Braian Nahuel Paiz recently broke his silence about about Liam Payne and his death, calling him “really sweet.”
The Argentine waiter is one of the three suspects charged in the investigation of the singer’s death, he is alleged to be Liam’s drug dealer.
The two other people also charged were a hotel employee who reportedly provided Liam with cocaine and a person said to be close to the performer.
The three suspects have been accused of supplying the One Direction star with drugs while he was in Argentina, staying at the CasaSur Palermo.
Braian opened up to journalist Guillermo Panizza on Telefe Noticias over the weekend and insisted on his innocence in Liam’s death.
He admitted the two did have two meetings before his death and that they did drugs together during the second meeting but claims he did not give him the narcotics or took money from him.
The 24-year-old also shared insight about their second meeting at the hotel Liam was staying at, the drugs they did and gushed about Liam to the local Argentine TV program.
“I consumed marijuana and Liam consumed cocaine, the cocaine that’s in all the photos that came out after his death,” Braian said “He was separating it and cleaning it before smoking it.
Braian Nahuel Paiz (Image: Collect)
“I didn’t say anything to him about it because he seemed normal to me. He wasn’t aggressive at all, he behaved really well with me, he was really sweet.
He asked me if I was okay,” he continued.
He claimed their first encounter was at his place of work, a upscale neighborhood of Puerto Madero.
Braian insisted that while they did drugs together, he “never took drugs to him or accepted any money.”
“I have messages where he’s offering me money because he was apparently used to offering money for everything but I never accepted anything,” he elaborated.
“When I left he wanted to give me some clothes so that I had a memory of being with him but I left it behind the TV because I didn’t want to take it. It was some grey jogging bottoms and a T-shirt.” Brian added.
Liam was staying at the CasaSur Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when he plunged to his death from his third floor balcony on October 16. The 31-year-old died from “multiple traumatic injuries” and “internal and external bleeding.”
National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 14 confirmed in a press release that he had drugs in his system before his death. They said he had had traces of “alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant” in his body.
