HIS LAST PHOTOS: How One Direction's Liam Payne Died: The True Story

Liam Payne died after falling from the third floor of his hotel in Buenos Aires on October 16, 2024.

Medical professionals who attended to him on the scene have revealed the cause of his death. Payne died instantly after his fall due to multiple injuries, including a fractured skull. 

Alberto Crescenti shared that his team got to the scene as fast as possible to give him medical attention and resuscitate him but they couldn't as he had died due to the severity of his state. 

"Based on what the team saw, there was apparently a cranial fracture and extremely serious injuries that led to his immediate death," he explained. 

Crescenti confirmed that Liam Payne had fallen into the hotel's internal patio but did not address claims regarding his possible intoxication or drug use. 

He emphasized that authorities were still waiting for the autopsy results and advised against making premature conclusions. 

After his death, his body stayed at the hotel for over three hours before it was taken away at 8:38 p.m. local time. He was transported to a city morgue on Viamonte Street last night (October 16), located about a 15-minute drive southwest of the boutique hotel. 

If it is confirmed that narcotics were found in the singer's hotel room and contributed to his death, authorities are likely to investigate who provided the drugs, with a potential prosecution to follow. While many details remain unclear, several Argentinian newspapers have published photos from inside Payne's deluxe suite. 

The images revealed a burnt fizzy drink can, traces of a white powder speculated to be cocaine, and pieces of aluminum foil on the desk. 

A crumpled, burnt piece of aluminum foil was also found in the bathroom, and the TV screen in the room had been shattered. 

More information about the tragic night has emerged, including the details of a distressing 911 call made by a panicked hotel manager requesting immediate assistance prior to Payne's death. 

Argentinian police responded to the hotel on October 16, 2024, after staff reported concerns about a man behaving aggressively, potentially under the influence of drugs or alcohol. 

The head of reception made two calls, initially reporting that a guest was causing significant damage to his room. In a second call, following a disconnection, he urged, "We need to send someone with urgency because I don't know if the guest's life is in danger because he is in a room with balcony, and we are afraid he could do something that threatens life." 

Several hotel guests confirmed that the singer was seen falling from the third-floor balcony just after 5 p.m., although it remains unclear whether this was accidental or intentional. Payne had been in Argentina earlier in the month to reunite with his former One Direction bandmate, Niall Horan, who was having a concert. 

The 31-year-old singer had been a key member of the globally successful boy band, joining the group at age 16 when they were launched on "The X Factor." 

They achieved massive international fame before disbanding in 2015. Payne is survived by his son, Bear, whom he shares with singer Cheryl Cole. 

A young woman staying in the same hotel said she was told by the former One Direction singer just minutes before he died: 'I used to be in a boy band - that's why I'm so f**ked up'. 

In her compelling account, Rebecca, one of the last people to speak to the popstar at the Casa Sur Hotel in the Argentine capital on Wednesday, claimed that Payne showed 'disturbing and weird behaviour' as he smashed his laptop on the floor; Grabbed a young woman and pretended to choke her in the hotel lift; and Was accompanied by an 'entourage' of two women and a man. 

Rebecca, not her real name, a 28-year-old IT consultant from Washington DC, took these haunting photographs of Payne in the lobby shortly before his death. 

She said his bizarre behaviour and its horrific aftermath had left her 'shaken'. 

As tributes continued to pour in for Payne, including from his former bandmates: Rebecca's surprise 30-minute long encounter with Payne took place in the foyer of the hotel, where she was staying for a wedding. 

Payne had been due to check out on Wednesday morning, but still had not done so by late afternoon, she claimed. Rebecca took her photos from 4.26pm local time (8.26pm UK time) - which is also when Payne made the 'boy band' comment. Just 36 minutes later, hotel staff raised the alarm at 5.04pm following Payne's fall. 

An ambulance arrived at 5.11pm and Payne was then certified dead. 

Rebecca told MailOnline in an exclusive interview: 

'One of my friends was due to get his suite, so the hotel staff were a little on edge because he still hadn't checked out at 4.30pm, but also because of his behaviour. 

'I came into the hotel, and he was waiting by the elevator, and it was so clear he wanted someone to recognise him, there was something a bit desperate about him. 'I was with my friends and we did know who he was, but none of us were that bothered. 

'When the lift came he suddenly said to us without any prompting: 'Yes, I'm Liam!' really drawing it out, and then said 'All right come on you lot, get in the elevator with me, I love a cuddle'. 

