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Camila Cabello joins a host of celebrities who are paying tribute to Liam Payne, who died at the age of 31 on October 16th. The One Direction member‘s passing comes as a shock to fans across the globe as reports reveal he died due to a fatal fall from his hotel balcony in Argentina. The unfortunate news has compelled his fans and peers to express their sorrow and share their warm memories of him online.
Fifth Harmony alum Camila posted heartfelt messages as she remembered Payne and the distinct sense of happiness he brought to her and her young friends. A lot of people empathized with her and shared similar feelings. She took to Instagram Stories to express gratitude and grief.
The Havana singer wrote, “Thank you Liam for all the joy you brought my friends and I. It really made an impression on me as a young girl to meet a member of a group i loved and have him be so kind.”
She added, “It’s a tragedy to have him gone way too soon…”
Cabello rose to fame in the music industry in a similar way as Liam when she was put into the girl group Fifth Harmony on the U.S. version of The X Factor, the show that produced One Direction, making it a global phenomenon in the 2010s.
After the unfortunate incident, several high-profile music artists turned to different platforms to share the news with their fans. These tributes to Liam and the anecdotes of his various contributions only increased in intensity, reminding fans around the world exactly what he had brought into the world anytime he took to the stage with his fellow 1D band members.
Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, and Niall Horan published a collective statement on their band’s Instagram feed mourning the loss of their band member. They even went on to reminisce about their fond memories with Liam individually and expressed their heartbreak at the loss they felt over the incident.
Other famous personalities also paid their respects, including Taylor Swift, Halsey, Backstreet Boys, Quavo, and Rita Ora. Friends and family members within One Direction’s close circle, which included Anne Twist, Harry Styles’ mother, Niall’s sibling Greg, and their guitarist Dan Richards, also expressed their grief.
Liam Payne was officially declared dead after he allegedly fell from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, where he was reported to have been staying. Payne had different degrees of internal and external bleeding as well as bruising due to blunt force trauma. The autopsy report showed that the deceased had 25 separate sites of injury, which were all attributable to the fall from a great height, head trauma, and abdominal blood loss that caused his demise.
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