Liam Payne’s Dad’s Desperate To Get Him Help Before Tragedy

Liam Payne’s father, Geoff, reportedly made a determined try and have his son dedicated to a psychiatric remedy middle within the months main as much as his tragic passing on the age of 31.

Geoff took motion after the previous One Path star was hospitalized in a “critical situation” in April 2024, doing every part he might to safeguard Liam Payne.

In accordance with Rolling Stone, sources declare that Liam began the yr in a “fragile state” and checked right into a rehab facility in Spain across the identical time he launched what would turn into his closing single, “Teardrops.”

Nonetheless, he allegedly left remedy earlier than finishing this system. Within the weeks that adopted, he relapsed, prompting his father to intervene. Regardless of Geoff’s makes an attempt to have Liam admitted to a psychiatric remedy middle, the singer reportedly refused to go.

Considerations over Liam’s well-being prolonged past his household. In accordance with the report, his crew expressed critical doubts about his means to deal with a deliberate tour in South America, believing he was “in no form to be on the street.” Liam additionally missed a number of key promotional alternatives for “Teardrops,” together with scheduled interviews, performances, and occasions.

By September 2024, only one month earlier than his passing, Liam was dropped by his U.S. label, Common Republic. A supply instructed Rolling Stone, “It was determined by the label, given these components mixed with considerations for his well being, to terminate the working relationship quite than additional launch music.”

Regardless of these setbacks, these near Liam reportedly believed he was in a greater place round that point. He had been residing at a polo membership in Wellington, Florida, the place he spent his days songwriting, drawing, horseback using, and enjoying polo.

“Liam was enjoying polo and seemed good,” Geoff recalled in a witness assertion supplied to Argentine prosecutors.

In a stunning flip of occasions, Geoff now faces a $10 million defamation lawsuit filed by his late son’s pal, Rogelio “Roger” Nores, who claims he has been made a scapegoat for Liam’s dying.

Nores was among the many final individuals to see Liam alive on October 16, 2024, in Buenos Aires, the place the singer tragically fell from a third-floor resort balcony on the CasaSur Palmero resort. Final month, Nores was charged with manslaughter for allegedly having “deserted him [Liam] to his luck realizing that he was incapable of fending for himself and realizing that he [Liam] suffered from a number of addictions.”

Choose Laura Bruniard dominated that Nores “failed to meet his duties of care, help, and assist” towards Liam. Along with Nores, 4 others—together with the resort supervisor, a resort employee, a receptionist, and a waiter—have additionally been charged in connection to the singer’s dying.

Now, Nores is combating again, alleging that Geoff’s statements to Argentine authorities prompted “irreparable injury” to his repute. The lawsuit, filed in Palm Seashore, Florida, accuses Geoff of creating “deceptive, false, and defamatory” claims in sworn statements to Buenos Aires police, which Nores says led on to his arrest.

Geoff allegedly instructed police that Nores and Liam’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, acted because the singer’s nurses and had been liable for his care. Nores insists he was merely a pal and by no means agreed to be Liam’s caretaker.

Geoff claimed that Nores took Liam to a brand new psychiatrist in Florida after his earlier physician, Dr. Rhaidy, resigned. In accordance with Geoff, Nores allegedly misled the brand new physician about Liam’s struggles with alcohol and medicines to acquire psychiatric remedy. Nores, nonetheless, denies this, stating that no such physician existed and that Geoff’s assertion is “100% fiction.”

Geoff reportedly acknowledged that Liam couldn’t be left alone, didn’t have his personal telephone, and will solely be contacted by means of Kate or Nores. Nores refutes this, saying Liam was incessantly alone and at all times had entry to his telephone, aside from just a few days after it was damaged throughout an argument with Kate.

Nores’ authorized crew is now demanding that Geoff retract and proper his statements to Argentine authorities, arguing that his “false” declarations straight resulted within the manslaughter cost towards him.

In accordance with the lawsuit, “Defendant Geoff’s false Related Contents of the Two Sworn Declarations had been and are the proximate explanation for the Plaintiff’s harm and damages together with injury to Plaintiff’s repute.” The writ additional claims that Geoff “knew or ought to have recognized” that his statements would trigger hurt to Nores’ repute, not solely in Palm Seashore however “globally in all respects.”

In a shocking twist, Nores has acknowledged that each one “web monetary proceeds” from the lawsuit can be donated to Liam’s son, Bear.

Because the authorized battle unfolds, questions proceed to swirl round Liam’s closing months, his struggles with dependancy, and the circumstances main as much as his tragic passing.