Liam Payne’s ex Maya Henry accused him of obsessive contact, lawyer issued cease and desist before his death: ‘Is that normal behavior to you?’
Liam Payne’s ex-fiancée Maya Henry accused the former One Direction star of “weaponizing” his fans against her just days before he died Wednesday.
In a cease-and-desist letter sent to the singer by Henry’s lawyers, the model, 23, accused Payne of repeatedly contacting her and obsessively contacting her friends and family, the Daily Mail reported Monday.
“Maya Henry issued a cease and desist last week to Liam Payne following the emergence of new and concerning information,” Henry’s lawyers told the Daily Mail.
The pair dated on and off for four years starting in 2018. They got engaged in 2020, ended the engagement a year later and called it quits for good in 2022.
In a TikTok video posted Oct. 6, Henry shared alarming details about Payne’s alleged behavior.
“Ever since we broke up, he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone, it’s always from different phone numbers too, so I never know where it’s gonna come from,” Henry said.
“He’ll create new iCloud accounts to message me — it’s always a new damn iCloud account. Every time I see one pop up on my phone I’m like, ‘Here we f–king go again.'”
Henry added, “Also, he will email me … Not only me, but he’ll blow up my mom’s phone. Is this normal behavior to you?”
She continued, “He’s the one that is constantly doing weird s–t. And also, might I add, he literally said the reason he has all these people on his damn Snapchat — which he has had for years apparently, and messages [his followers] — is he preys on One Direction fans because they’re loyal to him.”
Shortly after Henry and Payne ended their engagement, Payne said he was at fault for the breakdown in their relationship.
“I feel like more than anything at this point, I’m more disappointed in myself that I keep on hurting people,” Payne said on Steven Bartlett’s “Diary of a CEO” podcast in 2021.
“That annoys me,” the singer went on. “I’ve just not been very good at relationships. And I know what my pattern of things is with relationships at this point.”
He continued, “That’s where I got to in my last relationship. I just wasn’t giving a very good version of me anymore, that I didn’t appreciate and I didn’t like being. I can honestly say I feel better out of it.
“I didn’t feel good doing what I did but it had to happen,” Payne said of deciding not to marry. “Just a corny way to say it was the best for us both.”
Payne died on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He reportedly fell from a balcony of the CasaSur Palermo hotel, where he was staying. He was 31.
According to TMZ, the star was acting “erratic” earlier in the day and allegedly smashed his laptop in the hotel lobby.
He had been active on social media that day, posting photos and videos on Snapchat, though it’s unclear when the images were taken.
Payne rose to fame as a founding member of One Direction, formed in 2010 with Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles. Malik left the boy band in 2015 to pursue a solo career, and the group went on an indefinite hiatus the following year.