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Launched in 2013, Harris’s project a not-for-profit dedicated to the prevention and treatment of co-event disorders (COD)-the combination of mental health challenges and substance use issues. US Weekly has partnered with Harris’s project to bring you The missing matterSpecial issue focusing on celebrity stories that were struggling with code. Here, we revisit our past broadcast of some of those stars.
This story ran on usmagazine.com on October 21, 2024:
Old Story: Liam Payne had multiple drugs – including crack and cocaine – in the pre -death system: Report
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New Story: Liam Payne had disorders that coincides-including anxiety, agoraphobia, depression and using cocaine-by death
In the years before his death on October 16, 2024, Liam Payne shared many honest moments about his mental health battles in several interviews. And while his struggle with substance misuse including alcohol drugs, cocaine and prescription is often reported, his connection with his mental health battles has reached a clearer hub. Quotes below inflate the severity of the disorders that coincides with the first One direction The star faced – and how he affected his life.
Depression experienced ‘so many times’
“When people get sad or depressed about themselves – as I’ve been so many times – it’s more about the fact because you know you could do something and you haven’t done it,” said Payne in a Video interview With MTV in October 2019. “This post can be quite self-tasting at some times, that you see so many of yourself all the time, that you have to be careful that everything is not starting to focus around you, which has ever been my greatest fear with any of this, in fact, because I hate it. Completely, and to as yourself, and to like yourself.
Payne explained that “Most Important Stupid, but it’s so true.
Had trouble with anxiety and agoraphobia
Sometimes fame was more than Payne could steal, he revealed in an interview in May 2019 with Middle East Esquire. “I don’t think I’m struggling in the sense of what you would naturally think of when walking down the street with everyone stopping me,” said Payne. “That is, it sometimes happens but mostly mentally where you are struggling with it. He is ready and always knows you would take a picture.”
And he shared that he had an agoraphobia – a anxiety disorder characterized by fear of being in overcrowded places that often manifest as panic attacks – and that he makes his daily life challenging. “I would never leave the house. And I sometimes suffer with it a little in the sense that I will have days where I don’t want to leave my house. Even if it goes to the shop alone,” he said. “I would go and order coffee in Starbucks and I would sweat because I wouldn’t know if I was doing the right thing or not. I would think: ‘F—, I don’t want to be here.’”
These mental health battles led to Payne to turn to substances to cope.
The recording academy remembered Liam Payne during the 2025 Grammys on Sunday, February 2, nearly five months after his death. Photos of Payne were shown during his One Direction days at the top of the segment in Memoriam. His voice could be heard as music was played in the background. “We never expected anything from this (…)
Had suicidal thoughts
When talking about substance misuse on the Podcast “CEO’s Diary” with Steven Bartlett In June 2021, Payne acknowledged that “suicidal thinking” was something he was also struggling to treat during his time with One Direction.
“There are some things I have never talked about definitely. It was really, really, really serious. It was a problem. And it was only until I saw myself after that, ‘Right, I need to fix myself.'”
He said it was a month sober at the time after not liking what he saw in the mirror. “My face was exactly, like, 10 times (puffier) than it is now. I didn’t like myself very much, and then I changed,” he said.
Kelly Osbourne on Liam Payne: ‘He shouted for help’
Payne’s challenge with a joint disorders was obvious to their friend Kelly Osbournewho often spoke to him about his own substance in misuse and mental health. Numerous Weekly US In a unique interview last year that his death was “hitting hard,” she revealed that he believed he was in a “very good place” last time they spoke.
“He checked me to make sure I was right and said that if he needed anything he was ever there, and the fact that no one was there for my heart is completely,” he said. “For someone to be alone in that mental state, and he was shouting for help, and no one helped him. I think that’s a bit beyond heartbreak.”
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