Justin Hawkins has responded to backlash over his past remarks about the late Liam Payne, stating he hasn’t “changed his views.”The Darkness frontman had previously criticised Payne, calling him “arrogant” for his erratic behavior in a video posted in March 2023.
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00:00I don't think anybody, I didn't see that Liam situation coming. I mean I didn't
00:06pay enough attention to his career to recognize that they were signs of, I
00:10don't know, how would you call it, like of, you know, mental instability. I just
00:17thought it was like somebody, definitely somebody who wasn't coping with fame or
00:22was trying to put, big themselves up or come across as something that was a
00:25little bit inauthentic and that's what I was highlighting really. I don't think I
00:29actually said it, I think it really was just like watching some videos where
00:35he was obviously behaving like a bellend, you know, as simple as that. And there's
00:40videos of just about every artist in the world who at a low ebb or on a bad day
00:45where they get interviewed and they make themselves seem like pricks. It just
00:48seems to be more of them of Liam at my disposal for that particular episode. But
00:53I didn't take it down, I mean the reason why I didn't take it down is because
00:55that would be like, why would I do that, you know, why would I pretend I hadn't
01:01observed those things, you know. It's really sad what happened to him but at
01:08the end of the day it's not going to change my view on that, those specific
01:12behaviors. You know, everybody's complex, there's layers to this and laughing at
01:20some stuff that's laughable, that's what I do and that's what I'll always do. So
01:25there you go.