A waiter who was arrested in the wake of Liam Payne's tragic death has broken his silence about the star's alleged secret Instagram account.
Payne died on October 16 at the age of 31 after having fallen from a third-floor balcony of the hotel he was staying at in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The One Direction singer was found with a fatal head injury that caused "internal and external hemorrhaging", and an autopsy report stated that he would not have been fully conscious at the time of his fall.
A toxicology test carried out after his death also showed he had traces of "alcohol, cocaine, and prescription antidepressants" in his system in the 72 hours before he died.
Three people were arrested and charged in connection to the singer's tragic death, following a significant raid on the CasaSur Hotel on October 23, where they seized crucial evidence including computer hard drives and hotel camera footage, a government official disclosed to AP.
ABC News Worldwide and Argentine media outlet La Nacion reported that two hotel employees and an Argentine businessman - a reported acquaintance of Payne - were arrested.
According to a statement from the office of prosecutor Andres Esteban Madrea, reported by Sky News, the arrested individuals face charges of "abandonment of a person followed by death, supply, and facilitation of narcotics".
One of the men arrested, 24-year-old Argentinian waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz, has now spoken out and shared an unseen photo of Payne.
He claims they met for the first time at the restaurant where he worked and told journalist Guillermo Panizza on Argentinian TV on Saturday that Payne had communicated with him using a secret Instagram account.
Paiz claimed that after he met Payne, who'd dined in the restaurant with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy, who left two days before the singer died, the pair swapped details and hung out together.
He claimed that he never supplied the singer with any drugs, telling the journalist (as reported by the Mirror): "I never supplied Liam with drugs. Liam’s first contact with me was at my place of work. We swapped details and saw each other later that night. It was all normal. He came down from his hotel room to fetch me because I had got lost."
Paiz added that Payne showed him some of the music he was going to release, and alleged that when the singer arrived at the restaurant he "was already under the effects of drugs and he didn’t actually eat anything."
He claimed that the second time he met the One Direction star, they spent the evening together, where Payne allegedly took cocaine while Paiz smoked marijuana.
Paiz alleged: "We took drugs together, but I never took drugs to him or accepted any money."
He revealed that his home has been searched but claimed he has yet to be questioned by investigators.
Paiz also denied knowing who the other two suspects who were arrested and charged are.
The waiter claimed that the photos that were released of Payne's hotel room after his death did not "[make] any sense" to him, as he allegedly saw the Dove soap packet when he visited but "couldn’t understand what it was for or the candles or the glass of water.”
Payne's body had been held in Argentina pending an autopsy and toxicology tests and has now been released to his family to be repatriated to the UK, where his funeral will take place.
The investigation into the circumstances of his death is still ongoing.