Liam Payne suffers health issues, struggles after breakup with girlfriend

Texas model Maya Henry addressed her previous relationship with Liam Payne in a TikTok video less than a week before his.

Liam Payne had been struggling with issues related to his ex-girlfriend Maya Henry in the time

A source familiar with the matter told People that Payne was “extremely overwhelmed by all the legal issues” related to Henry.

Maya Henry, 23, terminated her contract with the former One Direction singer last week after she accused him of contacting her too many times, according to the Daily Mail. The couple had been engaged before calling it quits in 2022. Henry was born in Texas and is the author of the novel Looking Forward.

“The calls were always from different numbers. I never knew where they were coming from… Also Liam sent me emails. Not only me, but he blew up my mum’s phone. Is that normal behavior for you?” Henry claimed.

She also accused Liam Payne of “using One Direction fans as a weapon” against her. “Liam said he ‘One Direction fans’ because they would always be loyal to him and they wouldn’t snitch on him,” Henry added.

Liam Payne died after falling from the third floor of the CasaSur Palermo hotel in Buenos Aires on October 16, Argentine police confirmed to People and are investigating the cause of after conducting an autopsy.

The singer had a 7-year-old son, Bear Grey, with his ex-girlfriend, Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole.

Liam Payne had long been vocal about his struggles with health and addiction before his at the age of 31.

The former One Direction member previously explained that he used to cope with One Direction’s massive success, telling Men’s Health Australia that “it’s hard when you have the level of that we had in the band”.

“There are a lot of people struggling with health who don’t really get the help they need, and I think that’s a problem in our industry,” he told Men’s Health in 2019.

In a 2021 episode of the Diary of a CEO podcast, Payne said he had thoughts during his time in One Direction. In addition to Payne, the band, which includes Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson, rose to after appearing on The X-Factor in 2010. Malik left the group in 2015 and One Direction subsequently announced an indefinite hiatus.

Liam Payne gave an interview in June 2022 with Logan Paul in which he criticized his One Direction bandmates and revealed that he had completed 100 days of rehab.

“My own frustration with my career and where I’ve landed, I’ve been critical of everyone else, which is wrong. I want to apologise because that’s definitely not me,” Payne said in an eight-minute YouTube video.

In May 2024, Liam Payne’s ex-fiancée Maya Henry spoke to People about her novel Looking Forward, which she wrote while she was dating the singer.