The 47-year-old singer spoke about her friendship with Payne, who shockingly passed away after falling from a third-story hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In a quiet moment of candor,
she explained that their last exchange was gentle and ordinary, the kind of check-in you only realize mattered later. “I’d known he was in Argentina. It was just chit-chat and pretty light,” she told The Times about the messages.
