Liam Payne Struggled With Comparisons to 1D Members, Collaborator Says


Liam Pine Fear with his comparison One direction The group’s colleagues, according to the late music song composition.
“To see his colleagues in the band and to have this direct comparison – it cannot avoid it all the time,” Sam Preston He said in an interview with Traded stone Posted on Tuesday, February 11. “If someone is subject to addiction behavior and problems, I think this is just a very difficult situation.”
Payne was a member of One Direction alongside Harry Stylesand Niall Houranand Zain Malik and Louis Tomlinson. Together, the group became one of The best -selling team is the boy Absolutely. After success, the band went on an unspecified stop in 2016. All five members ended Follow -up on individual jobs.
Malik, Horan and Styles found success with their first albums. Styles, 31, continued to earn Grammy gestures and prizes for his subsequent work. While Payne was also working on his individual music, he collaborated with Preston, 43, who also had the roots of the Boy band. The former ordinary boys singer claimed that Payne was pressured himself to match his former counterparts.
“It was like,” well, I must be the most male single artist, or I am a failure. But this is almost impossible. “
While Payne wanted to make the best music he could be able to do it, Preston has shared that he could say that Payne has a gift.
“You can feel that there was a real brilliance for him that he was almost afraid to allow people to see,” he recalls. “He was a talented music, and he can allow himself to be very raw.”
Matt Payne In October 2024, after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was 31 years old The cause of death It was included as “multiple shocks”, including bleeding in his chest, skull and abdomen. It was later reported that the partial anatomy was found “pink cocaine” – a mixture of methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA – along with cocaine and benzodiazepine and detection in its system at a time His death. (Payne was frank His struggles With drug use over the years.)

Niall Houran, Liam Pine, Luis Tomlinson, Zain Malik, Harry Styles of Off at BBC Teen 2011 Awards
Dave Hogan/Getty PicturesAfter the news broke out about the death of Payne, one direction Make a statement together.
“We are completely destroyed by Liam’s death news. At the right time, and when everyone can, there will be more to say.” “But at the present time, we will take some time to sadness and address the loss of our brother, who loved us dearly. The memories that we participated with him will be proud of him forever. At the present time, our thoughts with his family, friends and fans who loved him beside us. We will miss him terrifying. We love you Liam. “
Malik, Houran, Styles and Tomlinson were included Attending the funeral of Payne In Amram, England, in November 2024. This was the first time that the remaining four -year -old members have been together since Malik, 32, left one direction in 2015.
A source said US weekly In December 2024, Payne’s death was a “vigilance” for the fourth to enhance their friendship.
“Before, they remained in intermittent communication but they had no close friendships at all,” the insiders explained. “They are all sad, but they check each other and feel closer than they have for years. They have brought them back together.”
Last month, Tomlinson, 33, Support Malik At his party in Los Angeles. “Tonight is a special thing. Malik said to the crowd, as it appears in a video clip of the joint fans via X.” I don’t want to give his location away, but Louis is here tonight. “
The video showed Tomlinson sitting in a box in the place, extinguishing his heart.
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