Sharon Osbourne: Who I Blame For Liam Payne

Sharon Osbourne recently held the music industry responsible for Liam Payne’s tragic death.

Payne tragically passed away after falling from his third-floor room at CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday. He was 31. The former boy band member suffered multiple traumas which led to internal and external bleeding, the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office told Page Six of its preliminary autopsy report Thursday.

Sharon Osbourne talks about Liam Payne

Sharon took to her Instagram account on Thursday to mourn Payne’s loss and called out her fellow music moguls for turning their back on the struggling singer.

“Liam, my heart aches. We all let you down,” Osbourne wrote in a heart-wrenching statement Thursday.

“Where was this industry when you needed them?” she asked.

Osbourne also noted that Payne was so young when he joined One Direction in 2010 and quickly sky-rocketed to fame.

“You were just a kid when you entered one of the toughest industries in the world,” she said, asking, “Who was in your corner?”

The TV personality concluded her post by writing, “Rest in peace my friend @liampayne.”

Fans flooded the comments section of Osbourne’s post to applaud her honesty about the cut-throat industry.

Osbourne was a judge in the singing competition show from 2004 to 2007 and made her return in 2013 and again from 2016 to 2017. However, she was not a judge during the year that Payne first auditioned in the series in 2008 or when he and his former bandmates — Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik formed One Direction and competed in 2010.

The group came in third place and quickly gained fame worldwide. During his time in the band, Payne admitted that he struggled with mental health issues and drug and alcohol addiction, though he entered rehab and was sober for 100 days in 2023. The band eventually broke up in 2016 and distanced themselves from each other while pursuing solo careers.

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