Even though Maya Henry recently served former One Direction singer Liam Payne with a cease-and-desist letter because she said her ex-fiancé wouldn’t stop contacting her and “weaponizing” his fans against her, she said she was still worried about him, given that he repeatedly told her, “I’m not well” and predicted “he would die early.”
During a podcast interview released two days before Payne’s fatal fall from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina Wednesday, Henry said the troubled 31-year-old British singer would barrage her and her family with worrying calls and messages. Henry, 23, said she once tried to get him help “but he was not taking it.”
“He would always message me, ever since we broke up, ‘Oh, I’m not well,” Henry said on “The Internet is Dead” podcast episode released Monday, according to Entertainment Tonight. The Texas-born model began dating Payne in 2019 when she was 18, and they became engaged during a “stop-start,” three-year love affair that ended in 2022, according to the Daily Mail.
“He would always play with death, and be like ‘Well I’m going to die, I’m not doing well,’” Henry also said on the podcast. “I know the lifestyle that he lives and there is a day that something is going to happen.”
Payne died Wednesday after falling multiple stories at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires. A 911 call from the hotel, placed about 10 minutes before Payne’s death, reported that a guest had taken “too many drugs and alcohol” and was in his hotel room, “trashing the whole room,” the BBC, People and other outlets reported. The caller, identified as the hotel’s chief receptionist, said that police needed to come “urgently” because the room had a balcony and the guest “may be in danger.”
Local authorities told People that Payne jumped from the balcony and that he died from multiple internal and external injuries. While an investigation is underway to determine the circumstances surrounding Payne’s death, the singer had been pretty open in recent years about his struggles with drugs, alcohol and social anxiety amid the crushing pressures of global fame, the Daily Mail reported. In 2023, he revealed to his fans that he was six months sober after spending 100 days in a Louisiana rehab facility.
Like the rest of the world, Henry learned about Payne’s death Wednesday. A source close to her told the Daily Mail: “Right now, she is obviously in shock.”
OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 22: Liam Payne and Maya Henry attend the gala dinner in honour of Edward Enninful, winner of the Global VOICES Award 2019, during #BoFVOICES on November 22, 2019 in Oxfordshire, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/Getty Images for The Business of Fashion)
On the same day that Henry’s podcast interview was released, her lawyers confirmed to the Daily Mail that she had issued a cease-and-desist letter to Payne, “following the emergence of new and concerning information.”
In both the podcast episode and in a TikTok video released Oct. 6, Henry talked …read more
Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment
