Liam Payne’s ex-fiancée, Maya Henry, eerily wrote a dangerous balcony scene in her roman à clef, “Looking Forward,” which was released months before the singer’s tragic death . The novel — which was “inspired by true events” — follows the stormy relationship between high-fashion model Mallory Hunt and Oliver Smith, a British former member of the boy band 5Forward. At one point in the book, Mallory visits Oliver, who is acting erratically due to drugs and ferociously hitting himself “again and again, working himself into a frenzy.
” Mallory begs Oliver to stop hurting himself, but “before I can even touch him, he’s on his feet,” Henry writes. “He looks at me for a split second, then turns on his heels and races straight for — Oh no. F–k.
The balcony.” Oliver yells that he’s “gonna f–king kill myself ..
. I want to die.” The fictional circumstances are eerily prescient of Payne’s death.
However, in Henry’s book, it’s her character, Mallory, who falls off the balcony and is thankfully unharmed. The former One Direction band member fractured his skull and died at age 31 after falling from a balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires Wednesday. According to photos verified by Argentina’s biggest newspaper, La Nacion, the singer’s room was in shambles with a smashed television and drug paraphernalia scattered around.
Pablo Policicchio, a spokesperson for the Security Ministry of the Buenos Aires municipality, told the .