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US singer Bruce Springsteen has said the music industry is “exerting enormous pressures on young people” following the death of Liam Payne in Argentina.
The One Direction singer, 31, plunged 45 feet from a third floor into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
talking to the telegraphThe legendary musician, 75, said: ‘This is not unusual in my business.
‘It’s something normal. It is a business that puts enormous pressures on young people.
‘Young people still don’t have the inner ease or the inner self to be able to protect themselves from many of the things that come with success and fame.
Bruce Springsteen has spoken in a recent interview about the “enormous pressure” the industry is putting on young people following the tragic death of Liam Payne at the age of 31.
The One Direction singer, 31, plunged 45 feet from the third floor into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires on Wednesday (pictured in 2016).
“So they lose themselves in a lot of the difficult and often painful (things) … whether it’s drugs or alcohol to relieve some of that pressure.”
He added that he understands it “very well” from his own experience, since he himself has struggled “with different things.”
Springsteen detailed his depression in the memoir Born To Run and said he came “close to the abyss.”
Liam spoke openly about how One Direction’s global fame changed his life and affected his relationship with drugs and alcohol, once admitting: “I don’t know if I’ve hit rock bottom yet.”
Speaking to Stephen Bartlett on the Diary Of The CEO podcast in 2021, Liam admitted: “I was worried about how far my fund would go. Where is the bottom for me? And you would never have seen it. I’m very good at hiding it.’
‘I don’t even know if I’ve reached it yet. I can make that decision now and choose my last moment as my lowest point or I can reach a completely new point.
He admitted that he had suffered for years from “social anxiety” and “stress” about being famous, and spoke of the pressure his mental health was under by not having the freedom to go anywhere as a member of a boy band.
Meanwhile, he also admitted that he was “very lucky to still be here” while speaking to Ant Middleton on his show Straight Talking in 2019.
The musician said: “Young people still don’t have the inner ease or the inner self to be able to protect themselves from many of the things that come with success and fame” (pictured in 2023).
Liam spoke openly about how One Direction’s global fame changed his life and affected his relationship with drugs and alcohol (pictured in 2011).
Speaking to Stephen Bartlett on the Diary Of The CEO podcast in 2021, Liam admitted: “I was worried about how far my fund would go. Where is the bottom for me?
He added: “There are times when that level of loneliness and people picking on you every day from time to time… it’s like, ‘When is this going to end?’… that almost killed me a couple of times.” times”.
Argentine prosecutors said investigations into Liam’s fall so far are “inconclusive.”
He died from multiple traumas and “internal and external hemorrhages,” a post-mortem examination revealed.
Liam fell 45 feet from the third floor to the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in Argentina’s capital on Wednesday, before doctors confirmed his death.
The star had arrived in South America with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy on September 30, staying in Argentina for two weeks after only planning to spend “five days” there.
Police were called to the hotel after receiving reports of an “aggressive man who may be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.”
Shortly afterwards, workers heard a loud sound in the hotel courtyard before the Wolverhampton-born singer’s body was discovered shortly after 5pm local time.
Shocked fans gathered outside after police cordoned off the area and forensic investigators were seen coming and going in white protective suits and blue gloves.
The star was said to have been “acting erratically in the hotel lobby and smashed his laptop” before he “had to be taken back to his room”, according to local media.