Drugs are the one factor accountable within the dying of former One Direction star Liam Payne, in line with an in depth good friend who was cleared final month of expenses he was concerned with the singer’s dying.
Rogelio “Roger” Nores, chatting with Reuters on Friday alongside his lawyer, described Payne’s October fall from a Buenos Aires resort balcony as “bad luck” and a “tragedy.”
Nores and two workers on the resort the place Payne died had been cleared by a court docket in February of any wrongdoing.
Two different individuals stay detained awaiting trial over accusations they plied the 31-year-old Payne with cocaine throughout his keep in Buenos Aires.
“As a friend, you see them having a drugs problem and you do what you can but at the end of the day it’s their decision,” stated Nores. “You start seeing a chain of events and it was just bad luck, it happened in a way that ended in tragedy.”
Payne was identified for his stint in one of the in style boy bands of all time, One Direction, created by Simon Cowell from contestants on the UK model of TV present “The X Factor” in 2010.
Payne met Nores, a businessman, in 2020, later visiting him at his residence in Palm Beach, Florida, in line with Nores, a twin U.S.-Argentina citizen.
“The last six months of his life we were together every single day, all the time, along with our girlfriends at that time,” Nores stated. Nores had final seen Payne that afternoon within the resort, stated his lawyer.
Argentine prosecutors had argued that Nores’ closeness with Payne, and his alleged function because the singer’s supervisor – a job Nores and his lawyer denied – made him accountable in his dying.
Prosecutors stated Payne’s post-mortem confirmed on the time of his dying he had “large quantities” of cocaine and alcohol in his system.
Nores’ lawyer, Rafael Cuneo Libarona, stated that Nores had despatched Payne’s household an electronic mail the month of his dying recommending he be despatched to a rehabilitation facility.
“It’s hard for someone famous to say no to drugs,” Cuneo Libarona stated. “Cocaine, ‘tusi’ (pink cocaine), crack, heroin are all drugs that are really accessible to famous people and there are so many dealers.”
“So let’s not look for who’s guilty, it’s the drugs that are at fault,” he stated.
Despite being cleared by the court docket, followers are nonetheless upset with him, stated Nores.
“When someone you grew up with, with their voice, their songs, and all of a sudden they’re gone, it’s hard to deal with,” Nores stated. “They’re trying to find an explanation.”
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