222. 🚫

Such a huge loss to the music world 🥴

I watched him audition on The X Factor when it aired originally, I feel so old now.

[Quote]Who's next, Louis or Zayn?

Omg, imagine a 1D serial killer, picking off the boys one by one.

[Quote]I wonder what was on his iPod?[Quote]

[Quote]His spinal cord.[Quote]

Braduckingvo, R113. This will become one of the all time great comments in DL history!

Oh ffs. I fucked up the quoting format, and brafuckingvo auto corrected to brad fucking vo.

[Quote]Who the hell has an axe that is conveniently available to snatch and chase people around?

You'd be surprised...

Boy bands are a death trap.

Thank God it wasn't Harry Styles.

Yes, Louis and Zayn are both addicts and could go at any time.

The real tragedy is that we never got a cock shot from him. Hopefully the skanks he fucked will now dish on the size etc.

Usually, morgue photos can be commissioned for a price.

R229, R230, and r231 are all the same blocked poster. 🚫

Sorry, NOT r229. I miscounted. The cunt's at r233.

[quote] What was on his Spotify playlist?

I Believe I Can Fly - R. Kelly

Do you think anyone ever got to sample his ass?

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R183, Reddit link doesn’t work.

Where’s the photo TMZ is mentioning?

[quote]The real tragedy is that we never got a cock shot from him. Hopefully the skanks he fucked will now dish on the size etc.

R232, well, we know Liam was uncut -- he and Louis revealed it in an interview:

Cooper Koch for the biopic.

View of Liam's hotel #1:

View of Liam's hotel #2:

He had a nice ass but it couldn't last forever.

[QUOTE] The real tragedy is that we never got a cock shot from him.

He sent PLENTY to fans he wanted to hook up with and also sent a dick pic to his ex's mother and grandmother!

We shouldn't just assume suicide. Maybe Liam was fooling around with a guy, and the guy's father caught them, and was so enraged that he threw Liam off the balcony. That happens sometimes.

I'm R231 but not R233.

According to one of the hotel staff, he'd hired two prostitutes and was arguing with them outside the room about payment. He's a stingy dude if he was shortchanging the local hoes.

Life is like a box of chocolates...

RIP

On the radio they're talking about how he received an intense amount of abuse over the last week and they've learned nothing from Caroline Flack.

R171, Landon Ross just posted an IG story with 2 red candles and a broken heart:

r154 Well you're wrong. The photo with the smashed television in the link at r75 matches photos of the suite on the hotel website and Trip Advisor, and on the latter you can also match the base of the lamp and the same table as the one in the drug photos.

r179 According to the ex he used to smash things all the time, so sounds like regular behaviour for him.

Sounds like the Illuminati strikes again!

[quote]She's also not Cheryl Cole anymore. It's just Cheryl.

How embarrassing.

None of the other 1d guys has spoken up yet.

The 1D fan girls are all over Liam's ex's IG. Calling her a murderess and a few choice other words. She must be sleeping with one eye open tonight!

Does MJ have an alibi?

No es una fan!

r257 Got to wait for them to come out of their own drug-induced stupors first

[quote] None of the other 1d guys has spoken up yet.

Yes they have...

Crisis PR and entourage and hangers-on and pick mes are LOVING this.

Why was he in Argentina?

I worry for Niall. You know he's a comfort eater when sad.

Why is anyone ever in Argentina, really.

[quote] Why was he in Argentina?

He went to Niall Horan's concert in BA on October 2. He probably hung around because it's an amazing city with everything on offer. R266 clearly has no idea what he's talking about.

It was Niall on the balcony with a baguette!

Argentina is a failed state with a fascist on top. But I won't get dragged into all that all over again with the Buenos Aires Tourist Board member at R267.

It is for sure considered gauche for a celeb to die there, that I think we can all agree on. Like dying in Alabama. Just no.

R269 has obviously never left his square state, let alone visited Argentina, which he couldn’t identify on a map.

“Woke up to this.” LOL. Yes, the world will never be the same

I can believe he was mad that he was denied access to the pool and decided to jump from his balcony into the pool. That sounds plausible. It wasn’t an intentional suicide, just stupidity plus anger plus drugs. Guy was a mess

Fair point.

