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Speaker 1: The death of Liam Payne came as a shock yesterday,

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Speaker 1: of course, off the balcony of the third floor room

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Speaker 1: in the hotel and Juanas here as the UK entertainment

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Speaker 1: reporter Josh rom with us from London. Morning mate, Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you guys over in New Zealand. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what. Having a look at some of those photos

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Speaker 1: from the hotel room, it's an ugly scene, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's absolutely horrendous, seeing funny enough a random soap

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Speaker 2: box amidst all the what looks to be like drug

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Speaker 2: paraphernalia smashed up laptops. We knew from local reports when

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Speaker 2: the news was being revealed overnight, so to speak, that

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Speaker 2: Liam Payne was acting reportedly acting, I should say, erratically

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Speaker 2: before he was taken back up to his room. There

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Speaker 2: were reports of an aggressive man who was intoxicated on

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Speaker 2: either alcohol or another substance. Those were the reports that

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Speaker 2: were going through two local emergency services in Argentina. Quite

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Speaker 2: disturbing and quite concerning facts coming out from Buenos Aire's.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, and plenty to worry about in these recent days.

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Speaker 1: On social media, if you follow him, what's gone wrong

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Speaker 1: with his life?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Well, recently, Liam had a lot of personal problems

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Speaker 2: when it came to his career. He recently split parted

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Speaker 2: ways with management. We know that plans for his second

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Speaker 2: studio album were shelved. We know that he's had problems

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Speaker 2: in the studio rewriting his tracks. We also know that

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Speaker 2: his ex girlfriend Maya Henry was going to issue could

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Speaker 2: she consulted lawyers to issue a cease and desist order

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Speaker 2: to Liam because reportedly he was contacting her persistently, as

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Speaker 2: well as her friends and even her mother when it

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Speaker 2: came to their relationship. We heard it's been rumored that

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Speaker 2: Maya Henry was going to release a book. It wasn't

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Speaker 2: necessarily nonfiction book. It was a fiction story but clearly

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Speaker 2: based on their relationship, about a woman who fell in

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Speaker 2: love with a pop star. So we know that there

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Speaker 2: was problems with his personal life, problems with his professional life.

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Speaker 2: He's also been very open and honest previously about the

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Speaker 2: mental health problems that he himself suffered and also problems

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Speaker 2: that he's reportedly faced with either alcohol or drug abuse.

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Speaker 2: We know that he's had kidney issues. We also know

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Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty two he had on one hundred

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Speaker 2: days stay in a rehab facility in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: In July, he said that he was six months sober.

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Speaker 2: So all of these facts coming together do start to

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Speaker 2: build up a rather concerning picture. Bearing in mind though

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Speaker 2: he did seem to have a good time in recent

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Speaker 2: days in Argentina. He was there supporting his former One

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Speaker 2: Direction bandmate Nile Horan on his world tour. He was

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Speaker 2: posing various lovely posts with his current girlfriend Kate Cassidy

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Speaker 2: on social media as well, having breakfasts, living a very

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Speaker 2: fun existence, very fun life, having a good time over

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Speaker 2: in Argentina as well. So again very mixed messages.

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Speaker 1: Listen day, it's a shocking miss Josh appreciate Josh Rahm

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Speaker 1: out of London this morning.

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