Several Liam Payne fans exclusively spoke to Us Weekly about their experiences meeting the late singer weeks before his sudden death at 31
Several fans of Liam Payne’s career met him in Buenos Aires in the weeks preceding his tragic and sudden death at age 31.
“I met him on September 30th at the hotel’s door. I mean, I was passing by,” Noelia Verón, who has been a fan of Payne’s career since she was a teenager, exclusively recalled to Us Weekly on Friday, October 18. “I waited there for a while to take a picture of him because I couldn’t believe it. He came closer to the fans, he took pictures.”
Verón, 29, added, “We shared a moment. In my case I [jokingly] told him that I had escaped from the [school building]; I had abandoned the class and he made a joke about it, like, ‘I couldn’t believe it’ [and asked] what kind of class I was doing, what I was studying.”
According to Verón, her experience with the One Direction alum was “pretty cool.”
“He looked good,” she said. “The relationship with the fans was unique. He took the time to greet each one of them, to take a picture, to be there, to share. He lived it all with a lot of emotion, everything that happened on that September 30th.”
Payne and girlfriend Kate Cassidy visited Argentina throughout September and October, during which they even caught his former bandmate Niall Horan’s solo concert.