[quote]None of the other 1d guys has spoken up yet.

?

I am very sorry about this Liam guy, but could someone please send that watermelon sugar I keep hearing about?

[quote] On the radio they're talking about how he received an intense amount of abuse over the last week and they've learned nothing from Caroline Flack.

I consume a lot of UK media and hear the “we’ve learned nothing from Caroline Flack” every few months.

From cranks and tabloids.

The similarities are chilling.

R75, I find it astonishing how laconic and aloof the front office manager sounds while reporting everything to emergency services, and how in the end someone speaks to him and then, he tells the operator "change that - just contact medical emergency services". I find it a little bit shocking to see that he's as cool as a cucumber and this makes me wonder what sorts of things he's seen in his job, to take someone's drug-induced rampage and death so nonchalantly.

Anyway, as I've said before, it's sad when anyone dies, but this isn't some poor guy who was living in the streets. This is a multi-millionaire who had the resources to get plenty of help, and simply couldn't be bothered to make the effort of staying clean. Oh well, there are people whose lives are genuinely tragic, so I'll reserve my compassion for them.

Even as a youth, he seemed the most likely to be psychotic. I wonder if they’ll find any (actual) skeletons in his closet. He gave me Cary Stayner vibes.

They found clonazepam at the scene and a bottle of whiskey. Lethal combination.

How many 1D fans have thrown themselves off balconies since he went boom?

None because he was the least popular. You'd only see that now if Harry Styles died.

It's always sad when a working class person gets filthy rich but ends up dying as young and as tawdry as a street addict.

I hope the rest of them follow his example

[quote]They found clonazepam at the scene and a bottle of whiskey.

That’s it?

[quote] clonazepam

[quote] and a bottle of whiskey.

Breakfast!

[quote] Why is anyone ever in Argentina, really.

Various reasons.

[quote]Why was he in Argentina?

To suck up the local callor, Rose!

Was he ever rumored to have engaged in the homosex?

So what is the current word for a chav?

Oof, R280. Lethal combination indeed.

Even taking Klonopin without booze can REALLY fuck you up, as it can effect you as if though you’re basically sleep walking. You have no idea what you did or why, and depending on the logistics of it all, you could either fall asleep or cause catastrophic harm to yourself, and/or others.

Maybe his ex shouldn’t have aired their dirty laundry on TikTok. Take legal action if needed against Liam, sure. But not run to social media next.

You really believe you have reserves of compassion for the destitute & afflicted, R278?

LMAO.

R292, from the little I’ve gathered, she may have aired out the dirty laundry due to being completely fed up with his bullshit.

Yes, he’s dead now, so I’m not trying to beat the lifeless horse when assessing what drove her to it… HIM.

He was likely unable to detach from her because he was by all accounts, an abusive asshole whom she couldn’t get away from entirely because they shared a child together.

Imagine THAT. Constantly dealing with an angry, spiteful, addicted creep who won’t leave you alone, simply because you no longer want to drag that particular ball & chain around. Now imagine being forced to co-parent with that?

I’m sure she’s devastated, however, I am also betting she’s somewhat RELIEVED.

No one wants to deal with some fucker who chases one around with a fucking axe, much less raise a child with him.

[quote]Was he ever rumored to have engaged in the homosex?

Yes. But you will have to decide for yourself. Take a look at the early days when 1D first got together. When they moved in together they were making videos of them hanging out. Look at their interactions and gazes. I won't say more as it's an old topic that almost tore DL apart. May the odds be always in your favor.

[quote] I won't say more as it's an old topic that almost tore DL apart.

I’m a Larry shipper; a Larry believer, if you will.

[quote]They found clonazepam at the scene and a bottle of whiskey. Lethal combination.

Bitch please, that's any given weekday. When did Datalounge become overrun with the Amish?

[quote]I won't say more as it's an old topic that almost tore DL apart.

MARY!

[quote] I won't say more as it's an old topic that almost tore DL apart.

It was no Prancing Pony.

What a random way for a celebrity (sort of) to die.

