Liam Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, continues to endure emotional turmoil as new details about the late singer’s death emerge online.
On Friday, the Daily Mail released unsettling images from CCTV footage showing the late One Direction star being carried through the CasaSur Palermo Hotel shortly before his death on October 16, according to the footage’s timestamp.
The outlet reported that Payne had been “convulsing” in the hotel lobby in the hour leading up to his death, allegedly due to drug use.
“He could have been saved, he could have been helped,” a close friend of Cassidy, 25, exclusively told The Post. “It’s devastating — and infuriating.”
The friend continued, “Whenever it seems it can’t get more painful for Kate, it gets even more painful.”
The footage reportedly shows two hotel guests walking by as three men — two dressed in suits and one casually with a backpack — carried Payne. Two women were also seen standing near the reception desk observing the chaotic scene.
Page Six could not independently verify the identities of the individuals carrying Payne, but the Daily Mail claimed they were hotel staff.
A receptionist at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires declined to comment when reached on Friday.
The men were reportedly seen taking Payne to his third-floor room around 4:54 p.m. local time, with additional CCTV footage capturing them outside his suite at that time.
If the lobby footage was indeed taken around this time, it raises questions about why Payne was taken back to his room instead of kept in the lobby until medical assistance arrived.
In October, the 911 call made by the hotel manager just before Payne’s death was made public.
“We have a guest who is [allegedly] high and drunk; and when he is conscious, he is destroying his room and we need you to send someone, please. We need you to send someone urgently because I don’t know if his life is in danger,” the man, identified only as Estaban, told the dispatcher.