Fame was the best and worst thing to happen to Liam Payne

For his whole adult life, Liam Payne was puppeted by music industry giants (Picture: Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage)‘Liam, I love you. You saved my life,’ I told Liam Payne when I met him at an album signing in 2019.‘Oh, thanks, darling,’ he replied with a smile, seeming genuinely touched despite presumably hearing those words thousands of times. That meant a lot to me, and I never imagined that less than five years later I’d be mourning his death.