Reality TV personality Kelly Osbourne has opened up about the tragic passing of Liam Payne, suggesting he was “crying out for help” before his untimely death last month.
The former One Direction singer, who was just 31, left fans devastated after falling from the third floor of his hotel suite in Argentina. Kelly, aged 40, reminisced about her last conversation with Liam, noting that he seemed to be in a “really good place” and was concerned for her well-being, often “checking in” on her.
However, on TikTok, she expressed how she now saw Liam’s hidden mental health struggles: “To be alone in that mental state… and he was crying out for help and nobody helped him. I think that that is just beyond heartbreaking because he made all those people millions of dollars.”
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She continued to share her heartache: “Last time we’d spoke, he was in a really good place and I wasn’t so he was checking on me to make sure that I was ok and saying that if I ever needed anything then he was there… and the fact that there was nobody there for him just breaks my heart.”
In the wake of Liam’s death, a petition has garnered over 100,000 signatures, calling on the government to better safeguard the mental health of young artists. Commenting on the proposed Liam’s Law, which would mandate “regular mental health check-ups any ongoing support during an artist’s career,” Kelly criticized record companies for not adequately protecting their talent.
She also discussed the “doctors who want to be around celebrities” following reports that Liam had multiple drugs in his system at the time of his death. Preliminary toxicology reports indicated that the former One Direction member had been using several substances in Buenos Aires, including pink cocaine (a mix of various drugs), cocaine, benzodiazepine, and crack.
Although the specific type of benzodiazepine was not mentioned in the toxicology report, it’s known that police discovered a blister pack of clonazepam in the singer’s hotel room. Kelly claimed that these doctors ‘give celebrities what they want’, stating: “There are a number of doctors who want to around celebrities so they give them what they want. There’s a few doctors and you see them in movies or fly on the wall docuseries and I’m like: ‘I know that doctor.’”
After a painful wait for Liam’s family, who have been waiting to bring his body home while toxicology tests were conducted in Argentina, it has been reported that the star can be returned to the UK by “Monday at the latest”, with a funeral expected to occur the same week.
