Liam Payne’s dark final days exposed as waiter says they were in his hotel room doing drugs

An Argentinian waiter who spent time with Liam Payne before his tragic death says they did drugs in his hotel room, but although he declined the Rolex he was offered, he left with something else

The Argentinian waiter who was arrested in connection with Liam Payne’s death has revealed the keepsake he accepted off Liam, after turning down his Rolex.

Braian Nahuel Paiz, 24, said he met Liam in the restaurant he worked in two nights before he died, saying they spent the nights together drinking whiskey and taking cocaine. He was arrested on charges of supplying and facilitating narcotics, but denies any involvement in his death.

Now, in a bombshell interview, he admitted that although they took cocaine together, he didn’t sell them to Liam and only accepted one thing he offered – a drawing. Speaking on TMZ’s documentary Liam Payne: Who’s to Blame?, the hospitality worker and student has spoken out about what really happened on the few fateful days before Liam died after falling from a balcony at a Buenos Aires hotel.

Paiz said: “They say I’m a dealer, that I carried drugs, that I sold them. The truth is that no, I didn’t sell them.”

Braian has spoken out about his time with Liam during his final days ( 
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When asked if the waiter used drugs with Liam, he said yes, on both the first and second night that they spent time together. When asked which drugs, he confirmed they took cocaine together.

Paiz said: “There wasn’t even a lot of it but we had some with whiskey.” He added that a Dove soap box – that has been noticed in crime scene photographs – was in the room, as was some aluminium foil. The interviewer asked Paiz if he took any money, to which he denied, saying that Liam also offered him his Rolex, but he turned it down.

However, there was one item that he did accept from Liam after it was offered. He told the interviewer: “I didn’t accept anything, just a drawing he drew which was part of my eyes, nose, mouth.” He gestured to an area of his face to show which part Liam had sketched. “He draws, I draw,” he added. “I’m studying to do it, so I had drawings.”

It’s not the first time Braian has spoken out to clear his name. Speaking to journalist Guillermo Panizza on Argentinian TV in Novemebr, he said Liam used a secret Instagram account to communicate with him.

Speaking about the two nights they spent together, he said at the time: “I never supplied Liam with drugs. Liam’s first contact with me was at my place of work. We swapped details and saw each other later that night. It was all normal. He came down from his hotel room to fetch me because I had got lost.”

He continued: “We got together there and he showed me some of the music he was going to bring out. I’ve heard people saying he was taking drugs, but the truth is that when he got to the restaurant where I was working he was already under the effects of drugs and he didn’t actually eat anything.”