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British singer-songwriter Liam Payne had spoken publicly about struggles with substance abuse and the pressures of teenage stardom (Credit: AFP)

One Direction star Liam Payne consumed cocaine, alcohol and a prescription antidepressant before falling to his death from a Buenos Aires hotel balcony last month, Argentine prosecutors said Thursday.

The prosecutor's office added that three people were charged with supplying him with drugs and one of them was also charged with abandoning a person in a vulnerable state.

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