The last wish that Liam Payne confessed to an Argentine fan an hour before he died: 'He didn't look drunk or aggressive'

The world is still in mourning after the shocking death of the One Direction star Liam Payne, after the 31-year-old fell from a balcony in Argentina, with an eyewitness to his last day revealing crucial information about how he was behaving.

Payne's death has left his ex-band members in grief and searching for answers as to how the singer died, with serious drugs found in his system in what appeared to be a relapse into substance abuse.

It's thought that the intoxication caused the Brit to plunge from the third balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires, yet an eyewitness fan to the star's last day revealed he seemed sober and excited at the prospect of moving to the South American capital permanently, hours before he died.

"Liam looked in good shape, not drunk or aggressive like they've been saying on social media," Diana Gauna told TN Central. "He approached us and spent quite a bit of time talking to us and telling us about his experiences in Buenos Aires, the places he'd been to and where he wanted to go.

"He said he loved the city and would like to buy a home here, that he loved the countryside around Buenos Aires. Liam also told us during the conversation that he'd been to the countryside with his girlfriend.

"[And] that on Sunday morning about 7am they'd gone out running together. He told us he was really enjoying Buenos Aires."

Guana's shock at his death

That was at 15:00 local time on Wednesday, October 16 and approximately two hours before his corpse was discovered. That's when the news broke around the world that the Best Song Ever writer and vocalist had lost his life.

For the Directioner fan, she admitted she was confused at the amount of emergency service vehicles beginning to appear at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel before being stunned that he had died, after seeming so upbeat earlier.

"I never thought it was Liam because I had seen him just over an hour earlier and he seemed okay," Gauna continued. "Finding out someone is dead that you've just seen was really shocking.

"He was my idol. Liam spoke a lot about mental health and in his songs told us we are never alone. This is all very hard. As fans we are in a lot of pain."