Boy George expressed remorse for making bad comments about Liam Payne before his untimely death.
On Wednesday, November 20th episode of the High-Performance podcast, the 63-year-old musician admitted that his remark about the One Direction alum, “wasn’t very nice.”
“I’d actually put a message under a post saying, ‘He’s off his nut,’ which wasn’t very nice, but I felt it. I felt like he was out of control,” George said on the show.
“And when [his death] happened, it just hit me. Same way that Amy Winehouse hit me just because it felt so senseless,” he said referring to the singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse’s death, who died in 2011 from accidental alcohol poisoning.
The musician reflected on the shocking moment when he got the news of Payne’s death.
“You know, I was up at 5 a.m. and it came up on the American news and I literally was like ‘What the f—. I was literally like ‘No this isn’t real.’ I couldn’t take it in and I think everybody felt like that,” George recalled.
“I watched the dad [Geoff Payne], and it was heartbreaking. I was quite tearful about it. I really very felt sad,” he added.
It is pertinent to mention that Liam Payne tragically passed away at the age of 31 after falling from a multistory building in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 16.
