Simon Cowell had to “disappear” after Liam Payne’s death, as he was “really, really struggling”.
The One Direction star was just 31 when he tragically died in October 2024, falling from a balcony on the third-floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the media mogul - who discovered Payne during auditions for The X Factor in 2010 and launched his career as a member of One Direction - has revealed his heartbreaking reaction to the singer's death, having stayed close with the members of the boy band.
