Liam Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, continues to suffer as more details about the late singer’s death surface online.
On Friday, the Daily Mail published disturbing images from CCTV footage of the late One Direction member being carried through the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, seemingly just before his tragic death on Oct. 16, according to a timestamp on the footage.
Per the outlet, Payne had been “convulsing” in the lobby in the hour before his death as a result of the singer’s drug use.
“He could have been saved, he could have been helped,” a close friend of Cassidy, 25, exclusively told The Post. “It’s devastating — and infuriating.”
The pal added, “Whenever it seems it can’t get more painful for Kate, it gets even more painful.”
The footage appears to show two hotel guests walking by as three men — two dressed in suits and a third more casually with a backpack — carried Payne. Two women were also photographed looking at the chaotic scene standing near the reception desk.
Page Six has been unable to independently confirm the identities of the individuals carrying Payne, but the Daily Mail claimed they were hotel employees.
A receptionist at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires told us Friday they are unable to comment.
The men seem to have brought Payne to his third-floor room at around 4:54 p.m. local time, as another CCTV camera captured Payne and three men outside his room at that time.
If the lobby footage was indeed captured around that time, it is not clear why the men would have taken him back to his suite instead of keeping him in the lobby until medical help arrived.
In October, the 911 call the hotel manager placed just before Payne’s death was released.
“We have a guest who is [allegedly] high and drunk; and when he is conscious, he is destroying his room and we need you to send someone, please. We need you to send someone urgently because I don’t know if his life is in danger,” the man, identified only as Estaban, told the dispatcher.
“He is in a room that has a balcony and we are scared he might be endangering his life.”
When the dispatcher asked the manager if he was interested in police being called to the scene, he only requested SAME, Argentina’s medical emergencies services.
