A newly released emergency call detailed the chilling moments that led up to One Direction star Liam Payne’s deadly fall from a hotel balcony in Argentina.
A frantic manager for the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires begged law enforcement and requested “urgent” assistance, alleging the out-of-control singer was “putting his life at risk”
“Hello, good morning. I just called and my line got disconnected. I’m calling [from] the CasaSur hotel in Palermo, Costa Rica 6032,” the manager is heard saying in Spanish in audio obtained by The Sun UK and La Nacion.
“What happened there, sir?” the operator replied.
The manager, “Esteban,” claimed that Payne was destroying his hotel room and was under the influence of “drugs and alcohol.”
They discussed the location of the hotel and the manager insisted, “We need you to send someone urgently because, well, I don’t know if this guest’s life is at risk. They must be in a room that has a balcony. And well, we’re a little bit worried he’ll do something, that he’ll put his life at risk.”
“How long has it been there or is it a residential hotel?” the operator asked.
“No, no, he’s been there for two or three days,” the manager said.
“Resources” were sent at 5:04 p.m. and emergency medical services were requested after police were notified of a fall around 5:07 p.m., La Nacion reported.
Payne dead on the scene, with authorities saying “there was no possibility of resuscitating him.” Payne’s body was put into an ambulance that drove away with a police escort.
It’s not clear if Payne’s death was intentional or accidental, but Security Ministry of Buenos Aires representative Pablo Policicchio declared the musician “had thrown himself from the balcony of his room.”
Eyewitnesses at the hotel told TMZ that Payne “had been acting erratic” in the hotel lobby shortly before the 31-year-old hitmaker fell from the third-floor balcony of the hotel.
The pop star reportedly smashed his laptop in the lobby and had to be carried into his room.
An insider told Page Six that “Liam had been cycling through periods of ruinous behavior for a long time” adding that “his demons were much worse than he let on.”
Shortly before his death, Payne claimed he was having a “lovely day in Argentina” in a since-deleted Snapchat story during his vacation with girlfriend Kate Cassidy.
Cassidy flew back to Miami on Monday — two days before the tragedy.
The couple was in Argentina to see his former One Direction bandmate, Niall Horan, perform on Oct. 2 but then stayed longer than initially planned.
