Sharon Osbourne, a former « X Factor » judge, took to Instagram on Thursday to mourn the loss of Liam Payne and place blame on her fellow music moguls.
Sharon Osbourne blamed the music industry for Liam Payne’s tragic death.
The former “X Factor” judge, 72, took to Instagram on Thursday to mourn Payne’s loss and call out her fellow music moguls for turning their back on the struggling singer.
“Liam, my heart aches. We all let you down,” Osbourne wrote in a heart-wrenching statement Thursday.
“Where was this industry when you needed them?” she asked.
Osbourne noted that Payne was so young when he joined One Direction in 2010 and quickly sky-rocketed to fame.
“You were just a kid when you entered one of the toughest industries in the world,” she said, asking, “Who was in your corner?”
The TV personality concluded her post by writing, “Rest in peace my friend ????️ @liampayne.”
Osbourne was a judge in the singing competition show from 2004 to 2007 and made her return in 2013 and again from 2016 to 2017.
However; she was not a judge during the year that Payne first auditioned in the series in 2008 or when he and his former bandmates — Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik— formed One Direction and competed in 2010.
