Liam Payne Death Probe SHOCKING NEW DETAILS

In the weeks after his death, loved ones try to make sense of what happened to the singer and who may be to blame

In his final days, Liam Payne was making big plans for the future. "A few weeks ago, we sat outside on a beautiful evening manifesting our lives together," his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, wrote on Instagram on Oct. 23, along with a picture of a note he had written. It read: "Me and Kate to marry within a year/engaged & together forever."

It's one of many heartbreaking, untold secrets his friends and family are sharing in the wake of his tragic death at 31 on Oct. 16. "Most of the people close to Liam knew about his addiction and mental health struggles, but they want to remind people of his goodness, as well," a source says of the former One Direction singer, who died after falling 40 feet from the balcony of his room at the Hotel CasaSur Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since then, chilling new details like the drugs that were in his system, the mystery women who were with him in his last hours, and the unexplained deletion of an official statement - "seem to emerge almost every day," adds the source. "He was living a devastating double life, but there are still so many unanswered questions - and his loved ones want the real story."

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