Pop artist Liam Payne had various narcotics, including crack cocaine and methamphetamine, in his system when he jumped to his death from a hotel balcony in Argentina, according to preliminary toxicology findings quoted by US media on Monday.
The British musician and former member of One Direction died last week at the age of 31 after falling from a third-floor hotel room in Buenos Aires.
ABC News and TMZ said a cocktail of drugs called “pink cocaine” — containing methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA — had been found during a partial autopsy, citing anonymous sources familiar with the preliminary tests.
Crack cocaine and benzodiazepine were also listed.
An “improvised aluminum pipe to ingest drugs” was also found in the room, ABC reported.
Payne — who was found de.ad after staff called emergency services twice to report a guest “overwhelmed by drugs and alcohol” was “destroying” a hotel room — had spoken publicly about struggles with substance abuse and coping with fame from an early age.
Post-mortem results indicated that he was alone at the time of the fall and “was going through an episode of substance abuse,” prosecutors had previously said.
The singer suffered “multiple traumas” and “internal and external hemorrhaging,” they said.
