“Pink Cocaine” Found In Liam Payne Toxicology Report

A toxicology test has been conducted into Liam Payne’s devastating passing last week, revealing that he had “pink cocaine” and other substances in his system.

Payne passed away last Wednesday (16 October) after falling from the balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He reportedly fell to the hotel courtyard from a 13 or 14-metre height.

Sources told the US publication ABC News that following a partial autopsy on the singer, it was discovered that he had pink cocaine – a recreational drug cocktail that includes methamphetamine, ketamine, MDMA and others – cocaine, benzodiazepine, and crack in his system at the time of his passing. The publication also heard that an improvised pipe to ingest the drugs was found in his hotel room.

ABC News reports that Payne’s body will remain in Argentina until the autopsy is complete.

Before his passing, workers at the hotel in the Buenos Aires hotel where Payne would eventually fall from his hotel balcony called authorities and asked them to “send someone with urgency” for a guest they said was “drunk with drugs and alcohol.”

“We are afraid he could do something that threatens life,” workers at the hotel told authorities.

Last week, the head of local emergency services in Buenos Aires, Alberto Crescenti, reported that Payne suffered “very serious injuries” and there was “no possibility” for emergency services to save his life.

Payne found fame in 2010 after One Direction was formed on The X Factor in the UK. Band members Payne, Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson took over the globe for years. In 2015, the group announced a hiatus, and all five members went on to enjoy solo careers.

In a recent interview with The Telegraph, music legend Bruce Springsteen blasted the music industry for placing “enormous pressures” on young artists.

Springsteen said, “People continue to fall to it, [but] it’s a death cult. It’s a grift, man. That’s a part of the story that suckers some young people in, you know, but it’s that old story. Dying young – good for the record company, but what’s in it for you?”

Payne’s X-Factor alum, Katie Waissel, also criticised the music industry for not protecting young artists enough.

On social media, she said the industry needs to provide more “care and support for young artists.” All of Payne’s One Direction bandmates paid tribute to him last week.