Before his fatal fall from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires last year, Liam Payne was about as intoxicated as a person can be without losing consciousness, according to a report released by prosecutors.

The amount of alcohol in Liam Payne's bloodstream at the time of his death largely exceeded the threshold considered potentially lethal, an Argentine prosecutor's office said. Concretely, Payne had 2.

Payne died on Oct. 16, 2024, after falling off the balcony of his third-story room at Casa Sur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was 31.