Liam Payne Was Dealt A Major Blow Days Before His Death As He Was Dropped By Record Label

Liam Payne's music career seemingly suffered a hitch as his record label dropped him just days before he died.

One of the last people who spoke with him before his fatal fall recalled him being pissed after reading an email where he yelled, "F-ck that sh-t, mate!"

The hotel guest also corroborated reports that Liam Payne was on drugs as he was acting erratically at the hotel before his demise.

It turns out that the "Midnight Hour" singer suffered a career setback just days before he fell from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

According to the Daily Mail, Payne's record label, Universal Music, dropped him just days before the tragic incident.

Payne was originally signed to Sony as part of his former boy band One Direction, but inked a new deal with Capitol Records in July 2016, an outfit owned by Universal, where he properly pursued his solo career.

He was said to have been "thrilled" when he signed the deal but was reportedly dropped following the company's recent reshuffle.

A fellow hotel guest recounted her encounter with the deceased singer, where she recalled him reacting angrily to an email.

According to the Daily Mail, a woman who identified herself as Rebecca disclosed that she saw him hanging out at the lobby of the hotel with his laptop open, wearing a white vest, cargo pants, and trainers, and that he reacted angrily to an email.

She was particularly concerned as he seemed to have the accessibility feature for disabled users turned on so that he got notified of the cursor's movement action on the screen.

"I have a blind relative and I realized he had the laptop on its accessibility setting, for some reason, so that each time he moved the mouse, hovering over something the machine spoke out loud to say where the cursor was," Rebecca explained.

She went on, "I assumed he was doing that for the attention too. Then he opened his emails and saw one which obviously upset him. Suddenly, he took the computer, shouted 'F-ck this sh-t mate!' and started bashing the computer on the ground."

Rebecca's account of her encounter with the "LP1" singer seemingly corroborated earlier reports that he was under the influence of drugs.

She explained that Payne's behavior of slamming his laptop on the ground left fellow guests and hotel staff concerned and that she went over to ask him, "Are you OK?" but "he just kind of grunted" and said he's "so f-cked up" because he "used to be in a boy band."

Rebecca then claimed that a British guy named Roger, who was with Payne, came over to apologize for his behavior and said, "I'm sorry, he just gets so high sometimes."

"I did wonder what these people with him were doing to help him, but maybe they had tried and failed. The hotel staff were freaking out and watching him really nervously. I could see one of them was on the phone to what I assumed was security or the police," she said.

The hotel guest noted that she tried to unravel why he was hanging out in the lobby, suspecting he was planning to meet someone to supply his drugs. He reportedly returned to the lobby, where he "tripped and fell flat on his face, sprawling across the floor."

"The staff came to help him and get him back in the elevator, and that's when I took the last photo," she said, referencing a photo she shared with the news outlet. "You can just see the arm of the English guy who was with him, holding the lift door open before taking them up to the third floor again."

Payne's girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, left him behind in Buenos Aires 2 days before his death. The pair had earlier arrived in the Argentinian capital earlier this month to attend his former One Direction bandmate Niall Horan's concert.

They were supposed to stay for just five days but ended up spending two weeks, after which she seemingly got homesick and decided to leave on October 14, two days before he died.

"I was so ready to leave," Cassidy shared in a TikTok video. "Honestly, love South America but I hate staying in one place for too long. And we were supposed to be there for, like, five days, turned into two weeks."

Even though she developed a "weird rash" before her flight due to her "anxiety," Cassidy added that she "was so happy to be home," as "It was so relieving."

Payne died on the spot after his fall and reportedly suffered life-altering degrees of injuries, including a fractured skull.

The head of Buenos Aires emergency services, Alberto Crescenti, disclosed that Payne had a "cranial fracture and extremely serious injuries that led to his immediate death."

He also told TN television that Payne was dead when paramedics arrived at 5 pm local time, adding, "Our role was to head there quickly, give medical attention, and try to resuscitate him, but his injuries were incompatible with life."