[quote] from the little I’ve gathered, she may have aired out the dirty laundry due to being completely fed up with his bullshit.

[quote]Yes, he’s dead now, so I’m not trying to beat the lifeless horse when assessing what drove her to it… HIM.

What do you think people did before social media when they had issues? They dealt with them the best they could leaning on friends and family or retreating to heal. Maybe a couple neighbors knew—not 500k people.

Going to social media accomplishes what? It’s not a legal process. In this case it could have contributed to his death.

He was trying to jump into the pool from his balcony.

SPLAT!

I guess the aires weren't so buenos for him down there.

He may have jumped according to recent reports

[quote]He was likely unable to detach from her because he was by all accounts, an abusive asshole whom she couldn’t get away from entirely because they shared a child together.

R294 The ex who was spilling her beef on social media never had a child with Liam. He's a father to a 7-year old, but not with this girl. His baby mama is 41-year old Cheryl Tweedy from the girl band Girls Aloud. Cheryl was also a judge on The X Factor and was the judge when Liam first auditioned at the age of 14, which is creepy as hell.

This Maya girl who he was supposedly harassing and stalking is 23 and as such, thinks if you don't share it with the world, it didn't happen. No one needed to know any of this publicly. The man was very sick in his addiction and just needed help. So if she is drowning in hate mail currently, she brought it on herself. However she's an infant at age 23 and doesn't know anything about anything, but if you are taking legal action agains someone you should be counseled not to speak publicly about any of it.

You are ranting about the wrong ex, R294. The one on Tik Tok had an abortion, allegedly, they do not have a child together. That is with a different ex, some older pop singer in UK.

R295, found this on X/Twitter…ironically, the alleged bf is an Argentine 🤨🤨

A source told the publication: "This news has hit Simon incredibly hard - he is utterly shocked and devastated. He adored Liam, and was close to his family with whom he is sure to reach out privately. He didn't feel it was right to continue with filming BGT, and when it resumes on Saturday, does not feel he'll be in the right head space to continue.“

Jumping off the balcony - will that negate most life insurance payouts? Hope he has a trust for his kid. The mom is not a high earner.

I don't know if they'll be able to definitively rule it a suicide. If he was higher than a kite and thought he could reach the pool, sounds tragically accidental to me.

R307, that could explain why he was hanging around for so long.

Beard/gfriend left days before his death.

I'm still curious is there was an email on the laptop that led to the lobby meltdown, smashing the laptop, etc.

He seemed like a real loose cannon.

The story about him being barred from the pool, how would that even work. Typically free access for guests, how would he be blocked? If true, could see that he may have jumped toward the pool rather than meaning to die.

In the translation of the manager's call, why does it say Costa Rica?

He had probably either been harassing other poolgoers or shit in the pool, so he wasn't allowed back in there.

His death wasn't a bad way to go; too wasted and took quick to be scared or even realize what was going on.

His life sounded like a train wreck. Rage issues and addictions he was lost to. I'm far from wealthy but I wouldn't have traded him.

Hope he is at peace now.

*too quick

Apparently, you can tell by where a person lands and the trajectory whether someone jumped or fell/pushed.

When people jump, they jump away from the building. When they fall or get pushed, they usually land much closer.

He's recently done a few interviews where he's made some pretty outlandish claims, like he's been the most successful 1d member based on the number of downloads of his songs or some such. He comes across as a bit troubled and bitter about his career.

Apparently, there were 2 women waiting for him in the lobby yesterday, who ended up leaving without him. Drug dealers?

[quote] It comes as police investigating the sudden death of One Direction star Liam Payne are searching for two 'key witnesses' who could be among the last people to see him alive.

[quote] ...Argentine investigators are now hunting for two women who spent time with Payne at the Casa Sur hotel the night before his shock death.

[quote] Both women are said to have left the hotel yesterday after waiting for the star in the lobby, Argentine outlet Infobae reports.

[quote] There is no indication that the women could be involved in his death, but police hope they can help piece together Payne's final moments before he plunged to his death at around 5pm local time.

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Lord Rothermere, the founder of The Daily Mail, with his best German friend.

