Liam Payne’s ex-fiance is speaking out after his death and their romance
October 17, 2024, published at 12:53 PM ET
Liam Payne’s ex-fiancée Maya Henry has reacted to the devastating news of his death, just hours after the One Direction star’s body was found on the balcony of a Buenos Aires hotel.
RadarOnline.com can reveal his former flame is still coming to terms with the news, which came after the 23-year-old model recently detailed their “toxic” romance and started legal proceedings against him – just a week before his death.
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A source close to Henry said: “She is clearly in shock at the moment.”
Payne and Henry were in an on-and-off relationship for about three years from 2019 to 2022.
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The former couple got engaged in 2020 and Payne announced their first breakup in June 2021 – for which he took the blame at the time.
In October, the two revealed they were back together before calling it quits for good in 2022.
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Earlier this year, Henry blamed the majority of their problems on their eight-year age difference.
She told People: “I’ve definitely chosen to forgive a lot of things. When you love someone so much, you have those rose-colored glasses. You’re in denial, so you think those things will stop, and they don’t.” and that just becomes a problem on top of other issues.”
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While their relationship ended two years ago, Henry took legal action against the singer just a week before his death.
The model issued a cease and desist order to the former One Direction member after he claimed he repeatedly contacted her.
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Lawyers told MailOnline: “Maya Henry issued a cease and desist order to Liam Payne last week following the emergence of new and worrying information.
“She has retained attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna to represent her. At this time, that is her only comment on the matter.”
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Henry — the daughter of multimillionaire personal injury attorney Thomas J. Henry — uploaded a TikTok video last week claiming Payne had gone to great lengths to contact her.
She claimed in the video: “Since we broke up he’s been messaging me, blowing up my phone, not just from his phone, it’s always from different phone numbers too so I never know where it’s going to come from.”
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“He’ll email me too… not just me, but he’ll blow up my mom’s phone too. Is this normal behavior for you?’
Henry also claimed Payne “preyed on his One Direction fanbase” and that fans were “blinded by their loyalty to him”.
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She continued, “If you continually enable someone, they will never realize that what they have done is bad, or they will realize it, and they know they can get away with it, which is what happened to them for so many years. .”
‘Everything is swept under the carpet, everything is hidden from him. I don’t know who is behind this, but nothing about him ever comes out.’
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The model also opens up in her new fictional book Looking Forward, which is connected to Payne and based on true events from her life.
Henry said she had to use fictitious names and change certain details for privacy reasons, but noted that some of the “worst stuff” was left out of the final publication.
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She said on The Internet is Dead podcast: “There are a lot of things worse than the ones I left out. So it’s fiction inspired by true events.”
Payne was found dead on the third-floor balcony of the CasaSur hotel in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. He was pronounced dead at the scene with a skull fracture.
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The singer was said to have behaved “erratically” in the lobby before his death and had to be carried to his room.
A revealed 911 call to local police shortly before his death revealed that the hotel owner became concerned that Payne’s life was “in danger” after noticing that he was “breaking things in his room” under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
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Chilling photos from the singer’s room showed a broken television, a glass of champagne, burnt aluminum foil, charred matches and white powder.
The former boy band member’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, left town just two days before his death.
Payne shares his 7-year-old son Bear with his ex Cheryl Cole.
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