ONE Direction star Niall Horan has revealed fellow singer Liam Payne was on good kind once they met backstage at a gig — days earlier than his tragic dying.
The Irish star additionally admitted he struggled to come back to phrases along with his bandmate’s demise.
He revealed he turned a recluse, switching from shock to unhappiness and anger on the information.
Niall was the final member of The X Factor boyband to see Liam.
They frolicked backstage on the Movistar Arena in Colombia on October 9, 2024, the place Niall, 32, was taking part in a sold-out solo gig.
Every week later Liam, 31, plunged to his dying from the balcony of his suite on the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Speaking about their assembly, Niall stated: “It was great. [He] seemed in good form and we had a good laugh, good reminisce.”
He advised GQ journal how he discovered his pal had died, saying: “I simply keep in mind getting a message. And I was similar to, What? . . . I simply didn’t think it was actual.
“Someone so young, you’re not expecting to hear they’ve passed, especially someone that you’ve just seen. I just went back from shock to sadness to anger.”
Afterwards, he “went into hiding a little bit”.
He additionally revealed he has written a tune known as End of an Era — for his upcoming album Dinner Party — about dropping Liam.
On it, Niall sings: “We had it. Pure magic. Remember what it was like. Time passes. So fast and — I couldn’t tell you goodbye.”
Niall stated: “The older I get, the extra grateful I’ve change into for what I’ve had. Not that I wasn’t grateful earlier than — however I was blown away.
“Just taking it in now at 30-odd is sort of a cool factor.
“To look back and look at all the photos, the videos, think about what you did. It’s pretty nuts. It’s crazy.”
Niall and Liam met on The X Factor in 2010 and have become One Direction — the largest Brit band since the Beatles — with Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles and Zayn Malik.
Liam was vocal about his struggles with booze and drugs within the yr earlier than his dying.
His £24.3million fortune will go to Bear, who turns 9 on Sunday, his son with ex-singer Cheryl Tweedy, 42.
Meanwhile the probe into Liam’s dying continues.
Prosecutors stated he snorted and smoked cocaine in his room “up to a few minutes before his death”.
The reason behind dying was a number of trauma, inner and exterior bleeding. Cocaine, alcohol in addition to an antidepressant have been present in his blood.
Cleaner Ezequiel David Pereyra, 22, and waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz, 25, are accused of supplying cocaine.