R305 thinks it's okay to abuse women if you're a semi-attractive boybander, apparently

If he was an asshole his ex had the right to go on social media and talk about it. It’s not something I’d do but I’m not in my 20s and dating a celebrity of sorts

Like all glorious spirits who have borne the humiliation of flesh, I hope Liam is finally getting everything his heart ever desired, as a brand new creator god within his own inner domain, free of the limitations of our demiurge's prison. Go little rock star!

R294, judging by her IG, she looks like a gold-digging attentionwhore herself. Not sure how much I believe this early 20something THOT who models herself after the missing Kardashian.

[quote] The story about him being barred from the pool, how would that even work. Typically free access for guests, how would he be blocked?

When a guest is shit-faced drunk (or worse), it's probably not the best idea to leave them near a body of water like a pool. Liability issues, even in Argentina.

R321, Liam is a tacky attention whore with no talent who was in a shitty boyband and was a druggie

He was a human being, r323. The jury's out on you.

R323, I dont really care. He was a musician and they all lead wild, unhealthy, unsavory lives. But he had some level of talent I suppose, which is more than what can be said about this human Bratz doll.

R316 well how does that work? Was he with whores who drugged him and threw him off the balcony when he was KO.

He was the Florence to Harry's Diana. Zayn is Mary. Louis is Cindy and Niall is Jean.

R324, so is his ex. But, since she's not an attractive straight man, I guess you don't care

R325, no, he didn't have any talent and he looked like a Bratz Doll himself with all the plastic surgery

^I think the ex has found DL!

gee, I wonder if the hotel will close that room and not rent it out? since someone died in there?

People are defending him because he’s cute. Never change, Datalounge 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

R331 reading skills? He died on the patio several floors down.

R330, I think a frau who runs a One Direction fanclub found the DL!

R332 Give it a rest, Gloria Steinem.

Give it a rest, Fiona Fangirl

he will be haunting that hotel

R332, so? This is DL. There is a hierarchy of grieving done here, with attractive males at the top.

Btw, have you seen the comments on the ex's IG posts? She has far greater things to worry about than some throwaway thread on DL.

[quote] judging by her IG, she looks like a gold-digging attentionwhore herself.

She's the daughter of a billionaire you dumb fuck, hardly a gold-digger

Reminder to anyone with sympathy for him - he's a friend of the Duck Dynasty douchebags and praised their "traditional family values".

Scott Mills says Liam was always "the grown-up member of the group, the wise one". Which is ironic, considering that none of the others have ended up falling out of windows.

Joint statement from the surviving members of One Direction:

"We're completely devastated by the news of Liam's passing. In time, and when everyone is able to, there will be more to say.

"But for now, we will take some time to grieve and process the loss of our brother, who we loved dearly.

"The memories we shared with him will be treasured forever. For now, our thoughts are with his family, his friends, and the fans who loved him alongside us.

"We will miss him terribly. We love you Liam. - Louis, Zayn, Niall and Harry"

I'm mourning the loss of the objective case.

Technically R331, he didn’t die IN the room.

Was he the fat one?

Sorry to hear of his death. However, anyone with tattoos on their hands is mentally deranged.

He and his model ex are equally trashy. When people like that fight there’s always drama

R339, for being the supposed daughter of a "billionaire" she is certainly trashy. Maybe she should examine her life choices better next time lest she get followed by another ax-wielder!

[quote] "We will miss him terribly. We love you Liam. - Louis, Zayn, Niall and Harry"

Will Zayn feel the appropriate guilt, knowing that if he had not broken up the group, Liam would still be alive?

From British talent contests, Sarah Harding, Darius Danesh, and Liam Payne are all gone - yet Rik Waller lives on. How?

R350, that is probably because death comes to people for reasons other than your finding them attractive.

r342 It took 24 hours for their PR people to come up with that?

Popbitch:

[quote]Back in the early years of One Direction we had a Popbitch party with a special guest, a famous X Factor act. Chatting then, the one thing we were struck with was them describing how they were on the series when a 14 year-old Liam Payne first auditioned as a solo star.

