Several reports suggest that Liam Payne was drugged up just hours before his tragic death on October 16. Alleged images of his dishevelled hotel room also point in that direction, with a focus on drug paraphernalia scattered around among other things like a smashed television. Tributes for Liam Payne are seen next to the phonebox in the Hard Rock Cafe in Piccadilly Circus in London, which was used on a One Direction album cover, on Friday Oct. 18, 2024. (AP) Per a new report published by PEOPLE, their source in the prosecutor’s office privy to the ongoing investigation connected to the One Direction singer’s death has also weighed in on the possibility of how the pop star got his hands on substances. Their inside knowledge insinuated that a hotel employee may have played a role in sourcing the drugs for the 31-year-old music star in the hours leading up to his fatal fall from the third-floor hotel room at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. “There appears to be evidence that a hotel …