Liam Payne revealed details of his One Direction fame in comments that resurfaced after his tragic death at the age of 31.
The singer died instantly from injuries that included a fractured skull when he fell 45 feet from a third-floor balcony at the Casa Sur Hotel in Argentina on Wednesday.
Alberto Crescenti, head of Buenos Aires emergency services, said Liam had a “skull fracture and extremely serious injuries that caused his immediate death.”
Following the devastating news of her death, fans have revisited past videos and interviews of the beloved pop star.
Now, comments Liam made about his global fame and how he tried to be the ‘good guy’ of One Direction have resurfaced.
In a 2015 interview with Herald of the sunLiam said he was the “chill” member of One Direction compared to his bandmates Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik.
Speaking just weeks before the band split in January 2016, Liam said he had gone “a bit crazy” after trying to maintain the “nice guy” image since rising to fame.
“Back then I was a little more relaxed and now I’m not, I went a little crazy,” he told the publication at the time.
Liam Payne (pictured in March) revealed details of his One Direction fame in comments that have resurfaced following his tragic death at the age of 31.
“When I was a kid I tried to be the good guy, that’s how people saw me. Now not so much.
Liam confessed that his carefree attitude had seen him and his bandmate Louis get into difficult situations because he was usually the one to talk them out of those situations.
‘And that puts me and Louis in a lot of difficult situations, which I used to try to get us out of. Now I say “fuck it,” he added.
Liam rose to fame on The X Factor at the age of 16, when he was put in a boy band with Harry, Niall, Zayn and Louis. in what would become One Direction, one of the most successful boy bands in music history.
The band rose to global fame in 2010 and won the hearts of thousands of teenage fans, selling more than 70 million records worldwide.
Liam was very candid about how his worldwide fame with One Direction changed his life and affected his relationship with drugs and alcohol.
Talking to Stephen Bartlett about the CEO Diary Podcast in 2021, he shared: ‘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.
Following his death, comments Liam (pictured in 2010) made about his global fame and how he tried to be One Direction’s “good guy” have resurfaced.
In 2015, Liam said he tried to be the ‘laid back’ member of One Direction compared to his bandmates Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik (LR in 2010).
He admitted that he had suffered from “social anxiety” about being famous for years 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.
Liam also opened up about his journey to sobriety and how he started drinking when global boy band mania meant they were often stuck in hotel rooms, where alcohol was available.
‘For me it’s like when we were in the band. The best way to protect ourselves was to lock ourselves in our rooms, and what is in the room? A minibar,” he continued.
“So I had a party for one that seemed to go on for many years of my life, and then you remember how long have you been drinking?” And my goodness, that’s a long time, even for someone as young as me.
In multiple interviews, Liam said he had consumed alcohol to cope with both One Direction’s massive success and their subsequent split, telling Men’s Health Australia in 2019 that “it’s hard when you have the level of fame we had in the band.” “. .
Years later, he explained how it was when he attended a Hans Zimmer concert in January 2023 that he was inspired to stop drinking.
He shared, “I was watching this beautiful symphony, I was having a drink, and I thought, ‘You know what? This really doesn’t do me any good. I really don’t need this right now.'”
“It’s the first time I’ve put down a drink and told someone else, ‘You finish this, I don’t need it right now.'” And I haven’t bought one since, it’s been almost six months now, which I’m excited about.”
‘It’s good. “It’s good to be in this position,” he added. ‘I definitely don’t need those things anymore. The party’s over.
The singer died instantly from injuries that included a fractured skull when he fell 45 feet from a hotel balcony at the Hotel Casa Sur in Argentina on Wednesday. In the photo: one of his last selfies.
Following his promise to continue his sobriety, fans feared for the singer’s health following a series of worrying signs that included an erratic red carpet appearance, hospitalization for a kidney infection, and canceled concerts.
Liam made his last social media post in May, in which he posted a photo of One Direction with the late American filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who died on May 23, and thanked him for directing the 1D documentary This Is Us.
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Liam reportedly fell from a hotel balcony in Buenos, Argentina, on Wednesday around 5 pm (ART).
Liam had arrived in Argentina earlier this month for his former bandmate Niall Horan’s concert with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy, who left two days ago while he stayed.
Since then, crowds of excited fans have gathered to pay their respects to the pop star outside the hotel.
Buenos Aires police said they were initially responding to a 911 call “from an aggressive man who may have been under the influence of drugs and alcohol.”
Authorities heard a loud sound in the yard before discovering his body shortly after 5 p.m., the BBC reported.
According to TMZ, Liam “had been acting erratically in the hotel lobby and smashed his laptop” before he “had to be taken back to his room.”
Police had received a call from a hotel worker requesting urgent help for a drunk guest, according to audio related to the case obtained from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security.
Liam had arrived in Argentina earlier this month for his former bandmate Niall Horan’s concert (both pictured) with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy, who left two days ago while he stayed.
“When he’s conscious, he’s destroying the entire room and we need someone to be sent,” the worker said.
City ambulance service spokesman Alberto Crescenti said Liam had fallen about 40 meters and suffered “serious injuries that were incompatible with life.”
He said: ‘The alarm was raised at 5:04 pm local time saying that a person was lying in an internal courtyard of Casa Sur.
‘At 5:11 pm an ambulance arrived and the man was certified dead.
‘Later we discovered that he had been a famous singer. Unfortunately, the injuries he had suffered as a result of the fall proved fatal. There was no possibility of resuscitating him.’
His body was taken to the local morgue where an autopsy was performed.