Nicole Scherzinger was nonetheless in contact with the late One Course star, Liam Payne, till the day he died, in accordance with Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The composer, 76, who wrote the music for Broadway manufacturing Sundown Blvd. which stars Scherzinger, 46, made the feedback in a Billboard interview revealed Thursday, October 24.
“I suppose one thing that hasn’t been stated, and I suppose I might say, is that after all she mentored Liam, from One Course,” Lloyd Webber stated of The Pussycat Dolls star. “On the Wednesday when he died, she was nonetheless texting him that day.”
After listening to the tragic information of Payne’s passing, Scherzinger managed to observe by means of along with her commitments to play Norma Desmond in Sundown Blvd. that very same night time.
“She’d simply heard that he died and the truth that she even did the present in any respect is extraordinary. I imply, she is an incredible, wonderful lady,” Lloyd Webber advised the outlet, “She is with none query one of many best performers I’ve ever labored with.”
Scherzinger first met Payne when he auditioned as a teen on The X Issue UK in 2010 the place the singer was working as a choose on the time. She supported him from the start.
Extra just lately, Payne and Scherzinger labored collectively as judges on a brand new expertise competitors sequence for Netflix known as Constructing the Band. Future’s Little one star Kelly Rowland was a fellow choose within the actuality present whereas The Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean was host. Though the present was greenlit by Netflix in Could and filming wrapped in August, it’s unclear whether or not it’s going to nonetheless go to air following Payne’s loss of life.
Us Weekly confirmed on Wednesday, October 16, that Payne died on the age of 31 after falling from his resort room’s third-story balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An post-mortem report obtained by Us revealed that the musician died of “a number of traumas” involving “inner and exterior hemorrhage.”
Payne rose to fame on the UK model of The X Issue, on which he and bandmates Harry Kinds, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson had been shaped into One Course. The group went on an indefinite hiatus one yr after Malik left the band in 2015.
“We’re fully devastated by the information of Liam’s passing,” the group’s remaining members wrote in a joint Instagram assertion on Thursday, October 17, earlier than every member shared their very own particular person tributes.
“The reminiscences we shared with him might be treasured endlessly,” their message continued. “For now, our ideas are along with his household, his mates, and the followers who beloved him alongside us. We’ll miss him terribly. We love you Liam. Louis, Zayn, Niall and Harry.”