Liam Payne’s girlfriend heartbroken by ‘painful’ CCTV footage of singer being carried through hotel lobby: ‘Could have been saved’

Liam Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, continues to suffer as more details about the late singer’s death surface online.

On Friday, the Daily Mail published disturbing images from CCTV footage of the late One Direction member being carried through the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, seemingly just before his tragic death on Oct. 16, according to a timestamp on the footage.

Per the outlet, Payne had been “convulsing” in the lobby in the hour before his death as a result of the singer’s drug use.

“He could have been saved, he could have been helped,” a close friend of Cassidy, 25, exclusively told The Post. “It’s devastating — and infuriating.”

The pal added, “Whenever it seems it can’t get more painful for Kate, it gets even more painful.”

Liam Payne’girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, is heartbroken over a “painful” photo of the late singer that was released online. AFP via Getty Images
The photo is a still from CCTV footage that showed Payne being carried through the CasaSur Palermo Hotel lobby just minutes before he died.
He had reportedly been “convulsing” before three men got him under control. liampayne/Instagram

The footage appears to show two hotel guests walking by as three men — two dressed in suits and a third more casually with a backpack — carried Payne. Two women were also photographed looking at the chaotic scene standing near the reception desk.

Page Six has been unable to independently confirm the identities of the individuals carrying Payne, but the Daily Mail claimed they were hotel employees.

A receptionist at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires told us Friday they are unable to comment.

The men seem to have brought Payne to his third-floor room at around 4:54 p.m. local time, as another CCTV camera captured Payne and three men outside his room at that time.

If the lobby footage was indeed captured around that time, it is not clear why the men would have taken him back to his suite instead of keeping him in the lobby until medical help arrived.

“He could have been saved,” a close friend of Cassidy told The Post, reflecting on what happened to Payne. Kate Cassidy/Instagram
“Whenever it seems it can’t get more painful for Kate, it gets even more painful,” the friend added. Kate Cassidy/Instagram
Payne was under the influence of multiple drugs the day he died, per his toxicology report.
Hotel guests previously noted seeing him act in an “erratic” manner.

In October, the 911 call the hotel manager placed just before Payne’s death was released.

“We have a guest who is [allegedly] high and drunk; and when he is conscious, he is destroying his room and we need you to send someone, please. We need you to send someone urgently because I don’t know if his life is in danger,” the man, identified only as Estaban, told the dispatcher.

“He is in a room that has a balcony and we are scared he might be endangering his life.”

When the dispatcher asked the manager if he was interested in police being called to the scene, he only requested SAME, Argentina’s medical emergencies services.

The CasaSur Palermo hotel manager called emergency services at some point. ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA
“When he is conscious, he is destroying his room and we need you to send someone, please,” the manager said on a 911 call. .
A receptionist at CasaSur Palermo Hotel declined to comment on whether the staff acted in a negligent manner. Amelia McGoldrick/MEGA

By the time the ambulance arrived, however, Payne had fallen from his hotel balcony in a “state of semi or total unconsciousness,” which meant suicide was ruled out.

SAME head Alberto Crescenti previously told Argentina’s Todo Noticias TV channel, “We arrived in time to try and revive him, but there was nothing we could do.”

Guests had reportedly seen Payne acting “erratically” earlier in the day and even smashed his laptop in the hotel lobby, prompting workers to escort him back up to his room.

Page Six has reached out to Payne’s estate rep and attorney for comment but did not immediately hear back. Local police declined to comment and the prosecutor’s office in Argentina could not be reached.

Payne tragically fell to his death from his third-story hotel balcony on Oct. 16. He was 31. Rosana Alvarez Mullner/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
He died from the multiple traumas and bleeding he sustained as a result of the fall. Getty Images

The investigation into Payne’s death is ongoing, but at the time of publication, only three people have been charged.

An alleged drug dealer and a former hotel employee named Braian Nahuel Paiz were charged with supplying the “Story of My Life” singer with narcotics. Paiz has denied the claims against him.

The prosecutor’s office also charged Payne’s friend, believed to be Rogelio “Roger” Nores, with negligence for failing to inform the singer’s family of his relapse and not responding to hotel staff’s calls.

Three people have been charged in connection with Payne’s death. SplashNews.com
The late pop star was laid to rest back in the UK on Wednesday. WireImage

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