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Liam Payne asked me to be his best man. Three days later he was dead: Star's closest confidant tells FRED KELLY horrifying truth of singer's drug use and how he was 'sectioned after an overdose' in stunning world-first interview


On October 13 last year, Liam Payne asked Roger Nores if he would be best man at his wedding to his girlfriend Kate Cassidy. Roger gladly accepted - even though Liam had yet to propose.

This is the definitive account of the singer’s final months and the most uncompromising portrait so far of the man the world fell in love with all the way back in 2008, when he first appeared on ITV’s X Factor talent show as a fresh-faced 14-year-old from Wolverhampton. And so, in the summer of last year, Liam flew to Palm Beach, Florida, and moved into the $9,500-per-month apartment which he shared with new girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, whom he had met in 2022 at the bar in South Carolina where she was working as a waitress. In early August 2024, Geoff Payne suggested that Liam appear as a judge on the upcoming Netflix talent show Building The Band, which was being filmed in Manchester and is slated to air later this year.

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