Liam Payne’s final album has been described as his most ‘self-reflective’ work ever with a poignant track titled Safe in Heaven.
It comes following the first anniversary of the One Direction star’s tragic death aged 31 after he fell from a third floor balcony at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires on October 16, 2024.
A subsequent toxicology report revealed alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system.
Liam was said to be ‘really proud’ of his second solo album which also featured a song called Rainbows in which he sang about ‘searching for a way back to myself’.
However despite his enthusiasm, and the release of his single Teardrops in March 2024, bosses at his label Capitol Records put the album on hold, with it now being revealed the decision was made over concerns about the star’s mental health.
A source said: ‘Liam was really proud of his second album, but the label was concerned he wasn’t in the right headspace to release it. Ultimately, this led to them going their separate ways’.
Liam Payne ‘s final album has been described as his most ‘self-reflective’ work ever with a poignant track titled Safe in Heaven (Pictured March 2024)
Liam was said to be ‘really proud’ of his second solo album which also featured a song called Rainbows in which he sang about ‘searching for a way back to myself’ (pictured 2018)
‘The whole record is really emotional and feels almost autobiographical. It’s the most personal body of work Liam ever wrote and recorded.
They told The Sun: ‘People who have heard it say that, lyrically, it is on par with some of Lewis Capaldi’s work, but that sonically it’s upbeat’.
Daily Mail have contacted Capitol Records for comment.
Liam had been outspoken about his struggles and how the global fame of One Direction affected his relationship with drugs and alcohol, once admitting: ‘I don’t know if I’ve hit rock bottom yet.’
Speaking to Stephen Bartlett on the Diary Of The CEO Podcast in 2021, Liam, admitted: ‘I was worried how far my rock bottom was going to be. Where’s rock bottom for me? And you would never have seen it. I’m very good at hiding it’.
‘I don’t even know if I have hit it yet. I can either make that choice now and pick my last moment as my rock bottom or I can make a whole new low.’
He admitted he had suffered for years with ‘social anxiety’ and ‘stress’ from being famous, and discussed the pressure his mental health was under while not having the freedom to go anywhere as a boyband member.
It comes after bandmate Louis Tomlinson admitted he will ‘never accept’ Liam’s tragic passing, following the first anniversary of his passing.
However despite his enthusiasm, and the release of his single Teardrops, bosses reportedly put the album on hold over concerns about the star’s mental health (pictured 2019)
It comes following the first anniversary of the One Direction star’s tragic death aged 31 after he fell from a third floor balcony in Buenos Aires on October 16, 2024 (pictured 2013)
In a new interview, Louis, 33, emotionally spoke about his friend and former bandmate’s passing.
He said: ‘I naively thought that, at this point, I’d unfortunately be a little bit more well versed with grief than other people my age.’
Louis lost his mother Joanna Deaken to leukaemia in 2016 and just three years later, his 18-year-old sister Félicité following an accidental overdose.
He continued to The Independent: ‘I thought that might mean something, but it didn’t at all. It’s something I’ll never really accept. I don’t think.’
Meanwhile Liam’s devastated sister Ruth appears to have taken a swipe at his ex girlfriend Kate Cassidy.
Just hours after his girlfriend Kate shared a video of her ‘last dance’ with the late star on the one-year anniversary of his death, as well as a picture of them together in bed, Liam’s sister Ruth took to social media with a pointed post.
And grief-stricken Ruth wrote on social media: ‘Everyone only seems interested in the public side of this, some sadly seem more interested in the fame they can gain off this, but on the human side people need to remember when they speak, there is a son without his Dad, parents without their child and I am lost without my brother.’
It comes after bandmate Louis Tomlinson (R) admitted he will ‘never accept’ Liam ‘s tragic passing, following the first anniversary of his passing (pictured together 2016)
Ruth, who shared a sweet family photo as well as a picture of Liam dressed as a pirate, said she has been ‘paralysed’ by the grief as she reflected on how ‘cruel’ life can be.
Ruth wrote in full: ‘1year, 12months, 52weeks, 365days… whichever way I say it, it still means the most heartbreaking truth that you’re not here any more.
‘When you used to go away on tour, and l’d cry that you’d be gone for a while, I always knew you’d come back, but now I can’t get you home, I can’t meet up with you somewhere in the world, I can’t facetime or text to see how you’re doing, it’s an eternal homesick feeling because we can’t go back.’
She continued: ‘I underestimated grief, woah did I underestimate it. I am paralysed by it daily. I thought I had felt it before but I know the losses before you were just intense sadness, you are the loss of my life, the one person who l will miss at every single occasion in my life.
‘I’d taken for granted that my little brother would be there through life, what a cruel lesson to learn in our 30s, that a sibling is not guaranteed to be a lifer, that I have to face this without you.’
Ruth said that Liam’s death ‘will never make sense’ to her and revealed that she has a ‘reoccurring nightmare’ reliving his final minutes in the hotel room.
