A groom who was in Buenos Aires for his marriage ceremony and witnessed One Path star Liam Payne’s deadly fall mentioned he’s haunted by the sound of the singer’s physique hitting the bottom.
Bret Watson was in his first-floor room on the CasaSur Palermo lodge along with his marriage ceremony planner once they witnessed the 31-year-old’s physique in a free fall, Watson instructed TMZ.
The “Strip That Down” singer died after he plummeted from his third-story balcony on Oct. 16.
“We immediately rushed out onto the balcony to see what it was, and when we looked down we could see that it was Liam lying on the ground. He landed face up, so we could tell right away that it was Liam and he was motionless,” a visibly shaken Watson mentioned.
He added that the worst a part of all of it wasn’t watching Payne fall, however listening to his physique hit the arduous floor under.
“Just seeing anyone fall like that is heartbreaking but seeing it happen and hearing the impact on the ground was more haunting than seeing him fall,” Watson mentioned.
“Then seeing the immediate aftermath, it’s something that is burned into my brain. It’s something I’m never going to forget. I’m still working through trying to process and understand everything.”
The groom mentioned he and his marriage ceremony company had additionally observed Payne changing into more and more intoxicated and unstable all through the day.
However Watson’s account of Payne’s last evening, which included seeing the singer being carried by the legs and arms by lodge workers from the foyer to his room, is drastically totally different from that of Payne’s buddy, Roger Nores.
Nores, who prosecutors need to cost with abandonment, insisted Payne was solely a little bit tipsy when he left him alone an hour earlier than the autumn.
The clip, shared by TMZ, is a part of a particular “TMZ Investigates: Liam Payne: Who’s to Blame?” airing Monday night on Fox.
