Liam Payne Opens Up About His Darkest Moments, Failed Relationships & Entrepreneurship

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Liam Payne has been subjected to the intensity of the spotlight from the age of just 14, when he found global fame following his entry in to the X Factor’s seventh series, and the dizzying rise once he exited as one fifth of the group One Direction. The band was cemented as a phenomenon overnight-their success and the surrounding hype was likened to that of a modern-day Beatles at time of their debut single release. They became the first UK group ever to have their debut album reach number one in the United States. There probably are not many who are better placed than Liam to discuss instantaneous fame and the churning of its 'machine’. Liam has gone from a teen star to a fully-fledged solo artist who has taken ownership of his career in terms of its creative direction and elevated further with a strong signature pop/rnb style and a string of hits both here and abroad. He’s had his music streamed over a total of 2bn times. However, there is much more to him than the image of simply being a teen heartthrob or sugary popstar. The X Factor may be notorious for churning out ‘instant’ popstars but Liam clearly has a deep appreciation for music and the process behind its production. He studied as a musician prior to the start of his mainstream career and has grown as a gifted songwriter, with 40+ writing and co-writing credits to his name. He has previously said that he is accustomed to writing and recording entire albums in six weeks or less, and his evolution on personal and creative levels has no doubt been accelerated by his exposure. This conversation today isn’t your normal “reunion chat” we speak about so much in a lot of depth, everything from his relationships, his darkest times and everything in-between. Its open, its honest and its inspiring. During our conversation Liam mentioned it was one of the best chats he’d had in a while and I felt that, I hope you do too. Follow Liam: Twitter - https://twitter.com/LiamPayne Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/liampayne Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are very few people, maybe just the five of them on planet Earth that have gone through what my next
0:14.3	guest has gone through over the last decade. Very, very few people on planet Earth
0:19.0	that can tell you the stories he can tell you and talk to you about the lessons he's learned.
0:23.4	Liam Payne is a miraculous, inspiring, complex, very honest, very vulnerable,
0:31.9	very open book. Today he's going to tell you about things that he probably shouldn't say and topics that he probably shouldn't talk about.
0:40.0	But just imagine, imagine being catapulted into stardom at 14 years old and becoming
0:46.8	what many consider to be the modern day Beatles. He toured the world with one
0:51.9	direction. They had their ups, their downs, their mental health crises,
0:56.7	their scandals, their relationships and everything in between. You know if I was 16 years old and you asked me what I wanted to be, if I could, you know, dream up my life, I'd probably say professional football player or being in a boy band and traveling the world seems like a life that we'd all give
1:14.0	everything to have but what you're going to hear today is very different and it
1:18.2	might just change your mind it certainly changed mine so further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett,
1:24.5	and this is the driver CEO.
1:26.3	I hope nobody's listening.
1:27.8	But if you are, then please keep this to yourself. of the place I'm
1:43.7	Crazy crazy year society all of us have had with this whole lockdown situation. A place I wanted to start is just to ask how it's been for you.
1:46.6	It has been interesting.
1:48.8	I feel like I got the lockdown, the first depressive part of lockdown a lot later than everybody else because our work went through the roof and basically it was interesting because I had to learn
2:02.0	Styling makeup hair all these things that I wouldn't usually do when I'm with
2:06.2	my team and I lost everyone because you couldn't have anyone close contact so I just had me and a
2:09.2	camera guy that was staying with me. So every job was like I mean we even had one day where we set up our own green screen and we set the green
2:15.8	screw up from 1 PM until 10 and then recorded till 5 o'clock in the morning. So it was like a whole day.
2:21.3	So we were busier than ever and then we
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