Nicole Scherzinger was always in Liam Payne 's corner. In fact, Nicole was texting with the late One Direction alum on the day that he died, as revealed by Andrew Lloyd Webber , who composed the music for the Broadway musical Sunset Blvd. , which stars the Pussycat Dolls alum.
"I suppose something that hasn’t been said, and I suppose I could say, is that of course she mentored Liam, from One Direction," Andrew said in a Billboard interview published Oct. 24. "On the Wednesday when he died, she was still texting him that day.
" And after learning of the 31-year-old's passing on the evening of Oct. 16, Nicole—who met Liam while working as a judge on The X Factor U.K .
, where One Direction was created—still showed up to perform as Norma Desmond in the Broadway production. "She’d just heard that he died," Andrew continued, "and the fact that she even did the show at all is extraordinary. I mean, she is an amazing, amazing woman.
She is without any question one of the finest performers I’ve ever worked with." He added, "One thing about Nicole is that once she’s committed to something, she is the most incredible company member and leader of any performer I know." When it comes to the members of One Direction, Nicole wasn't just a longtime supporter of Liam, who died of "multiple traumas" and "internal and external hemorrhage" following a fatal three-story fall from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina , according to his autopsy.
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