Liam Payne revealed details of his One Direction fame in comments which have resurfaced after his tragic death at the age of 31.

The singer died instantly from injuries including a fractured skull when he fell 45ft from a third floor balcony at the Casa Sur Hotel in Argentina on Wednesday.

Alberto Crescenti, head of the Buenos Aires emergency services, said Liam had a ‘cranial fracture and extremely serious injuries that led to his immediate death’.

Following the devastating news of his death, fans have been revisited past videos and interviews of the beloved pop star.

Now, comments which Liam made about his worldwide fame and how he tried to be the ‘good boy’ of One Direction have resurfaced.

In a 2015 interview with the Herald Sun, Liam said he was the ‘chilled’ member of One Direction when compared to his bandmates Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik.

Speaking just weeks before the band’s January 2016 split, Liam said he had gone a ‘little bit crazy’ after trying to maintain the ‘good boy’ image since rising to fame.

‘I was a bit more chilled out back then and now I’m not, I went a little bit crazy,’ he told the publication at the time.

Liam Payne (pictured in March) revealed details of his One Direction fame in comments which have resurfaced after his tragic death at the age of 31

‘I was trying to be the good boy when I was a lad, that’s how people saw me. Now, not so much.’

Liam confessed his carefree attitude had seen him and his bandmate Louis get in some difficult spots because he used to be the one to talk them out of the situations.

‘And that puts me and Louis in a lot of tricky situations, the ones that I used to try to get us out of. Now I say ”f**k it”,’ he added.

Liam rose to fame on The X Factor at the age of 16, when he was put in a boy band with Harry, Niall, Zayn and Louis in what would become One Direction, one of the most successful boy bands in music history.

The band shot to global acclaim in 2010 and won the hearts of thousands of adoring teenage fans, selling more than 70million records worldwide.

Liam was very outspoken about how his global fame with One Direction changed his life and affected his relationship with drugs and alcohol. 

Speaking to Stephen Bartlett on the Diary Of The CEO Podcast in 2021, he shared: ‘I was worried how far my rock bottom was going to be. Where’s rock bottom for me? And you would never have seen it. I’m very good at hiding it.

‘I don’t even know if I have hit it yet. I can either make that choice now and pick my last moment as my rock bottom or I can make a whole new low.’

Following his death, comments which Liam (pictured in 2010) made about his worldwide fame and how he tried to be the ‘good boy’ of One Direction have resurfaced

In 2015, Liam said he tried to be the ‘chilled’ member of One Direction when compared to his bandmates Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik (L-R in 2010)

He admitted he had suffered for years with ‘social anxiety’ from being famous, and discussed the pressure his mental health was under while not having the freedom to go anywhere as a boy band member.

Liam also talked about his journey to sobriety, and how his drinking began when the global mania for the boy band meant they were often stuck in hotel rooms, where alcohol was readily available.

‘It feels to me, like when we were in the band. The best way to secure us was to lock us in our rooms, and what is in the room? A mini-bar,’ he continued.

‘So I had a party-for-one that seemed to carry on for many years of my life, and then you look back at how long you’ve been drinking? And Jesus Christ that’s a long time, even for someone as young as I am.’

In multiple interviews, Liam said he’d used alcohol to cope with both the massive success of One Direction and their subsequent split, telling Men’s Health Australia in 2019 that ‘it’s difficult when you have the level of fame that we had in the band’.

Years later, he explained how it was when he attended a Hans Zimmer concert in January 2023 that he was inspired to give up drinking.

He shared: ‘I watching this beautiful symphony, I was having a drink, and I thought, ”You know what? This isn’t really serving me at all. I don’t really need this right now”.’

‘It’s the first time I’ve ever put a drink down and gone to someone else, ‘You finish this, I don’t need this right now.’ And I haven’t picked one up since, which has almost been six months, which I’m excited about.’

‘It’s good. It’s good to be in this position,’ he added. ‘I definitely don’t need those things anymore. The party’s over.’

The singer died instantly from injuries including a fractured skull when he fell 45ft from a hotel balcony at the Casa Sur Hotel in Argentina on Wednesday. Pictured: One of his final selfies

After his pledge to continue his sobriety, fans feared for the singer’s health following a string of worrying signs including an erratic red carpet appearance, hospitalisation for a kidney infection, and cancelled gigs.

Liam made his final post to social media in May, in which he posted a photo of One Direction with the late American filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who died on May 23, and thanked him for directing the 1D This Is Us documentary.

It comes as:

Liam reportedly fell from a hotel balcony in Buenos, Argentina, on Wednesday around 5pm (ART).

Liam had arrived in Argentina earlier this month for his ex-bandmate Niall Horan’s concert with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy, who left two days ago while he stayed on.

A crowd of emotional fans have since come together to pay their respects to the pop star outside the hotel.

Police in Buenos Aires said they were initially responding to a 911 call ‘of an aggressive man who may have been under the effects of drugs and alcohol’.

Officials heard a loud sound in the courtyard before discovering his body just after 5pm, reported the BBC.

According to TMZ, Liam ‘had been acting erratic in the hotel lobby and smashed his laptop’ before he ‘had to be carried back to his room’.

Police had received a call from a worker at the hotel requesting urgent help with an intoxicated guest, according to audio related to the case obtained from the Buenos Aires security ministry.

Liam had arrived in Argentina earlier this month for his ex-bandmate Niall Horan’s concert (both pictured) with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy , who left two days ago while he stayed on

‘When he is conscious he is destroying the entire room and we need you to send someone,’ the worker said.

City ambulance service provider spokesman Alberto Crescenti said Liam had fallen about 40 metres and suffered ‘severe injuries which were incompatible with life’.

He said: ‘The alarm was raised at 5.04pm local time saying a person was lying in an internal patio at Casa Sur.

‘At 5.11pm an ambulance arrived and the man was certified dead.

‘Afterwards we found out he had been a famous singer. Unfortunately the injuries he had suffered as a result of the fall proved to be fatal. There was no possibility of resuscitating him.’

His body was transported to a local morgue where a post-mortem examination was carried out.