Liam Payne spoke candidly about his struggles with fame and psychological well being within the years earlier than his demise.
Warning: This text accommodates references to suicidal ideas.
The previous One Route star died after falling from the third flooring of a resort within the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
Officers in Argentina haven’t given any additional particulars about how the singer got here to fall from the balcony.
The 31-year-old beforehand mirrored on his life within the public eye and the loneliness and psychological well being struggles he had skilled on the 2019 Sky present Ant Middleton And Liam Payne: Straight Speaking.
“For some certain circumstances – I’m quite lucky to be here still, which is something I’ve never really shared with anyone,” he mentioned.
“I can’t go too deep into it because I don’t know how I feel myself. I still haven’t made my peace with it, to be honest.”
When Middleton, a former soldier and TV persona, mentioned he had been “on the cusp myself,” Payne replied: “You’ve probably been through the same situations.
“There’s occasions the place that degree of loneliness and other people entering into you day by day. Simply occasionally, you are like, when will this finish?
“That’s almost nearly killed me a couple of times.”
Payne mentioned he was “lucky to have really great people” round him to assist him by and mentioned it was about “finding a different way to look at it”.
“Like you say, when things start to pile on top of each other, that’s when it can really get you,” he added.
“You’ve really got to change your view about it. There’s only one thing you control in that situation, it’s you.”
He defined his coping mechanism: “Just get on with it. Just do today.
“Get on with that bit, then there will be one other hurdle in a number of months or a number of weeks, or possibly even the subsequent day. You by no means actually know.”
