After Braian Nahuel Paiz was charged in connection to Liam Payne’s sudden dying at 31, he completely informed Us Weekly how he plans to cooperate totally with the continuing police investigation.
“I need to contribute every thing: my telephone, every thing to the investigation,” Paiz completely informed Us. “I’ve nothing that may hurt me. … The opposite factor is to contribute what I noticed personally and what I skilled firsthand.”
Paiz has but to testify to prosecutors, however he plans to share every thing he witnessed. Based on Paiz, he hopes that “justice [will] be served.”
Payne, greatest often known as one-fifth of British boy band One Route, fell to his dying from a third-story Buenos Aires lodge balcony final month. An post-mortem revealed that Payne sustained a number of accidents involving inside and exterior hemorrhage and had numerous medicine in his system.
Native Buenos Aires prosecutors subsequently launched an investigation into the circumstances of Payne’s dying. They charged Paiz and two different people with abandonment resulting in dying and the availability and facilitation of narcotics. (Rogelio Nores was additionally implicated within the investigation, however he denied the claims.)
Paiz mentioned he had solely met Payne twice, hanging out on the late singer’s lodge in Buenos Aires alone.
“We met up with Liam, [it was] chill. We met, we listened to some music,” Paiz recalled to Us. “He requested me what sort of music I preferred, hip hop or dance. I informed him dance.” Payne then put “some beats” on his pc and lower tough musical tracks, Paiz recalled.
Paiz claimed that he met Payne by his job at native restaurant Cabaña Las Lilas. Payne then despatched Paiz a personal Instagram message from a burner account.
After Paiz traveled to Payne’s lodge, they bonded. He denied supplying Payne with medicine.
“No, we simply noticed one another,” Paiz informed Us, alleging that the singer was already beneath the affect once they met up on October 13. “The one who was there earlier than [me], I suppose, left him the field of cleaning soap and every thing [that smuggled the drugs up to his room].”
Paiz additional claimed that Payne requested him to go away when one other particular person arrived.
“I don’t know what was occurring, what was that,” Paiz informed Us. “I spotted, as a result of I had my again turned and he circled, what was occurring. I circled, bought up, opened the door and there was nobody.”
Paiz didn’t see the opposite particular person or discern their identification earlier than he left the room.
A number of days later, Paiz came upon that Payne had suffered his deadly fall.
“It was actually unhealthy,” he mentioned, noting certainly one of his coworkers messaged him in regards to the information. “I bought actually unhappy, actually unhealthy at work. … It took every thing from me.”
Payne, for his half, is survived by his mother and father, his two older sisters and his 7-year-old son, whom she shared with ex Cheryl Cole. His stays have been flown again to his native U.Ok. earlier this month forward of a funeral service.
In case you or somebody you realize is scuffling with substance abuse, contact the Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Providers Administration (SAMHSA) Nationwide Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
With reporting by Luciana Arias