[quote]Frank Sinatra-singing Liam was unsuccessful then but they struck up a friendship, so he confided in them that he kept getting told he just wasn't cool enough to be a pop star. Liam seemed to go out of his way ever since to prove with his love for drink, drugs and tattoos that it wasn't the case.

[quote]It's such a shame he didn't have the same faith in himself that some real taste-makers did. Our favourite story about Liam was that in his post-One Direction years he got into art, and started to do some drawing.

[quote]Word of his new hobby reached David Hockney's great-nephew, who kindly arranged for Liam to meet the man himself. In advance of the meeting, Liam made a portrait of Hockney, and presented it to him when they did get to hang out. Hockney was so taken with the result that he hung the portrait up in his house.

[quote]A close second favourite story? Liam and Cheryl stayed together publicly at the end of their relationship purely to piss off Dan Wootton, then Showbiz editor at The Sun, who had reported their break-up.

[quote] for being the supposed daughter of a "billionaire" she is certainly trashy

Her first picture on IG is of her “look at me, I’m in a short dress standing in a parking garage posing.”

Her whole IG like many others is just look-at-me pose-I’m-so-pretty.

Ah, a druggie throws himself off a balcony and instead the ancient queens of DL decide to bitch about a woman he terrorised instead

[quote]He was a musician and they all lead wild, unhealthy, unsavory lives.

Go fuck yourself.

Where is the death pic?

What was on his Ipod?

Are we still doing this?

[quote] Where is the death pic?

TMZ

R355, she looks like a liar to me.

r315, a poster upthread said something about 2 prostitutes waiting around for him, to be paid or to contest how little he paid them.

Almost anything is surmountable - even mental illness, and/or C-PTSD.

Decide to stop the self harm or suicidal ideation by checking into rehab, even if you think you can do it on your own. You need not do it alone.

Stay sober. Give yourself a break. Take it day by day. Eventually, I promise that a time will come when you will FINALLY feel safe again, and THAT is when the real inner work begins. Once you hit that benchmark, you’ll either be ready to start processing it all, or you’ll relapse & then anything goes. Not everyone gets another shot.

I myself, have reached that particular spot, & as genuinely frightening it feels to unravel it all & start TRULY healing, I’m absolutely sick of living in what could be the alternative if I choose to drink again.

For anyone here experiencing doubt, depression, anxiety, etc. - Please know that it changes. Into what? I cannot say at this moment, but I’m positive that dealing with my mental health head on beats being dead, or worse: miserable. Same goes for anyone here reading this right now.

Clonazepam does not fuck you up as one poster said. It is one of the safer benzos, and is used for epilepsy. The more addictive and dangerous benzos are Ativan, Valium, and Xanax being the most addictive. Now, if you take a fuck ton of Clonazepam of course it is dangerous. Take it as directed it is fine.

Where is the dead body pic? I do not see it on TMZ. Someone post it please.

Fuck you, pay me.

Kind of eerie. On the first page of the Popjustice thread about Liam Payne in 2016, one poster suggested he might be the dark horse of 1D, and another replied:

[quote] It's not gonna happen for him. Not in the slightest. He's the Sarah Harding.

Well... in the end, he was.

R351, but how the hell has he not died of complications from obesity? Seriously?

[QUOTE] Now, if you take a fuck ton of Clonazepam of course it is dangerous. Take it as directed it is fine.

All benzos are viciously addictive. If you stop them abruptly there's a high likelihood of seizures and death. You need to be medically weaned off over a period of about six months, taking smaller and smaller doses each week.

[QUOTE] Hope he has a trust for his kid. The mom is not a high earner.

???Cheryl Cole was a very high earner in her teens, 20s and early 30s and is worth about $50m from her solo career and her time in Girls Aloud.

[QUOTE] Is he the fat one?

No, that's Niall.

He was mixing prescription meds with street drugs, booze, untreated mental illness and a balcony. RIP.

Feel very sad for his son who will have genetic risk and trauma to grapple with, not sure how good of a life guide LP was.

Argentina is going after the dealers, as CA did re: Perry, biggest threat to Payne was himself. Sad.

I saw his X Factor audition and he was so mediocre. Simon hired him for his looks alone.

