This is the Guardian.

Today, the teen star who fell to earth, the glittering life and lonely death of Liam Payne.

A quick warning before we start, today's episode contains references to addiction and suicidal thoughts.

A whole generation of young people from all over the world will remember where they were last

Thursday when their phones pinged with the news.

That former One Direction star Liam Payne has been found dead at a hotel in Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Some celebrity deaths can feel tragically inevitable.

Amy Wine House and Alcohol. feel tragically inevitable.

Amy Winehouse and alcohol in 2011.

Matthew Perry and Ketamin in 2023.

But Liam Payne, falling from a balcony in Buenos Aires, leaving a hotel room littered with drugs.

Few people saw that coming.

The former boy band star had been open about his struggles with alcohol and depression.

There was a few pictures of me on a boat and I'm all like blowing out and I call it pills and booze face.

And I was like this, like my face was was just like 10 times more than it is now.

He talked about the difficulty of spending half of his life in the public glare

after joining one direction aged just 16.

And then it will be car hotel room, stage, sing, blocked.

So it was like they pulled the dust cloth off,

let us out for a minute and it wahoo!

And then it's like back underneath it here and I'm like, gert.

He'd been in one of the biggest boy bands of all time and even after that he seemed to have so much to live for.

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