Liam Payne’s ex-fiancée Maya Henry has broken her silence following the singer’s sudden death.
The One Direction star, 31, reportedly fell from a third floor of a hotel in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires, according to TMZ.
Now a source close to Henry has told DailyMail.com: ‘Right now she is obviously in shock.’
Emergency services are believed to be present outside the hotel, where a red tent has been erected at the scene.
Several witnesses told the publication that Payne had fallen from his room at the CasaSur Palmero Hotel shortly after 5pm on Wednesday.
Reps for Liam Payne’s ex- fiancée Maya Henry told told DailyMail.com: ‘Well we just found out from a reporter contacting us. Right now she is obviously in shock. But I will let you know if we choose to comment’
The One Direction star, 31, reportedly fell to his death from a third floor of a hotel in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires, on Wednesday
Investigations into the 31-year-old’s death are ongoing.
City ambulance service provider spokesman Alberto Crescenti said he had fallen around 40 meters and suffered ‘severe injuries which were incompatible with life.’
He said: ‘The alarm was raised at 5.04pm local time saying a person was lying in an internal patio at Casa Sur.
‘At 5.11pm an ambulance arrived and the man was certified dead.
‘Afterwards we found out he had been a famous singer. Unfortunately the injuries he had suffered as a result of the fall proved to be fatal. There was no possibility of resuscitating him.’
Just days ago the Texan model, 23, instructed lawyers to issue a cease and desist letter to the pop star after accusing him of repeatedly contacting her
She has also accused the Payne of contacting her friends and playing on the loyalty of die-hard One Direction fans across social media
Just days ago the Texan model, 23, instructed lawyers to issue a cease and desist letter to the pop star after accusing him of repeatedly contacting her.
The brunette beauty also accused the singer of obsessively contacting her friends and family including her mother Azteca Henry.
Lawyers for the star told MailOnline: ‘Maya Henry issued a cease and desist last week to Liam Payne following the emergence of new and concerning information.
‘She has retained attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna to represent her. At this time, that is her only comment on the matter.’
Sharing a brutal assessment of Liam, with TikTok followers last week, Henry – the daughter of multi-millionaire personal-injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry – claimed he has gone to extraordinary lengths in an attempt to contact her.
‘Ever since we broke up he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone, it’s always from different phone numbers too, so I never know where it’s gonna come from,’ she said.
The 31-year-old shot to fame in 2010 on XFactor with former bandmates Niall Horan , Zayn Malik , Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson , despite initially auditioning separately.
‘He’ll create new iCloud accounts to message me – it’s always a new damn iCloud account. Every time I see one pop up on my phone I’m like, “here we f***ing go again”
‘Also, he will email me… not only me, but he’ll blow up my mom’s phone. Is this normal behaviour to you?’
Last week the model also accused Payne of playing on the loyalty of die-hard One Direction fans across social media to pillory her.
Payne made his first public appearance with Henry in 2019 before their stop-start three-year relationship with Henry came to an end in 2022, almost a year after the former couple called off their engagement.
The Strip That Down For Me singer has since moved on with new girlfriend Kate Cassidy, while Maya continues to promote her debut novel, Looking Forward – an art-imitating-life romance about a girl who falls in love with a pop star.
She recently opened up about the ‘fictional elements’ to her book, which she claimed is a fiction novel based on true events from her own life.
On a new podcast, The Internet is Dead, Maya addressed how much of the book is fiction and claimed that fans didn’t think it was about her ex-boyfriend.
Payne made his first public appearance with Henry in 2019 before their stop-start three-year relationship with Henry came to an end in 2022, almost a year after the former couple called off their engagement
Noting some of the things she changed, Maya said: ‘Some of the things that are fictionalized in the book are obviously the name changes, some of the cities are different like I say I’m from Tennessee in the book when I’m from Texas.’
Maya then went on to discuss why fans didn’t think the book was about Liam, who is father to his son Bear, six, from his relationship with ex Cheryl Cole.
She said: ‘Then also for example another big point was that people were like this can’t be about Liam because when I was talking about the abortion he said “oh I’m not ready for a kid”, because he is already a father.’
Explaining why she slightly changed the events, Maya said: ‘And in real life that’s obviously not the case, but for privacy reasons I just wanted to leave stuff like that out of the book and just tell my story so that’s kind of why it is fiction.
‘Because if you do something that’s nonfiction everything has to be fiction everything has to be so factual and you can’t leave anything out.’
