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
Liam Payne opens up about rehab stay and viral One Direction comments
nme.comLiam Payne has opened up about a recent stint in rehab and his controversial and viral comments he made about One Direction on Logan Paul’s podcast.The singer appeared on YouTuber Paul’s Impaulsive series last June and claimed that one of his bandmates had thrown him “up a wall” during an argument.
He also said that there were “many reasons why I dislike Zayn [Malik]”.Payne shared a new YouTube video on his own channel last week (July 8), explaining to fans why he’s been quiet since that episode was released. “I needed to take a bit of time out for myself, actually, because I kind of became somebody who I didn’t really recognise anymore, and I’m sure you guys didn’t either,” he began.He continued to address his appearance on Paul’s podcast, saying: “I think, for me, a lot of what I said just came from the wrong place.
I was so angry at what was going on around me. Instead of taking a look inwards, I decided to look outwards at everybody else.
I just took it out on everybody else, which is just wrong, really, and my own frustrations with my own career and where I landed – I took shots at everybody else and that was wrong so I just wanna apologise for that in the first instance.”Addressing his comments about One Direction specifically, he said that his words had come from “self-protection”, but that “the rest of the boys really stuck by me when I needed them most, they kinda came to the rescue”.“Even Zayn, as well,” he added, “which is why I did send him a little thank you online.
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