Whoa. A suspect in the death of Liam Payne is speaking out! On Saturday, Braian Nahuel Paiz sat down for an interview with Argentina’s Telefe Noticias, in which he denied supplying the One Direction star with drugs.
As Perezcious readers know, Liam died on October 16 after falling from his hotel balcony. He was on numerous drugs at the time, and last week, authorities charged three people for abandonment of a person followed by death and the supply and facilitation of narcotics.
This included an unidentified friend, hotel worker, and alleged “drug supplier.” Braian appears to be outing himself as the later suspect but insisted he didn’t do what he has been accused of. Related: Liam Payne’s Death Hit Kelly Osbourne ‘Hard’ Braian is a 24-year-old waiter, and he claimed he met the Strip That Down crooner when he dined at the restaurant he works at in Puerto Madero weeks before his death, where Liam was with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy and two others.
He said via translation: Hitting back at drug-supplying allegations, the waiter argued the 31-year-old was already on drugs when they met, claiming: Paiz claimed they first met at the “Hyatt in Palermo” on October 2.
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