These two artists have been making national headlines in the past two months, and one interaction with each other has been going viral. Liam Payne recounted a time that happened at one of Diddy’s parties.
Liam Payne passed away on October 16, 2024, at the age of 31 after falling from a third-floor hotel room balcony. According to Alberto Crescenti, chief of Buenos Aires emergency services, Payne suffered “serious injuries” that proved fatal before responders could intervene. Crescenti told La Nación, “Our role was to head there quickly, give medical attention, and try to resuscitate him, but his injuries were incompatible with life.” Sources told ABC News that Todo Noticias and other Argentine media outlets reported that a preliminary report found evidence of exposure to “pink cocaine,” cocaine, alongside traces of methamphetamines, ketamine, MDMA, benzodiazepines, and crack cocaine in his system.
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A month before his death, Diddy was arrested in New York on September 16, 2024. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and was refused bail. His Los Angeles house was raided by Homeland Security earlier in the year, in connection to an ongoing federal sex trafficking investigation. The indictment was unsealed on Tuesday, September 17, 2024.
What happened to Liam Payne and Diddy?
On The Graham Norton Show, Liam Payne revealed an anecdote he had with Diddy at one of his parties. “I went to shake his hand and I was like ‘Nice to meet you’ and he goes ‘ha ha ha,’” he recounted. “It was like the longest handshake ever, and I looked into his eyes was like ‘when is this handshake going to end?’”
He also talked about an instance at the party when he approached Jay-Z “The worst of it happened. There was a whole thing with Jay-Z, and I went to lean in to speak to him, but you can’t lean in to speak to Jay-Z, you’re not allowed to lean in. And his bodyguard just, like, shoved me like this [mimes shoving Walliams with his shoulder], and I went flying across the room. And I was like, right, I’m just going to go and sit over here with Ellie Goulding now. Thank you, that’s enough. A very awkward moment.”
Pink Cocaine has been linked to both celebrities. Producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed a complaint that Combs’ employees were mandated to carry pink cocaine—as well as regular cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, and GHB (a date rape drug) with them at all times.
