Liam Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, continues to suffer as more details about the late singer’s death surface online.
On Friday, the Daily Mail published disturbing images from CCTV footage of the late One Direction member being carried through the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, seemingly just before his tragic death on Oct. 16, according to a timestamp on the footage.
Per the outlet, Payne had been “convulsing” in the lobby in the hour before his death as a result of the singer’s drug use.
“He could have been saved, he could have been helped,” a close friend of Cassidy, 25, exclusively told The Post. “It’s devastating — and infuriating.”
The pal added, “Whenever it seems it can’t get more painful for Kate, it gets even more painful.”
The footage appears to show two hotel guests walking by as three men — two dressed in suits and a third more casually with a backpack — carried Payne. Two women were also photographed looking at the chaotic scene standing near the reception desk.
Page Six has been unable to independently confirm the identities of the individuals carrying Payne, but the Daily Mail claimed they were hotel employees.
A receptionist at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires told us Friday they are unable to comment.
The men seem to have brought Payne to his third-floor room at around 4:54 p.m. local time, as another CCTV camera captured Payne and three men outside his room at that time.
If the lobby footage was indeed captured around that time, it is not clear why the men would have taken him back to his suite instead of keeping him in the lobby until medical help arrived.
In October, the 911 call the hotel manager placed just before Payne’s death was released.
“We have a guest who is [allegedly] high and drunk; and when he is conscious, he is destroying his room and we need you to send someone, please. We need you to send someone urgently because I don’t know if his life is in danger,” the man, identified only as Estaban, told the dispatcher.
“He is in a room that has a balcony and we are scared he might be endangering his life.”
When the dispatcher asked the manager if he was interested in police being called to the scene, he only requested SAME, Argentina’s medical emergencies services.
By the time the ambulance arrived, however, Payne had fallen from his hotel balcony in a “state of semi or total unconsciousness,” which meant suicide was ruled out.
SAME head Alberto Crescenti previously told Argentina’s Todo Noticias TV channel, “We arrived in time to try and revive him, but there was nothing we could do.”
Guests had reportedly seen Payne acting “erratically” earlier in the day and even smashed his laptop in the hotel lobby, prompting workers to escort him back up to his room.
Page Six has reached out to Payne’s estate rep and attorney for comment but did not immediately hear back. Local police declined to comment and the prosecutor’s office in Argentina could not be reached.
The investigation into Payne’s death is ongoing, but at the time of publication, only three people have been charged.
An alleged drug dealer and a former hotel employee named Braian Nahuel Paiz were charged with supplying the “Story of My Life” singer with narcotics. Paiz has denied the claims against him.
The prosecutor’s office also charged Payne’s friend, believed to be Rogelio “Roger” Nores, with negligence for failing to inform the singer’s family of his relapse and not responding to hotel staff’s calls.
Nores denied abandoning Payne and said he is “heartbroken” over his death.
The “Night Changes” singer’s official cause of death was due to the multiple traumas he suffered, internal and external bleeding he sustained as a result of his fall.
Payne funeral was held in England on Wednesday. His family members, including 7-year-old son Bear and the child’s mother, Cheryl Cole, and his former One Direction bandmates were all in attendance.
Cassidy, who had been on vacation with Payne in Argentina but left early because she felt they overstayed their trip, was also present for the final goodbye.
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