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John Besley

Liam Payne ‘sectioned’ after drug overdose in months before death, friend says

File photo dated 01/10/18 of Liam Payne (Ian West/PA) - (PA Wire)

Liam Payne was “sectioned” after suffering an overdose in the months before his death in October last year, a close friend of the late singer has claimed.

One Direction star Payne died aged 31 on October 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.

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