Daughter of San Antonio lawyer Thomas J. Henry told Liam Payne to stop calling her before his death
By Michael Karlis,
7 hours ago
Thomas J. Henry's daughter, Maya Henry (left), hugs One Direction singer Liam Payne for an engagement photo. Lawyers for the daughter of San Antonio personal injury attorney Thomas J. Henry issued a cease-and-desist letter to her ex-fiancé, One Direction singer Liam Payne, shortly before he fell to his death Wednesday from a hotel balcony.
Attorneys for 23-year-old social media influencer Maya Henry issued the letter last week after Payne allegedly made repeated attempts to connect with her, the Express-News reports . She aired accusations about Payne's unwanted attempts to contact her in an eight-minute long TikTok clip shared Oct. 6.
"It's always from different phone numbers, so I never know where it's going to come from," Maya Henry said of Payne. "He'll create new iCloud accounts to message me … also will email me."
Payne and Maya Henry began dating in 2019 and were engaged in August 2021. The engagement was called off and the two split for good in April 2022, according to MySA .
Payne reportedly fell to his death Wednesday from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
It remains unclear how or why Payne fell. However, local authorities report that Payne was possibly under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time, according to British paper The Daily Mail .
The Daily Mail reports that Payne's hotel room was "littered with white powder and tin foil" and that a TV screen in the hotel room had been smashed.
Payne was in Argentina to attend a concert by his former bandmate, Niall Horan.
In her recent TikTok video, Maya Henry maintained that Payne had contacted her mother during his recent attempts to connect.
"Does this seem like normal behavior to you?" Maya Henry said in the clip.
Maya Henry retained San Antonio attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna in the matter, according to the Express-News .
During an appearance on the "Internet is Dead" podcast two days before Payne's death, Maya Henry alleged the former One Direction member had joked about dying prematurely in previous conversations.
"He would always play with death and be like, 'Well, I'm going to die. I'm not doing well," she said during the episode.
Payne's death also comes months after Maya Henry released her novel Looking Forward. The book, published in May, is a fictional story "inspired by true events" about a model who falls in love with a boy-band singer.
In the novel, the singer forces his partner to get an abortion, an experience Henry said was true in her own life, according to the Express-News .
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