Nicole Scherzinger was texting Liam Payne on the day he died: report

nypost.com:

Billboard in an interview published on Thursday. “On the Wednesday when he died, she was still texting him that day.”After learning of Payne’s death, Scherzinger still performed as Norma Desmond in the Broadway production — a move Webber applauded her for. “She’d just heard that he died,” he explained, “and the fact that she even did the show at all is extraordinary.

I mean, she is an amazing, amazing woman. She is without any question one of the finest performers I’ve ever worked with.”The Post has reached out to Scherzinger’s rep.The singer was always in Payne’s corner.She was a judge on “The X Factor” when One Direction was created.

Resurfaced footage showed Scherzinger, not Simon Cowell, was the one who suggested putting Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Payne in the boy group instead of allowing them to compete as individuals.Payne passed away earlier this month after falling from his third-floor balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.The boy band alum fractured his skull and died instantly from “very serious injuries,” according to Buenos Aires Emergency Services Chief Alberto Crescenti.

He also suffered internal and external hemorrhages in the skull, thorax, abdomen and limbs, which “contributed to the mechanism of death,” per the autopsy.However, Payne had a toxic cocktail of drugs in his system that also appeared in his preliminary autopsy report.