'I decided against it and waited for the next one, but some of the other girls got in with him and half way up, he started saying 'Oh, you're Americans, I live in West Palm Beach. 'I know Americans. You guys are f***ing crazy! You guys are f***ing dangerous! '

And then he grabs a girl who I think was with him and starts fake choking her, only lightly, but the others thought it was really disturbing.' 

Rebecca said she returned to the lobby ten minutes later and shortly afterwards, Payne arrived back, dangling his open laptop nonchalantly from one corner. 

He then began reading emails after flopping onto a sofa, wearing a white vest, cargo pants and trainers. 'I have a blind relative and I realised he had the laptop on its accessibility setting, for some reason, so that each time he moved the mouse, hovering over something the machine spoke out loud to say where the cursor was,' said Rebecca. 

'I assumed he was doing that for the attention too. Then he opened his emails and saw one which obviously upset him. Suddenly he took the computer, shouted 'f**k this s**t mate!' and started bashing the computer on the ground. 'Everyone, especially the staff was really shocked. It's a high-end hotel and his behaviour was so out of place - people were just chilling. 'I went over, asked 'are you OK?' 

But he just kind of grunted. Then he said 'I used to be in a boyband. That's why I'm so f**ked up.' 'I couldn't believe he'd just come out and said something like that. 

There was a lot more swearing and he took the laptop over and went to get back in the lift. 'After he'd gone, the guy from his entourage, who I think was called Roger, came over and apologised on his behalf, saying 'I'm sorry, he just gets so high sometimes'. 'I did wonder what these people with him were doing to help him, but maybe they had tried and failed. 

The hotel staff were freaking out and watching him really nervously. I could see one of them was on the phone to what I assumed was security or the police. 'I've never taken cocaine, but he was behaving exactly as I'd imagine someone would on the drug – he wasn't focusing, and his pupils were dilated, and he was behaving in aggressive way – though not to anyone in particular.' 

Rebecca couldn't work out why Payne was hanging around the lobby but wondered afterwards whether he was planning to meet someone to resupply his drugs. 

Then after a few minutes, he returned to the lobby, she recalled. Rebecca said: 'He walked in again and just tripped and fell flat on his face, sprawling across the floor. The staff came to help him and get him back in the elevator, and that's when I took the last photo. 'You can just see the arm of the English guy who was with him, holding the lift door open before taking them up to the third floor again. 'It wasn't long after that when the police arrived and initially we thought they were just going to kick him out, but then when the staff started running around like crazy, we suddenly realised the seriousness of what had happened. 

'Some of my friends had seen him falling, it was awful, and at first they thought he might have just injured himself, but then we saw the body out in the courtyard, and later they brought him out on a stretcher, it was all so horrible.' 

Rebecca said that after the horrific experience, she spent Wednesday night with friends away from the hotel, partly because of what had happened, but also the noise of teenage fans outside in the street singing and crying. 

She added: 'They were playing his music all night and someone actually brought along a Ouija board to try and communicate with Liam, it was crazy.' Payne, who rose to fame with One Direction on The X Factor, died after falling from a third floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel on Wednesday. 

He died of multiple traumas and 'internal and external haemorrhage', a post-mortem examination report said. 

Argentina's National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No 16 said it was investigating the incident as an 'inconclusive death' following the report.

Liam Payne's rise to fame and career timeline:

• 2008: Liam auditions for The X-Factor at 14 years old and is told to come back in two years by Simon Cowell. 
• 2010: Liam returns to The X-Factor auditions and is placed in a group with Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles, forming One Direction. The band place third in the competition.
• September 2011: One Direction's debut single, 'What Makes You Beautiful' goes to number one in the UK and around the world. Since then, the band have had 14 top ten hits in the UK and four number-one albums on the Billboard 200.
• December 2011: Liam embarks on his first world tour with One Direction. 
• November 2012: One Direction releases their second album, Take Me Home. 
• August 2013: The band's documentary film One Direction: This Is Us, hit the big screen, with thousands of fans supporting the film at its premiere in London's Leicester Square. 
• November 2013: One Direction releases their third album, Midnight Memories. 
• December 2016: One Direction announce their indefinite hiatus.
• May 2017: Liam releases his debut single, 'Strip That Down', in May. 
• December 2019: Liam releases his first and only album, LP1, which reaches the top 20 in the UK.
• March 2023: Liam releases a comeback single, 'Teardrops'. 
• October 2023: Reports that Liam's second studio album has been put on hold.
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We are all still heartbroken, may Liam Payne's beautiful soul rest in perfect peace- AMEN.