Boy George is haunted by the “not very good” feedback he made about Liam Payne within the weeks earlier than his dying on Oct. 16 and shared his regrets as the previous One Course singer is laid to relaxation.
The lead singer of ’80s band Tradition Membership, actual identify is George O’Dowd, made the confession on Thursday’s episode of Excessive Efficiency podcast with Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes as he contemplated on the significance of younger celebrities gaining access to preventative remedy to keep away from devastating drug-related incidents as what occurred to Payne.
The “Strip That Down” hitmaker tragically fell to his dying from a third-floor balcony of CasaSur Palermo Resort in Buenos Aires and toxicology experiences confirmed that he had unlawful medication in his system and was semi-unconscious when he fell. On the time of his dying, partial post-mortem experiences revealed that he had “pink cocaine” – a leisure drug that’s usually a mixture of methamphetamine, ketamine, MDMA, and different medication – in addition to crack, cocaine, and benzodiazepine.
“Within the case of Liam Payne, I’d watched him a number of days earlier than it occurred. I bear in mind watching on-line and I’d really put a message underneath a put up saying ‘He’s off his nut,’ which wasn’t very good, however I felt it. I felt like he was uncontrolled,” Boy George stated including: “And when it occurred, it simply hit me, the identical means that Amy Winehouse hit me, as a result of it felt so mindless.”
The singer additionally talked about his shock upon studying of Payne’s dying from the information, pondering that it wasn’t actual at first. “I used to be up at 5 within the morning, and it got here up on the American information, and I actually was like ‘What the f**ok?’ I used to be actually like ‘No, this isn’t actual’. I couldn’t take it in,” he shared. He added that it was “heartbreaking” to observe Payne’s dad and stated: “I used to be fairly tearful about it. I really actually felt very unhappy.”
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Boy George was among the many many celebrities who paid tribute to Payne and wrote: “How unhappy is the dying of Liam Payne. Simply terrible information to get up to. God bless his household. I’m completely shocked. R.I.P.” He beforehand clashed with Payne after the 2013 BRIT Awards, the place he had taken his 13-year-0ld niece. He criticized the 1D singer claiming that he refused to have an image together with her.
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“Prime marks to Harry Kinds for stopping for an image with my niece and B****x’s to Liam and the disrespectful w****r of a minder!” he tweeted then, to which Payne replied: “@BoyGeorge now now boy lets not inform porkies. Firstly thanks for getting my identify flawed 3 times, then asking me the place is Liam?…awkward. Then whenever you lastly acquired it proper saying you needed Niall as an alternative.”
Payne added: “When you would have requested me for an image i might have stopped bro I simply did what you stated and pointed Niall out for you so u simply preserve sporting ur unusual hats and luxuriate in your self my little Georgie pie… It’s nonetheless not cool you simply look bizarre.”
Boy George’s interview on Excessive Efficiency comes on the day Payne was laid to relaxation. It was not the One Course reunion followers had anticipated as former bandmates Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Kinds, and Louis Tomlinson all attended his funeral.
