Boy George has admitted regret for comments he made about Liam Payne before he died.
Whilst speaking on the High Performance podcast, the superstar singer/songwriter (born George Alan O’Dowd) reflected on a comment he’d made on social media about Payne several days prior to his tragic death.
“I’d actually put a message under a post saying, ‘He’s off his nut,’ which wasn’t very nice, but I felt it.” “I felt like he was out of control,’ wrote George.
George recalled learning of the former One Direction star’s death.
“You know, I was up at 5 am and it came up on the American news and I literally was like ‘What the f**k,'” he said. “I was literally like ‘No this isn’t real.’ I couldn’t take it in and I think everybody felt like that,” adding “When (his death) happened, it just hit me. Same way that Amy Winehouse hit me just because it felt so senseless.”
He told how he was “appalled” about comments where people had said he only cared because Payne “was good-looking.” “I watched the dad (Geoff Payne), and it was heartbreaking,” he said. “I was quite tearful about it. I really very felt sad.”
Liam died on October 16 at the age of 31 after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires.
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Author: Saul Goode
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