“I was with him the day that he passed away”: Liam Payne’s Friend’s Comments Raises Suspicion on the Singer’s Death

The world was taken aback when the news of the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne broke out. His seemingly usual trip to Argentina was the beginning of a complicated and still unsolved incident that has his fans and the media looking for answers.

In the ongoing investigations, the reason for Payne’s death became a sequence of contradictory statements, some alleged proofs, and more questions. It has only gotten more complicated than before when his friend Roger Nores came up with his side of the story.

Roger Nores paints a different picture of Liam Payne before his death

Liam Payne passed away after falling from the third floor of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires on October 2, 2024. Before his death, the singer was even seen at the concert of his ex-band member Niall Horan. The initial local reports of the circumstances that led to his death painted quite a complex picture.

The Buenos Aires Security Ministry’s communications director, Pablo Policicchio, told The Associated Press that Payne “had jumped from the balcony of his room.” Emergency services were alerted due to a call for an “aggressive man who could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.”

It was also reported that the hotel manager in his 911 call described a guest “overwhelmed with drugs and alcohol” who was “destroying the entire room.” However, Roger Nores, a businessman from Argentina who had been friends with Payne since 2020, has a different story to share.

In his interview with TMZ, Nores dismissed the claims of Payne being in an uncontrolled state. He said,

I’m a very good friend of Liam, and I was with him the day that he passed away. He was in good spirits. He was like talking to 10 or 15 Americans that were here for a wedding. And so he was talking to them, and he was joking around.

I left like at 4:05, or so, and he was in good spirits. He was perfectly balanced, like talking to everybody, having fun, laughing, so nothing out of the ordinary and that’s when I said, ‘Okay, bye’.

According to The Mirror, the Argentine public prosecutor’s office accused Nores of “abandonment of a person followed by death,” which could lead to serious jail time if found guilty. However, so far, Nores has denied any accusations by stating that he left the singer in the company of many people in the hotel lobby.

Roger Nores blames Liam Payne’s hotel

Roger Nores and his lawyers have reportedly accused the staff of CasaSur Palermo Hotel of negligence in Payne’s death. TMZ reported that they accused the hotel of not ensuring his safety despite knowing Payne was “on a bender for three days.” 

In the documents, Nores reportedly said,

A world-famous person was staying with obvious signs of being going through a crisis caused by drug intake at that very moment, and they did not even make an effort there to make up for their legal omission of having a 24-hour doctor.

Moreover, the alleged evidence that was found in Payne’s room only complicates the situation even more. Some of the pictures include items like a damaged TV screen, scattered items, candles, matches, aluminum foil, and a white powdery substance suspected to be drugs.

The National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office stated Payne’s system contained “alcohol, cocaine, and prescription antidepressants.” Furthermore, they reportedly ruled out the suicide possibility, stating, “In the state he was in, he did not know what he was doing and could not understand it.”

So far, no confirmed report has come out clarifying whether this was an accidental death or an act of suicide. New updates and reports that are released open up new complexities as everyone continues to wait for a conclusive explanation.