A hotel guest describes seeing Liam Payne in the moments leading up to his fatal fall from a third-floor balcony in Buenos Aires, speaking exclusively to ITV News. Brett Watson, from Chicago, was staying at the Casa Sur Palermo Hotel ahead of his wedding when he had "multiple encounters" with the One Direction singer, who was staying there as well. The 34-year-old said he and other guests witnessed Payne "causing a disturbance" shortly before the incident. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We were in the lobby just waiting for some people to arrive and that's when we had multiple encounters with Liam.
00:09Multiple times had come down to the lobby, was causing a disturbance,
00:13kept being escorted back up to his room.
00:16There was an incident where he was very frustrated and was smashing his laptop in the lobby and then
00:23the final time he came back down he actually passed out in the lobby of the hotel,
00:29started, looked like convulsing a little bit and had to be
00:33physically like taken back up to his room and that was about five minutes before
00:38the eventual incidents that
00:41happened. So I was in my hotel room,
00:45two floors below and directly below and saw the body
00:48fall through, looking out the window saw the body fall and obviously heard the aftermath and could see
00:56his body on the ground afterwards.
00:59It didn't seem real.
01:02You almost had to pinch yourself to
01:05understand and process what you were seeing, but it just was an out-of-body experience like surreal and
01:12Did you know it was him straight away?
01:15Not, so I had a suspicion just based on the state of mind and the condition he was in earlier.
01:22I
01:23didn't like know for sure, but that was my first thought. One of my
01:29friends, it was in the room right across the hall from him and heard very loud screaming, a lot of just
01:36almost primal noises, grunting, screaming coming from the hotel room. Heard an argument with his friend earlier in the day,
01:44but
01:45during the immediate fall, I didn't hear any noises.