Liam Payne had multiple substances in his system when he died

[just444]

https://instagram.com/p/DBZQUUhB2vs

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Argentinian authorities released toxicology results from a partial autopsy

At the time of his death pink cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy, and methamphetamine were in his system

Comments

[la_petite_singe]

With stuff like Child Star, Quiet on Set, the Lou Pearlman doc, the Nick/Aaron Carter one, etc, etc, it feels like we're finally really ready to understand that fame is just really plain unhealthy and dangerous for kids/tweens/teens...but like, are we as a society ready to actually DO anything about it, or just acknowledge it after the fact? As long as they're still making $$$$$ for powerful people, I fear it's not really going to change. And of course now we have this whole issue of 'family bloggers' and child 'influencers' that's totally unregulated.

(That's not to say fame is 100% to blame and he didn't have any responsibility or choice in his own life, bc obviously he did and his bad decisions and death were a result of many things. But seriously, when are we going to stop putting people through this and then watching them self-destruct?)

[ky16]

To be honest I was thinking this week that’s it’s gotta be a bit of a mind fuck for the other guys that they are suddenly like the “current face” of the tragic child star conversation. Like no one cared that 1D were young stars a few weeks ago and they were never really included in that conversation. Liam had been relatively open that he had demons and struggles with at least alcohol and the public didn’t really care until he died. And now there are articles being like “we shouldn’t let under 18 year olds be pop stars” with their faces all over it and it’s 14 years into their careers.

[totteringg]

Yeah wasn't Liam like 17 on the X factor? I doubt things would've been significantly different for him if 1D had started out a year or two later. I think there's just an extremely high level of fame that's really hard to deal with for a lot of people.

[hellcatshalala]

he was 14 the first time he tried for XF and 16 when he was called for 1d

[ky16]

I agree that just saying “under 18 shouldn’t be allowed” is over simplified to be honest but I do think there should be more said/done to protect young stars. I think there’s a much bigger conversation re: 1D too and none of these articles are really scratching the surface.

I just find it kind of crazy that no one cared when it came to this specific group (who were always 16-18 when things started) until someone died. Like suddenly people are like that shouldn’t have happened but it’s another case where we only say that retroactively.

[rihaty]

I’m the same age as Louis and so when they came on the scene I didn’t think “wow they’re so young!” I was really into 1D and followed their video content /the fandom up until probably Midnight memories. I think after that I would still buy/listen to their music but wasn’t as much in the fandom or following interviews etc. I still listen to their music semi-regularly, especially Four and Made in the AM. Anyway, I hadn’t really gone back to watch older videos of when they were young and now I’m doing a lot of reminiscing and jfc they were SO so young. And so naive. And then seeing videos of Liam and even Niall talking about how they’d just stay in hotel rooms and couldn’t even really go for walks during those years. Working nonstop for five years as kids basically with the only solace drinking in your hotel room? It’s really no wonder Zayn left! I have newfound sympathy for him

[floatinglately]

someone reminded me that on an interview a while ago liam said that their management had them staying in separate hotel rooms on later tours because of how famous they were (or something like that, i didn’t go back to the actual interview) & liam said that’s when he started developing a drinking problem :(

[rihaty]

I saw that, too. It must’ve been a super lonely lifestyle. Simon Cowell is a POS. They literally worked nonstop for five years, releasing an album EVERY year. No breaks.

[piratesswoop]

mila tequila posted a retrospective of their career literally like a couple days before liam passed and like you, my interest in them sort of petered out by midnight memories so it’s been really almost a decade since i was really involved in the fandom. watching her video and seeing how young they truly were when they were first put together was surreal. they were all truly babies, like way too young for the kind of almost overnight stardom they experienced.

[2_on]

the ny times just wrote an article about this

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/opinion/liam-payne-death-boy-band.html?ogrp=ctr&unlocked_article_code=1.T04.l5es.mwzTWAfO8wR0&smid=url-share

[misscrystal25]

It's so rare to see a comment like this on ONTD these days, but I love it. I agree with everything you said.