Liam Payne allegedly was attempting to escape his hotel room at CasaSur Palermo when he fell to his death.
New security footage from the Buenos Aires hotel shows Payne being carried by three hotel workers to his room shortly before his death. After hearing the One Direction artist had threatened to use the balcony as a way to escape, the hotel employees left him alone in the room.
Payne hated being locked in rooms and had previously escaped from a balcony using a garden hose to reach the ground at a hotel in Florida back in September, sources told TMZ.
In the surveillance footage, Payne is fully conscious and seen standing fully upright and wrestling with hotel workers when they got to his room door, appearing to resist going inside. The workers then opened the room door with a master key and put Liam inside.
Liam Payne’s parents leave his funeral service last week in Amersham, United Kingdom. (Getty)
According to a police report obtained by TMZ, a mirror on the wall directly outside his room was removed so he wouldn’t damage it.
Minutes after being locked in his room, an employee called 911 saying they feared he would hurt himself using the balcony. “I don’t know whether his life may be in danger. He is in a room with a balcony, and, well, we’re a little afraid,” the employee said according to the 911 transcript. Payne fell to his death from that balcony shortly after.
When he took the fatal plunge, he had a bag strapped on him, which he didn’t have when he was being carried to the room. Payne appeared to have been attempting to get from the third floor balcony to a second floor balcony, per TMZ.
This theory is also supported in the police report, which states his bag was found on the second floor with a note inside that said “for Liam.”
Liam Payne’s funeral took place last week outside London.