Was he once good looking? He looks like a creepy addict in recent photos.

Passably cute and definitely better looking than Harry or Louis.

Best thing for him. Tedious. Very tedious.

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From link above

"Multiple sources have confirmed to MailOnline that the singer was axed by the record label.

A source said: 'Liam's advance was massive and he didn't recoup [it].

'Out of all of the One Direction boys, Liam was on the wrong path musically.'

It is understood that the release of his second album was put on hold prior to Universal dropping him.

Meanwhile, it can also be revealed that Liam's PR resigned earlier this month, which left him without any publicity representation.

The resignation came as Liam's ex-fiancé Maya Henry began legal proceedings against the singer after accusing him of repeatedly contacting her.

One source said: 'It is like all of Liam's music career that he had built up since he went solo eight years ago was crumbling, there was very little left for him.

'It must have absolutely devastated him.'"

Its amazing how fame is still sought after by so many when the sad endings are so many. It must be a horrible existence always having to better yourself or your a hasbeen...and nowhere is as harsh on that subject than DL. Here theyll call anyone a hasbeen if they arent at the peek of perfection...as if their past successes are wiped out. I always find DL very hard on people regarding this topic. 😒

Almost as hard as people on DL are on people who can’t spell, R377.

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Must be humiliating to go from being in a mega-famous boyband to being dropped by your label.

Sounds like he had a bipolar diagnosis with his talk of "mania" in interviews. Can make sobriety extra challenging if not well managed. Coke and drink/downers can be self medicating attempts by those with unstable moods. That + anxiety is hard no matter what life you are in. More structure could have helped him perhaps.

Being dropped by the label and facing legal issues with ex as well as more public humiliation and being labeled a predator seems like it was more than he could cope with. I said upthread that the smashing of the laptop in the lobby was likely linked to an email he received. Wonder if the girlfriend left when he got the news from the label?

Louis has been through so much family tragedy but seems to have more resilience. His post about being there for Bear is sweet.

Very sad outcome. Maybe 31 felt too old to start over. Sometimes these kind of suicides are very impulsive. I lost a friend that way. If sober and with bad news at a bit of a remove they likely both would have chosen life. He seemed kind of disconnected from his kid and rootless, LA was likely not a good choice for him.

zayn malik

Zayn seems to have pulled it together a bit, maybe for his kid. We'll see if he can manage touring.

Maybe reaching out for support to friends in the industry felt too humiliating after the label cut him.

Harry Styles

It had to be hard watching the success of the others, being dropped by the label and publicly labelled an abuser in a short time frame had to feel crushing. Shame his mental health struggles were not more effectively addressed. That Zayn would seem to be doing better was not what I expected but he has a life that suits him, more connection to/time with kid, lives on a farm, is not chasing fame in LA and with rappers. Liam seemed lost well before this latest series of blows. It was obvious he had relapsed. He did not have a close circle to ground him, he died in Argentina and even his "girlfriend" had left him alone.

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Wonder when he last saw his kid? Or was around people who genuinely cared about him?

Very sad end. In many of his videos he is clearly mentally ill.

We are doomed as a society.

The media regarding Payne's death= "He fall down. He go boom. He dead. He die from fall. Big hole in head. He die from hole in head. He jump. Fall down. Him die".

R384 Is he really wearing that shirt? That's not photoshop?

I can't even watch extreme parodies of our culture without wincing, we are living it right now

BRAZIL.

NETWORK.

And 👇 !!

So just in the last few days he lost his record label, his PR, was sued, and his girlfriend also left him in Argentina and went back to Miami. Perfect storm for suicide.

Zayn last saw him in 2015.

Louis is another alcoholic. Even on stage he was drinking vodka and Red Bull every night.

[QUOTE] He seemed kind of disconnected from his kid and rootless, LA was likely not a good choice for him.

He hasn't lived in LA since 2017. He sold his house there and was living in London and Buckinghamshire for the past few years, then moved to Miami last month.

Harry's success was galling for Liam. I remember when they both released albums a week apart in December 2019. The same Guardian journalist gave Liam's album a scathing 1* review and Harry's album a glowing 4* one.