A number of followers of Liam Payne’s profession met him in Buenos Aires within the weeks previous his tragic and sudden loss of life at age 31.

“I met him on September thirtieth on the lodge’s door. I imply, I used to be passing by,” Noelia Verón, who has been a fan of Payne’s profession since she was a teen, solely recalled to Us Weekly on Friday, October 18. “I waited there for some time to take an image of him as a result of I couldn’t consider it. He got here nearer to the followers, he took photos.”

Verón, 29, added, “We shared a second. In my case I [jokingly] instructed him that I had escaped from the [school building]; I had deserted the category and he made a joke about it, like, ‘I couldn’t consider it’ [and asked] what sort of class I used to be doing, what I used to be learning.”

In accordance with Verón, her expertise with the One Route alum was “fairly cool.”

“He seemed good,” she mentioned. “The connection with the followers was distinctive. He took the time to greet every one in every of them, to take an image, to be there, to share. He lived all of it with a variety of emotion, every part that occurred on that September thirtieth.”

Payne and girlfriend Kate Cassidy visited Argentina all through September and October, throughout which they even caught his former bandmate Niall Horan’s solo live performance. Information broke on Wednesday, October 16, that Payne fell to his loss of life from a third-floor lodge balcony. He had suffered a number of critical accidents, together with “inside and exterior hemorrhage.” (Cassidy left city a number of days earlier, based on a social media video.)

Fellow fan Luana Matzkin additionally bumped into Payne earlier this month whereas out along with her sister.

“It was loopy. We arrived working, figuring out that he was presumably going to depart at the moment,” Matzkin recalled to Us in a separate dialog on Friday. “I used to be there taking photos and I used to be already shaking since I noticed him from afar. It was loopy to have him up shut.”

She added that the singer appeared “very comfortable” to her. “He stayed for an hour or extra taking photos with all of the followers who have been there.”

Matzkin added that there have been “greater than 100” followers ready to fulfill Payne, who made positive to greet everybody.

“He stayed taking photos with everybody, listening to everybody, hugging them,” she instructed Us. “He was very comfortable, he was laughing, he talked to his girlfriend, he talked to his pal. They have been simply ready to go to dinner later and he was nonetheless taking photos.”

For Matzkin, it was “a dream” to fulfill Payne in particular person.

“For me, he’s an angel, an unbelievable particular person,” she gushed. “As somewhat lady, it was at all times one thing unattainable, one thing that I might solely take into consideration. And I at all times thought, ‘If I meet him, what can I inform him?’ …  I couldn’t inform him something. I requested him to signal an autograph, however I couldn’t inform him something about every part I had thought.”

After each Verón and Matzkin heard about Payne’s loss of life, they traveled to the CasaSur Palermo Lodge the place he died.

“In fact, I knew it was actual, [but] it’s just like the world fell to me, the particular person I had been for greater than 10 years is now not there,” Matzkin mirrored on Friday.

Matzkin and her sister, Kiara, have been pushed to the lodge by their mom, Romina Mohadeb, who mentioned Payne’s loss of life was “a vital loss for them.”

“It’s their childhood, it’s a part of their life, it’s their ardour,” Mohadeb instructed Us.

Payne is survived by his dad and mom, two older sisters and 7-year-old son Bear, whom he shared with ex Cheryl Cole. Payne’s father, Geoff, traveled to Argentina on Friday alongside former One Route tour supervisor Paul Higgins.

With reporting by Luciana Arias