Liam Payne‘s girlfriend Kate Cassidy had left the singer in Argentina to return to the US just two days before his death.
The singer, 31, died on Wednesday after falling from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires.
On Monday, Kate, 37, had shared a video on TikTok revealing that she was flying back to her home in Florida after spending two weeks with Liam in Argentina.
She added that she had originally planned to stay in Argentina for ‘five days,’ and she was ‘so ready to leave.’
‘I was just like, I need to go home,’ she said in the video, which documented her flight back to the US.
Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy had left the singer in Argentina to return to the US just two days before his death
The singer died on Wednesday after falling from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires (pictured in a Snapchat post shared hours before his death)
Kate and Liam originally flew to Buenos Aires to watch his former bandmate Niall Horan‘s concert on October 4, and he remained in the country after his girlfriend flew home.Â
Liam’s final Snapchat post showed him happily posing with his bikini-clad partner Kate Cassidy as they looked into a mirror – with the throwback photo previously shared by Kate to mark his 30th birthday last year.
Further posts from the final moments of the star’s life showed him enjoying a late breakfast in his hotel room, where he revealed the pair had been ‘waking up at 1pm every day’ and deciding on Forrest Gump as a Halloween costume.
He filmed himself at the breakfast table with Kate where he joked about his partner leaving her hat on the table.Â
A further tragic selfie was captioned: ‘Lovely day in Argentina’ before the star shared a photo of his hotel, writing: ‘Happy I got some time away’ followed by a heart emoji.
He shared a further photo with Kate captioned: ‘Quality time.’Â
TMZ reports that despite Liam and Kate jetting away together to South America, she returned home on October 14 with the singer reportedly checking into Casa Sur alone.Â
Emergency services are believed to be present outside the hotel, where a red tent has been erected at the scene. Investigations into the singer’s death are ongoing.Â
On Monday, Kate had shared a video on TikTok revealing that she was flying back to her home in Florida after spending two weeks with Liam in Argentina
Liam’s final Snapchat post showed him happily posing with his bikini-clad partner Kate Cassidy – with the throwback photo previously shared by Kate to mark his 30th birthday last year
City ambulance service provider spokesman Alberto Crescenti said he had fallen around 40 metres and suffered ‘severe injuries which were incompatible with life.’Â
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.’
Kate and Liam first started dating in October 2022, and made their red carpet debut at the Fashion Awards later that year.
However, in May 2023, the couple sparked split rumours, with a source telling US Weekly: ‘Liam and Kate have broken up.’
The pair then put an end to split rumours by enjoying a date in London in June 2023, and later that year she supported him when he was rushed to hospital with a ‘serious kidney infection’.
Liam began his pursuit to stardom when he initially auditioned for X Factor in 2008.
At only 14-years-old Liam impressed judges with his own version of Fly Me To The Moon by Frank Sinatra – but was later eliminated from the show.
However Payne gave his singing career another go auditioning for the competition again in 2010, where he quickly shot to fame as part of One Direction.
He and his former bandmates Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, were brought together by Simon Cowell and former judge Nicole Scherzinger who saw their potential as a group.
After just a few weeks of getting to know each other and non-stop rehearsing, the group impressed Simon at their Judge’s Houses audition and sailed through to the live shows.
The pop Svengali later admitted to Rolling Stone that it took him ‘about a millionth of a second’ to spot the group’s worldwide potential.
The fan reaction was instant too, with 1D hysteria soon dwarfing the show. Despite the adoration, the band ultimately finished in third place on the X Factor but shortly afterwards Cowell sealed their fate by signing the fivesome to a reported £2million Syco contract.
Keen to capitalise on the boys’ already devoted fanbase, Cowell moved quickly with recording for the band’s debut album beginning in January 2011.
Kate and Liam originally flew to Buenos Aires to watch his former bandmate Niall Horan ‘s concert on October 4, and he remained in the country after his girlfriend flew homeÂ
Several witnesses said Liam fell from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel shortly after 5pm (ART) Wednesday evening
By September of that year One Direction’s first single was released with What Makes You Beautiful soaring to number one on the UK Singles Chart, after becoming the most pre-ordered Sony Music Entertainment single in history.
Their debut album, Up All Night was also a best seller, becoming the UK’s fastest-selling debut album of 2011, with the record leading to their first tour which kicked off in the UK that December.
After Malik announced his departure from the band in 2015, the band members went their separate ways.
During their time as a group, One Direction won five Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, amassed over three billion YouTube views and sold 50 million records worldwide.
After releasing five albums with one of the biggest boybands of all time, Liam released his first solo album titled LP1 in 2019.
His singles Strip That Down co-written with Ed Sheeran climbed its way to number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that same year.
