Liam Payne‘s ex-fiancée Maya Henry has become the target of online trolls who are unfairly saying she it to blame for the death of the One Direction singer.
Just days ago the Texan model, 23, instructed lawyers to issue a cease and desist letter to the pop star after accusing him of repeatedly contacting her.
Maya, who is said to be ‘in shock’ over Liam’s death, has been defended by fans who have rushed to share messages of support in the comments section of her post.
Her supporters have jumped to her defence over vile comments which have been posted online about her involvement in Liam’s death.
Underneath her most recent Instagram picture, trolls posted sickening comments asking Maya if ‘she was happy’ and telling her the death was ‘her fault’.
Liam Payne ‘s ex-fiancée Maya Henry has become the target of online trolls who are unfairly saying she it to blame for the death of the One Direction singer
Just days ago the Texan model, 23, instructed lawyers to issue a cease and desist letter to the pop star after accusing him of repeatedly contacting her
After noticing the comments on her page, many shared their own more positive remarks, reminding Maya that the tragic events were not her fault.
They read: ‘For everyone in the comments attacking Maya, Liam’s death isn’t her fault. She’s allowed to share the truth about their relationship and how he treated her. Victims are allowed to tell their stories.
‘There is no way that anyone could’ve seen Liam’s death coming. So y’all need to stop attacking her and leave her alone. It’s not her fault.’
Others read: ‘Girl please take a break from social media if you need or mute the comments. You’ve done nothing wrong. Take your time to heal’; ‘Just want you to know you are so loved and cared for we all stand with you Maya’; Turn your comments off’; ‘It’s not your fault’;
‘Leave this woman alone. Y’all don’t know what happened. Go pot condolences on his page, but why attack her? Grow up! Be respectful’; It’s not your fault, please don’t blame yourself’;
‘People blaming her for Liam’s death is so stupid. Victims are allowed to tell their stories, she couldn’t have foreseen this death happening. You all need to grow up’;
Maya, who is said to be ‘in shock’ over Liam’s death, has been defended by fans who have rushed to share messages of support in the comments section of her post
Just days before his death Maya accused the singer of obsessively contacting her friends and family including her mother Azteca Henry (pictured in 2021)
Just days before his death Maya accused the singer of obsessively contacting her friends and family including her mother Azteca Henry.
Lawyers for the star told MailOnline: ‘Maya Henry issued a cease and desist last week to Payne following the emergence of new and concerning information.
‘She has retained attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna to represent her. At this time, that is her only comment on the matter.’
Sharing a brutal assessment of Liam with TikTok followers last week, Maya – the daughter of multi-millionaire personal-injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry – claimed he has gone to extraordinary lengths in an attempt to contact her.
‘Ever since we broke up he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone, it’s always from different phone numbers too, so I never know where it’s gonna come from,’ she said.
‘He’ll create new iCloud accounts to message me – it’s always a new damn iCloud account. Every time I see one pop up on my phone I’m like, ‘here we f***ing go again.’
‘Also, he will email me… not only me, but he’ll blow up my mom’s phone. Is this normal behavior to you?’
Last week the model also accused Liam of playing on the loyalty of die-hard One Direction fans across social media to pillory her.
Liajm shot to fame in 2010 on XFactor with former bandmates Niall Horan , Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, despite initially auditioning separately
Liam made his first public appearance with Maya in 2019 before their stop-start three-year relationship came to an end in 2022, almost a year after the former couple called off their engagement
Liam made his first public appearance with Maya in 2019 before their stop-start three-year relationship came to an end in 2022, almost a year after the former couple called off their engagement.
The Strip That Down For Me singer has since moved on with new girlfriend Kate Cassidy, while Maya continues to promote her debut novel, Looking Forward – an art-imitating-life romance about a girl who falls in love with a pop star.
She recently opened up about the ‘fictional elements’ to her book, which she claimed is a fiction novel based on true events from her own life.
Henry has been promoting her debut novel, Looking Forward – an art-imitating-life romance about a girl who falls in love with a pop star
On a new podcast, The Internet is Dead, Maya addressed how much of the book is fiction and claimed that fans didn’t think it was about her ex-boyfriend.
Noting some of the things she changed, Maya said: ‘Some of the things that are fictionalized in the book are obviously the name changes, some of the cities are different like I say I’m from Tennessee in the book when I’m from Texas.’
Maya then went on to discuss why fans didn’t think the book was about Payne, who is father to his son Bear, six, from his relationship with ex Cheryl Cole.
She said: ‘Then also for example another big point was that people were like this can’t be about Liam because when I was talking about the abortion he said ‘oh I’m not ready for a kid’, because he is already a father.’
Explaining why she slightly changed the events, Maya said: ‘And in real life that’s obviously not the case, but for privacy reasons I just wanted to leave stuff like that out of the book and just tell my story so that’s kind of why it is fiction.
‘Because if you do something that’s nonfiction everything has to be fiction everything has to be so factual and you can’t leave anything out.’
Revealing that some of the worst parts of her story were omitted from the story, she said: ‘There are a lot of things that are worse than that I did leave out. So it’s fiction inspired by true events.’
Liam had been staying in Argentina over the last few weeks and was pictured engaging with fans
His girlfriend Kate Cassidy posted a picture of the pair on her Instagram last August
Liam was found dead by police on Wednesday evening who say they found the popstar’s medicines including clonazepam – a drug which is used to control epilepsy, involuntary muscle spasms and panic disorders.
The photos were published across the Argentinian media, including major broadsheets today and purport to show Liam’s suite at the Casa Sur hotel in Palermo.
There was a frantic call to 911 from hotel staff about ‘an aggressive man who could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol’ who was ‘smashing up his room’ minutes before he died.
In a tape of the 911 call from the hotel manager to police, he could be heard saying: ‘I’m calling from the Casa Sur hotel in Palermo, we have a guest who is over the top with drugs and is breaking up the entire room.
‘We need someone to come.’
The call then cuts off and on a second call, the manager adds ‘when he is conscious he is breaking up the room.
‘We need you to send someone, please’
A heartbreaking video shows Liam Payne singing and dancing at his former bandmate Niall Horan’s, where he later posted a picture with Niall to Snapchat captioned: ‘Reunited.’
The emergency operator then asks the manager: ‘Under the influence of alcohol and narcotics?’
The manager’s response made his fears all too plain: ‘We need someone to be sent to us urgently, because I don’t know if the guest’s life is at risk.
‘The room has a balcony and we are afraid that they might do something’
Seconds later, it appeared it was too late to prevent the tragedy as the manager said with emotion in his voice: ‘Send only SAME, only SAME. [the city’s emergency paramedic service].
Liam had arrived in South America with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy on September 30, staying in Argentina for two weeks after only planning to spend ‘five days’ there.
During their extended trip, Liam was reunited with Niall Horan after going to watch his former bandmate perform at the Movistar Arena, Buenos Aires, on October 2.
On October 12, Kate, 25, returned home to Florida after saying ‘I just need to go home’ in a TikTok video, with Liam staying behind and checking into the £230-a-night Casa Sur hotel alone.
