Liam Payne was having fun with former One Route bandmate Niall Horan’s Oct. 2 live performance two weeks earlier than his loss of life.
On Oct. 16, Payne died after falling a number of tales at a resort in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Policía Federal Argentina beforehand confirmed to PEOPLE. He was 31.
A fan of the late singer named Noelia completely tells PEOPLE that main as much as Payne’s loss of life, she had a couple of interactions with him whereas he was in Buenos Aires.
“I bumped into him by probability. I had discovered on Twitter that he was right here for Niall’s present,” she tells PEOPLE. “We took images collectively. I waited for him to strategy us, and we took photos with all of the followers,” Noelia says, including, “He talked to us, hugged us, and even made jokes.”
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Payne attended Horan’s Oct. 2 present on the Movistar Area, which Noelia additionally attended. There she says, “he was dancing, waving, and cheering.”
“When Niall began singing one of many One Route songs, everybody was Liam,” she recollects. “He appeared to be having fun with himself.”
A fan captured a video of Payne clapping alongside to the music at his former bandmate’s gig and leaning over the sting of a glass barrier whereas posing for followers’ images and movies, per Pop Crave.
Noelia reveals that followers got here to the resort, and there he “took images with everybody.” She notes, “Nothing unusual or uncommon about his conduct.”
Nonetheless, she stated he was “requested to depart the resort as a result of followers had been consistently gathering on the door, bothering different friends.”
The singer then stayed at an condo, which Noelia says might have belonged to a good friend. Throughout his keep there, he would exit to dinner and “take photos with followers ready exterior,” and “was all the time open to it, full of affection.”
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Payne died two weeks after the live performance after he fell a number of tales on the CasaSur Palermo Resort in Buenos Aires. Payne died from a number of accidents and “inside and exterior” hemorrhages of the cranium, thorax, stomach and limbs, in keeping with a preliminary post-mortem report.
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Following his loss of life a number of celebrities have paid tribute to the singer, together with his former bandmates.
Horan, Harry Kinds, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson shared a joint statement on Instagram stating they’re processing “the lack of our brother.” Shortly after, Malik, 32, Tomlinson, 31, and Kinds, 30, every launched particular person statements.
