Liam, 31, had messaged Jodie on Monday to ask her what she was doing. She replied to say she was together with her son, Jackson, at a gymnasium, and Liam replied “nice”.
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Liam Payne with Jodie Richards. Pic: Jodie Richards
He later despatched her a photograph of himself sitting on his mattress in his lodge room within the Argentinian capital, together with his hand to his brow. She replied: “Sorry just home x.”
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“We speak near enough every day and have done for years. Obviously he’s always been there at times I’ve needed him even though he’s not local.”
On Wednesday, Liam messaged Jodie within the early hours of the morning UK time to ask if she was awake – she later replied that she was at 8.20am.
She requested if he was okay, he replied “yeah” and he or she instructed him she’d simply started working. He instructed her he was “chilling” in Argentina.
“He was looking forward to his day, he said he was having a chill, nothing seemed out of the ordinary”, the 41-year-old, from the West Midlands, mentioned.
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Pic: Jodie Richards
“He is all the time someplace extra glamorous than we’re so LA, Argentina, I’ve to have a look at the time distinction to see the place he’s, he often texts me and it is the center of our evening.
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Liam Payne with Jodie’s son Jackson. Pic: Jodie Richards
‘Inform me this is not true’
Jodie mentioned she “couldn’t believe” what was taking place.
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The lifetime of Liam Payne
Jodie texted Liam, saying: “Please tell me this isn’t true!”
“It’s a wicked waste of a life, he had a future ahead of him,” she mentioned, including that “family, friends, everyone loved him. It’s a real tragedy not only for us as friends and family but the whole world who know him as a celebrity and a pop singer.
“Clearly he is received a really supportive mum and pa, his two sisters, I do know he speaks very extremely of Cheryl [Tweedy], he is received a girlfriend… he is received sufficient folks to achieve out to and he would have.
“He’s always got help if he needed it but as far as I’m concerned he was in a good place with everything going on in his personal life and his career as well, he had new things on the horizon on the telly and he seemed happy.”
Jodie mentioned she would keep in mind him as a “cheeky chappy” who would “make everyone laugh”.
“I just want people to look at Liam, look at everything, the legacy he’s left through X Factor, all his charity work and just remember him for the absolute idol he is.”
