Two women who spent time with Liam Payne in the hours before his death have described his increasingly erratic behaviour.
The sworn witness statements of two sex workers who joined One Direction star have been shared by the Daily Mail.
They describe in detail the condition of his Buenos Aires hotel room, Payne’s alleged substance use, and the behaviour they witnessed before leaving shortly before 4 pm.
Payne died 67 minutes later, after falling from the balcony of his third-floor room at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel. He was 31.
According to the statements, Aldana Serrano and Lucila Goitea arrived at the CasaSur Palermo at approximately 11.30 am after Payne allegedly contacted Serrano through an escort website.
The women claimed Payne ordered champagne for them and two bottles of Johnnie Walker Black Label whisky for himself. Goitea also alleged that they observed him handling illicit substances.
“We saw that he was doing something like crystal meth with bits of tinfoil,” she claimed. The witness described Payne’s room as “a mess”.
“There was tinfoil everywhere with traces of drugs. A drawer was full of it, there was more burned tinfoil on the couch, a lot of clothes thrown around, he smelled of alcohol,” she revealed.
After about two hours, the women reportedly asked Payne for the money he had promised them. Payne reportedly offered them his gold Rolex, but the women said they wanted to be paid with cash. According to their statements, the singer then smashed the watch and punched the television in his room.
After the women left, Payne fell to his death at 5:07 pm.
Investigators ultimately determined that the singer was likely in a state of semi or total unconsciousness when he fell due to the combination of substances in his system.
