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Pink Cocaine Does ‘Nothing But Kill,’ Expert Says After Liam Payne's Death


Addiction specialist Richard Taite told Us that drugs like pink cocaine, which Liam Payne had in his system when he died, ‘do nothing but kill people’

“All these drugs do nothing but kill people,” addiction specialist Richard Taite exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, October 21, of pink cocaine, which he said is “coming in[to] fashion now,” and fentanyl. Payne’s partial autopsy showed that he had “pink cocaine” in his system when he died at age 31 on October 16 after falling from a third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Harry Styles said he is “truly devastated by Liam’s passing” in an October 17 Instagram statement, and Zayn Malik shared a heartwarming message noting that he “always secretly respected” Payne’s candor even though they “butted heads because” of it sometimes.

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