In the wake of Liam Payne's passing, a hotel guest who witnessed his plunge to death has come forward to narrate their version of events. Payne lost his life at the CasaSur Palermo hotel in Buenos Aires, and per TMZ, the guest was there for his wedding.
Per TMZ, Bret Watson was sitting in a room on the first floor with his wedding planner. The two looked out of the window at one point, only to find a man, Payne, falling. They then ran to the balcony and peered over, only to find the singer's lifeless body, whom they identified immediately. Watson is featured on the documentary TMZ Investigates: Liam Payne: Who’s to Blame? and in it, he says:
"We immediately rushed out on the balcony to see what it was and when we looked down we could see it was Liam lying on the ground. He landed face up so we could tell right away it was him and he was motionless.”
Man who witnessed Liam Payne's fall says the moment is "burned into his brain," says it was "heartbreaking" seeing him like that
Per USA Today, he recalled the moment he saw Payne in a free fall:
"I was meeting our wedding planner. We had gone up to the room and happened to be looking out of the window of our hotel. We saw Liam fall.”
He went on:
"I don’t have a medical background but from what I saw it looked like he passed away on impact. Time stopped or slowed down immediately. Immediately afterwards, the wedding planner and myself looked at each other to just see, ‘Oh my God, this is real. This actually happened.’” Watson continued. “Seeing anyone just fall like that is heartbreaking but being able to see it happen and hear the impact on the ground which was more haunting than seeing him fall.”
He concluded, reflecting on the impact witnessing a man die had on him:
"Then seeing the immediate aftermath is something that is burned into my brain and I will never forget and I am still working through processing and understanding everything we saw.”
Liam Payne lost his life in October after he fell from the third floor of the same hotel. He was 31. Per Us Weekly, the Buenos Aires City Police responded to a call about an "aggressive man who may have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol" at the time.
For Watson, seeing Payne "fall like that" was "heartbreaking, but being able to see it happen and then hear the impact on the ground was more haunting than seeing him fall.”
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Liam Payne succumbed to several injuries, both “internal and external” hemorrhages. Per Us Weekly, at the time, the Emergency Medical Assistance System director Alberto Crescenti issued a statement revealing that Payne "had injuries incompatible with life due to the fall, so we had to confirm the death. There was no possibility of resuscitation.”
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