Paiz admitted to spending two separate nights with the Strip That Down singer and, in an interview with Argentine TV shortly after Payne’s death, revealed of their second rendezvous - on October 13, three days before Payne’s death - ‘We spent the night together, we consumed drugs because the truth is that something intimate happened.’.
This sheds a possible new light on Liam’s relationship with the Argentine waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz, a man he met just weeks before his death and who is now being held on remand accused of supplying the singer with drugs - a charge he denies.
Rolling Stone’s cover story contains a number of other revelations about Payne’s challenging final years, including the claim that he ‘struggled with his sexuality’, with one source alleging that ‘during his relationship with Maya, he sexted men.’ Shockingly, she discovered this when, according to the source, Payne ’accidentally broadcast… them to their TV’.
For while reporting on the incident from Buenos Aires last year, a close friend of Liam’s then girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, told me that Kate had been experiencing problems with Liam’s drug taking.
The revelations shed new light on Liam’s relationship with the Argentine waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz, a man he met just weeks before his death.
