Several eyewitnesses commented on Liam Payne’s tragic death in Buenos Aires on October 16th as part of an investigative report. This includes a man who was also a guest at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, where Payne fell from the third floor and died as a result of the impact. A friend of the singer and a hotel employee also described their role in his drug use shortly before the incident.
The sound of the impact still lingers
In the documentary “TMZ Presents: Liam Payne: Who’s to Blame?”, which airs today (October 16) at 8 p.m. on FOX, Bret Watson, among others, has his say. He was in a room on the first floor of the hotel with his wedding planner and watched Liam’s free fall with her as they looked out the window. When they looked down, all they could have seen was that he was dead. “Seeing someone fall like that is heartbreaking, but hearing them hit the ground is even more shocking,” Watson says, his voice faltering. “It’s something that’s burned into my brain.”
Apparently he and the wedding guests noticed how the former One Direction singer became increasingly drunk and erratic as the day went on. He was the last witness who saw hotel employees carrying him by his arms and legs from the lobby to his room.
The friend and waiter did not stop Payne’s drug use
In contrast, Roger Noris – a friend of Payne’s who prosecutors plan to charge with neglect, according to TMZ – claims he was in a good mood and just a little tipsy an hour before the fall. According to official documents allegedly available to the magazine, the singer even texted Nores earlier in the day that he needed six grams of cocaine.
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Prosecutors also want to charge Braian Paiz, a waiter at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, with supplying drugs to Liam. The 24-year-old told TMZ that he visited Liam twice during his stay and each time drank whiskey and took cocaine with him. However, he insists that he neither arranged for it nor insisted on payment.