A suspect under investigation in connection with Liam Payne’s death has denied providing the singer with drugs.
The individual, identified as Brian Nahuel Paiz, reportedly linked up with Payne multiple times before he tragically fell to his death on October 16.
Although the alleged drug dealer denied supplying drugs to Liam Payne, he admitted they knew each other and had used drugs together during a prior meetup.
In an interview on Argentinian TV, Brian Nahuel Paiz discussed his relationship with Liam Payne, as he now finds himself at the center of the investigation into the singer’s untimely death.
Paiz revealed that he first met Payne on October 2 while working as a waiter at a restaurant the singer had visited. After their initial interaction, they exchanged contact information and later arranged a second meeting in Payne’s room at a Palermo Hotel.
“I never supplied Liam with drugs. Liam’s first contact with me was at my place of work. We swapped details and saw each other later that night. It was all normal,” he said, per the Daily Mail.
“I’ve heard people saying he was taking drugs, but the truth is that when he got to the restaurant where I was working, he was already under the effects of drugs, and he didn’t actually eat anything.”
Paiz also claimed that after first meeting the singer, he received several Instagram messages from him because “he wanted to take drugs although he had already consumed narcotics.”
Paiz didn’t share many details about what happened when he first met with Payne, aside from mentioning they had whiskey shots together.
However, his account of their second meetup on October 13 suggested that their interaction was friendly and “intimate.”
“We spent the night together, we consumed drugs because the truth is that something intimate happened,” he said about their second meeting at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel.
“He wasn’t aggressive at all, he behaved really well with me, he was really sweet,” the drug dealer claimed. “He asked me if I was okay. I’ve got all the messages where we arranged that second meeting. I haven’t erased anything.”
Paiz, who has since been fired from his job, claimed that he never “accepted any money” or any other gift despite the singer making multiple offers to him.
He shared, “I have messages where he’s offering me money because he was apparently used to offering money for everything, but I never accepted anything.”
“When I left, he wanted to give me some clothes so that I had a memory of being with him, but I left it behind the TV because I didn’t want to take it,” Paiz added.
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