Robbie Williams told Deadline on Saturday that Liam Payne’s tragic death had hit him hard: “We’re processing a world-wide shock.
I’m sat in depression, and I’m sat in sadness. A huge part of that is Liam-shaped.” Williams called for action around the way society handles fame and celebrity, saying, “Nothing seems to change and if isn’t me, then who?… I am the problem if I do nothing.
We are the problem if we don’t.” Payne, a former member of the band One Direction, died on Wednesday after falling from the third-floor balcony of room at the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He was 31. Like Payne when he joined One Direction, Williams was aged just 16 when he shot to fame with the band Take That in 1990.
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