Payne had also started a rehab program that March but did not finish it. He relapsed in April, according to a legal statement from his friend Rogelio Nores ( one of five people charged for his death ).

Liam Payne was “sectioned” after suffering an overdose in the months before his death in October last year, a close friend of the late singer has claimed. One Direction star Payne died aged 31 on October 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.

The new Rolling Stone exposé delves into the spiral of addiction and mental health struggles the former 1D singer faced before his shock death at 31 last year.