Liam Payne's pal Roger Nores is still wrapping his head around being cleared of manslaughter charges tied to the singer's tragic drug-fueled death -- and the main thing he wants now is an apology from Liam’s dad, Geoff.
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00:00I'm feeling great. Honestly, this is like, um, this is great news and, and same as you
00:07and you know, cause we've been having these conversations all along and I was pretty confident
00:11that this was going to be yourself. Like timing is something that you never know, but obviously,
00:16um, once everything is over, um, yeah, you feel like relieved and you feel like you're
00:22like a person again, you can only do so much right as a friend, as, as a work colleague
00:27in their case or, and, and, and then when this is something like this happens, which
00:31is a full on tragedy, you feel responsible. Right? So, so that's why I can totally understand
00:38why Jeff, right? Like Liam's father, the minute this like, like, um, happened, it's like he
00:45came down to Argentina and he was, you can imagine he was so hurt, right? He had lost
00:49his son so that like, I don't have any children, but people say that's the worst thing that
00:53can happen to you in life. And so, so obviously he was hurt. And when you're hurt, like you,
00:59there's a part of you that feels responsible. Um, and when you feel responsible, you want
01:03to blame somebody, right? So it's a really human, um, reaction that he had. And to be
01:08honest, we all feel responsible. I feel responsible. It's like when you've been trying to help
01:11somebody that you, that you love and you care for, like you can't help going like, Hey,
01:16what if, right? Maybe like even two days ago, I was walking down the street and I went like,
01:20I never said that to him. Maybe if I had had this conversation with Liam, he would
01:24have changed. Right. And, and the reality is, again, you can only do so much and you're
01:28that guilt that we all feel it's not, um, going to go away.
01:32You just said that you understand how Liam's father felt about this, because I was actually
01:38about to ask you that what the relate, how you feel about Roger's father, because really
01:43the father's the father is the reason that Roger was charged. He went and talked to the
01:48police and said, it's really understandable for a father. The minute something like this
01:55happens, it's like you feel so responsible, right? And you feel like your whole world
01:59is falling apart. Um, if I felt like this was a tragedy and I wasn't like, and I was
02:03really worried and I couldn't understand what was going on. Imagine jet probably a hundred
02:07times that. Um, so, so when you're going for that and you talk to a prosecutor in some
02:13like random country, like maybe you say things that are not true. Right. And obviously that
02:18led to him saying, Oh, Roger was a caretaker. There's a Roger responsibility and all this
02:22stuff that you guys already know. And that's what started the whole thing. I think now
02:28if something with this ruling, I'm really hoping that we can like wrap up everything
02:32and put everything behind. Cause a lot of them, I think most of them are really nice
02:37people and they're just dealing with something that is really, um, not normal.
02:42So do you hope to have a conversation with, um, with Liam's father at some point?
02:48Um, I've been, I've been trying to be honest. Like it's like, like the law citizen is like
02:52in the U S is going to stay until they apologize. Right. That's like, I already said it. Um,
02:57there's no, um, I'm not, I'm not after money at all. And, and any dollar would be donated
03:02to bear, right. So Liam's son. Um, but I do want them to apologize. Cause it's like, even
03:07though, like, I, I understand that those are really human, um, like reactions and again,
03:14completely understandable. And I would never, ever judge them, but it gets to a point where
03:18it's like, guys, okay, like you may have gone too far. So maybe it's better to just settle
03:23everything, wrap up like the whole thing and just go, you know what? Like maybe I shouldn't
03:27have said something and I'm sorry. And that's it. You're suing him for dad for defamation.
03:33It sounds like what you're saying is, give me a, give me an apology. And it goes away
03:37a hundred percent, a hundred percent. They know that, you know, and that was my position
03:40from day one. You lost a dear friend and you didn't get a chance. I had imagined to grieve
03:47it in the same way people normally would, because suddenly you were being charged, uh,
03:53with, uh, his death. So what has it been like for you over these last, uh, few months being
03:59there in Argentina? Obviously not being able to say goodbye to Liam and not even have like,
04:05I haven't even processed honestly, the fact that he's gone. And, um, what I would do is
04:09like here, I'm like a few blocks away from a hotel. So where I'm saying this apartment,
04:12so I would just go to this, like that tree where like, um, the fans put all the pictures
04:19and, and I would just like say hi to him every, every night. And just like, um, that would
04:23be my like way of like coping with the whole thing. And, and like any, like every, like
04:28anybody else, right? Like from time to time you will like get angry at him and go like
04:31Liam, what, what, what the fuck did you do? Right. Why are you not here? Like, um, and
04:36then, and then you would understand it's like, wait, this is just like a tragedy and, and,
04:41and things like this happen in life. So, but yeah, but yeah, I'm looking forward to like
04:44trying to understand and process my feelings without this whole thing around me.