Friends of singer Liam Payne shared the star’s secret struggles with life away from One Direction after the band took a break in 2015 before his tragic death

Liam Payne’s friends previously shared the star’s secret struggles away from One Direction.

The singer, 31, was holidaying in Buenos Aires with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy when he fell from the third floor of a hotel. Police, firefighters and ambulances were seen outside of a hotel in the Argentina capital after Liam tragically fell. A body was found in an internal patio of the hotel.

The police were called to the hotel by the hotel manager. City ambulance service provider spokesman Alberto Crescenti said he had fallen around 40 metres and suffered “severe injuries which were incompatible with life.”

Earlier this year, the star was rushed to hospital when he was celebrating his one-year anniversary with 23-year-old girlfriend Kate Cassidy at the five star Mandarin Oriental hotel in Lake Como. Liam was reportedly “in agony” before he was rushed to hospital. A friend of Liam shared that the pop star had “struggled” with life after One Direction took a break in 2015.

The friend told The Sun: “It doesn’t come as a huge surprise — his lifestyle has been on a bit of a downward spiral for a while. Liam struggled so much in the band due to the heavy workload and being in the spotlight.” They shared Liam was in a bubble while in the band and the “restrictions really took their toll”. Adding: “His partying since the band’s break could well be a reaction to this.”

At the time, Liam’s 64-year-old mother Karen said she was feeling “helpless” while her son was in care in a foreign country more than 900 miles away. Speaking to the MailOnline, she said: “We are all worried sick about it but we just have to get on. It’s horrible – him being all the way over there. He’s in Milan and it sounds like he’ll be there for a week. I feel helpless.”

It was reported Liam had been rushed to hospital after suffering pain in his kidneys. A source told The Sun: “Liam is in a bad way but he’s in the best place he can be and finally doctors will be able to get to the bottom of what is going on. Naturally he is gutted that his and Kate’s trip to Lake Como has been ruined but at least she was there to help him when he fell ill.

“Doctors have warned him not to expect to be signed off to go home for at least another six days.” It has been well documented that Liam has suffered from health issues ever since he was a newborn baby as he arrived into the world several weeks premature. Doctors discovered he had scarring on one of his kidneys and he was required to receive sixteen injections into each of his arms twice a day to keep him alive.

His health eventually improved as he grew older and he threw himself into sports to keep healthy. He later explained that his health scare as a baby gave him a clear perspective to live a healthier life. He said previously: “I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.”