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Liam Payne, who roseate to fame arsenic portion of the British lad set One Direction, has died astatine property 31 portion visiting Argentina.
By Lindsay Weinberg Oct 16, 2024 9:54 PMTags
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Directioners are saying goodbye to Liam Payne.
The erstwhile One Direction bandmate died aft falling from a edifice successful Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to Good Morning America and CNN, citing police. He was 31.
Two hours earlier quality broke, Payne shared a photograph connected Snapchat of himself with woman Kate Cassidy in aquatics cogwheel arsenic they smiled for a reflector selfie.
Payne roseate to fame in 2010 erstwhile helium was grouped with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik to signifier One Direction on The X Factor. While the set finished 3rd place, they went connected to spot monolithic occurrence starting with their debut azygous "What Makes You Beautiful" arsenic portion of their debut medium Up All Night successful 2011.
However, Payne was candid astir the difficulties of becoming a personage truthful young successful life.
"Fame made maine a small spot nuts and distracted maine a batch from the idiosyncratic I was," helium told #Legend magazine successful 2018. "And it pissed maine disconnected successful the end, due to the fact that it was like, 'You could person been this guy, but you chose to bash this.' Nobody truly knew thing astir me. I enactment connected a beforehand that wasn't truly me."
That's wherefore the determination to officially disband the radical successful 2016—one twelvemonth aft Malik departed—was a invited change.
"I retrieve the time we finished, due to the fact that of the spot I was in, I was rather blessed that we had a break," Payne shared. "I said to the idiosyncratic with maine astatine the time, 'Thank God I don't person to play that idiosyncratic again for a agelong time.' It was exhausting and I couldn't support up with myself."
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Payne—who shares 7-year-old lad Bear Grey Payne with his ex Cheryl Cole—explained that being a portion of the set besides caused him to person suicidal ideation and problems with alcohol.
"I was disquieted however acold my stone bottommost was going to be," helium explained connected The Diary of a CEO podcast successful 2021. "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."
"It was really, really, truly severe," helium added of his intelligence wellness issues. "And it was a problem. And it was lone until I saw myself aft that, I was similar 'Right, I request to hole myself.'"
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