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I idolised One Direction like so many young girls. Did our devotion contribute to Liam Payne's tragic demise?

Last night at a quarter to 11, my phone buzzed as 17 text messages landed, one after the other. All from friends and family, stunned by the news of Liam Payne's untimely death.

Two were from my sisters, the rest from my former schoolmates (all female) – all stunned by the news of Liam Payne's untimely death in Buenos Aires and all struggling to express their shock and grief. When Harry Styles threw up on a Los Angeles highway after a night out in 2014, we all knew about it - and a shrine was erected by a fan in the spot that he had vomited. In 2015, when the band cancelled a concert in Belfast at the city's SSE Arena to the dismay of fans, their management claimed it was due to Payne being taken 'suddenly ill'.

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