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One of the three suspects reportedly being investigated in connection to Liam Payne’s death, Braian Nahuel Paiz, has spoken out in a new interview and admits taking drugs with the singer in the days before his passing.
The 24-year-old Paiz, a waiter in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been accused of supplying drugs to Liam Payne, but he insists that he did not supply anything to the singer.
“We took drugs together but I never took drugs to him or accepted any money,” Paiz admitted to the Argentinian TV show Telefe Noticias on Saturday.
“I have messages where he’s offering me money because he was apparently used to offering money for everything but I never accepted anything.”
Braian Nahuel Paiz also claims the first time he met Liam Payne was at the restaurant where he works when the singer and his girlfriend Kate Cassidy dined there with two other people. It was then that he claims he and Payne exchanged contact information.
“I never supplied Liam with drugs,” Paiz said. “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 came down from his hotel room to fetch me because I had got lost.”
Braian Nahuel Paiz also claims that he and Payne communicated through a secret Instagram account.
“There was a moment when he approached me and asked me for my contact details,” Paiz claimed. “I gave him an Instagram and afterwards he sent me messages because he wanted to take drugs although he had already consumed narcotics.”
Paiz added that “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.”
The second time that he met with Liam Payne, the waiter said he spent the night and while he was there he smoked marijuana while the singer used cocaine.
Paiz shared a photo of himself and Payne together taken just a few days before the singer died.
According to Paiz, his home has been searched as part of the investigation into Liam Payne’s death, but he has yet to be officially questioned by investigators.
Last week, prosecutors in Argentina released a statement that three men, whom they did not identify by name, are being formally investigated on suspicion of the abandonment of a person followed by death and of supplying drugs.