Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
Kevin Patrick Sullivan, better known as Field Medic, looked in the mirror one day and was disturbed by what he saw. His face was bloated, he was no longer as skinny as he used to be, and he didn’t feel young anymore.
He realized that “the shit that I was doing was actually taking its effect on my body,” he tells me on the phone in late September, over a year after this revelation.
He decided to get sober. He’s spent lockdown in Burbank, which he describes as a magical suburb of Los Angeles where The Wonder Years was filmed and people are riding horses down the street. “It’s a fine enough place to be locked up,” he says, though he’s jealous of my ability to sit at coffee shops.
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