Payne had also started a rehab program that March but did not finish it. He relapsed in April, according to a legal statement from his friend Rogelio Nores ( one of five people charged for his death ).

The new Rolling Stone exposé delves into the spiral of addiction and mental health struggles the former 1D singer faced before his shock death at 31 last year.

Four months after Liam Payne fatally fell from a hotel balcony in Argentina, his girlfriend Kate Cassidy shared the heartbreaking final text she sent the One Direction alum before his death.