Liam Payne admitted 'I became someone I didn't recognise' in emotional video

Liam Payne candidly told his fans he had become 'someone I didn't recognise' as he opened up to them about his personal demons just a year before his tragic death

Liam Payne confessed to becoming "someone I didn't recognise" in an emotional video shared a year before he died.

The One Direction star tragically passed away on Wednesday after falling from a third floor balcony at the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires. An investigation into the circumstances surrounding Liam's death is ongoing. His loss has seen a public outpouring of grief from fans and his fellow celebrities, as well as his One Direction bandmates, music mogul and X Factor creator Simon Cowell, ex-girlfriend Cheryl Tweedy and friends and family of the singer who was just 31 years old.

Liam had previously sat down for a chat with Logan Paul where he said he felt "misunderstood" and took aim at some of his former bandmates, especially Zayn Malik, prompting a series of "death threats." Then in the July 2023 video Liam shared he expressed how he "feels differently now."

Sat on the sofa at his home, he candidly told the camera: "I just took a little bit of time out, sorry for the MIA.There's a few reasons I did that. I just needed to take a bit of time out for myself because I became someone I didn't recognise any more. And I'm sure you didn't either."

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Liam then referred to his chat with Logan as he admitted it was "nice to meet" the YouTube star. He continued: "I'm not going to let anyone else take the blame for what I said. There was a lot of hate online for them which I thought was unfair because they didn't do anything wrong, they were doing their job."

Liam explained himself further as he divulged he had been getting death threats: "I think for me a lot of what I said was coming from the wrong place. I just took it out on everybody else. I was getting a lot of hate online. There was death threats, all sorts of stuff."

Liam said he then went to Louisiana to "get my head straight." His chat on Logan's Impaulsive podcast in 2022 revealed a lot of hidden feeling Liam had stored when it came to his relationship with former bandmate Zayn.

He said on the podcast that there were "many reasons" he disliked Zayn but "many reasons why [he'd] always be on his side." Liam also compared their lives growing up as he called his parents "overly supportive" to the point it was "annoying at times" and compared it to Zayn, who he claimed had a "different upbringing in that sense".

He said: "You can always look at the man for where he is and say 'oh yeah whatever that guy's a d****', but at the end of the day once you understand what he's been through to get to that point."

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