An Argentinian waiter accused of supplying drugs to Liam Payne has spoken out for the first time since the singer’s tragic death.
Braian Nahuel Paiz, who has been identified by Argentinian police in an ongoing investigation, insisted there has been no wrongdoing on his part in relation to the One Direction crooner’s sudden death on Oct. 16.
Paiz, 24, admitted to having two hotel meetings with the “Story of My Life” singer, 31, before he plunged to his death from his hotel room in Buenos Aires.
While he admitted to taking drugs with Payne at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, Paiz insists he never supplied the late singer with narcotics, or received any money from him.
“We took drugs together but I never took drugs to him or accepted any money,” Paiz told local news outlet Telefe Noticias Saturday.
“I have messages where he’s offering me money because he was apparently used to offering money for everything but I never accepted anything.”
Paiz said the pair arranged to meet up after an initial encounter two weeks prior.
“I never supplied Liam with drugs,” he said. “Liam’s first contact with me was at my place of work.”
“We swapped details and saw each other later that night. It was all normal. He came down from his hotel room to fetch me because I had got lost,” he added.
Paiz said the pair “got together” at his hotel, before Payne “showed me some of the music he was going to bring out.”
“I’ve heard people saying he was taking drugs but the truth is that when he got to the restaurant where I was working he was already under the effects of drugs and he didn’t actually eat anything,” he continued.
“There was a moment when he approached me and asked me for my contact details. I gave him an Instagram and afterwards he sent me messages because he wanted to take drugs although he had already consumed narcotics.”
“It was October 2. While I was in his room we had some whisky shots,” he added.
Paiz continued, “Our second hotel meeting was on the night of Sunday October 13. We spent the night together, we consumed drugs because the truth is that something intimate happened.”
“He wasn’t aggressive at all, he behaved really well with me, he was really sweet. He asked me if I was okay,” he said, adding that he has text messages to show for it.
“When I left he wanted to give me some clothes so that I had a memory of being with him but I left it behind the TV because I didn’t want to take it. It was some grey jogging bottoms and a T-shirt,” he recalled.
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“I told Liam a best friend of mine wanted to meet him because he was a fan. He said ‘yes’ and after I went he appeared outside the place where I lived and managed to get halfway into the building and wanted us to go back to his hotel but I told him I couldn’t because I had to go to work.”
“I was due to start at 11.30 a.m. but I had to arrive beforehand. That was the last time I saw him. He got into his taxi and left,” he added.
The Post has reached out to Argentinian police and Payne’s estate for comment.
Paiz has reportedly been fired from his job as a result of the ongoing criminal probe. He is the second person to be formally linked to the singer’s death.
Local police have also named Rogelio ‘Roger’ Nores — Payne’s close friend — as one of the three people under investigation.
