Liam Payne\u2019s behavior began to spiral after his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, left their vacation, a source close to Cassidy revealed to PEOPLE. The One Direction star, 31, died after falling from a third-floor balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires on Oct. 16. \u201cYou could see from the Snapchat videos, he was a different person around her,\u201d the insider shared, noting that Cassidy had been by Payne\u2019s side throughout his recent legal troubles with ex-fianc\u00e9e Maya Henry.<\/p>\n
Cassidy, 25, stood by Payne amid his struggles, according to the source: \u201cShe had been super supportive of him through all the legal drama and very much stood by him.\u201d Payne and Cassidy were first seen together in October 2022, keeping their relationship mostly private but occasionally sharing moments on social media.<\/p>\n
Payne\u2019s death occurred after hotel staff reported his erratic behavior, including \u201ctrashing\u201d his room, to emergency services just minutes before he fell from the balcony. Police later found Payne\u2019s room \u201cin total disorder,\u201d and a partial autopsy revealed multiple substances, including \u201cpink cocaine,\u201d in his system at the time of his death.<\/p>\n
The Teardrops singer\u2019s body will remain in Argentina until the autopsy is completed, officials told PEOPLE. A preliminary autopsy indicated Payne died from multiple injuries and hemorrhages, with coroners confirming his fatal head injuries were consistent with a fall from a height .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cassidy, 25, stood by Payne amid his struggles, according to the source: \u201cShe had been super supportive of him through all the legal drama and very much stood by him.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":366,"featured_media":57492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[20915,20917,21020,19834,21387,20920,19835,19836],"class_list":["post-57491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-buenos-aires","tag-kate-cassidy","tag-liam","tag-liam-payne","tag-liam-payne-autopsy","tag-liam-payne-death","tag-maya-henry","tag-one-direction"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}