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Liam Payne was advised by his psychiatrist just weeks before his death ... he needed a "higher level of care" than she could provide.

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00:00Welcome back to TMZ live. There is new information we have in the death of

00:05Liam Payne and this is sad and alarming. So in September of this year, a month

00:13before he fell off that balcony in Argentina, his psychiatrist dropped him.

00:19That's a really unusual thing. She dropped him and this by the way is based

00:26on court records that have been filed with an Argentinian court in connection

00:31with the prosecution of five people that they're saying are somehow responsible

00:37for Liam's death. In this letter, the psychiatrist says he needs a higher

00:45level of care than she could offer and she is a psychiatrist. Remember there's a

00:51marriage and family counselor, then there's a psychologist, and then there's

00:56a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists are doctors and yet she couldn't provide the intense

01:03care that she said he needed. Yeah I don't think there's any responsibility

01:08on her though. I think everyone should be able to quit. She obviously saw some

01:11concerning signs and felt like she couldn't handle him and help him.

01:15I agree with you and I don't think it's about blame on her. It just shows the

01:19intensity of his addiction and she also said, look, she said he needs somebody to

01:27really handle the addiction and depression that he's going through. So

01:33you just feel the alarm and hear the alarm bells going off a month before

01:39this tragedy happened. Yeah Harvey, the language that was in the letter

01:44really is alarming. She says you need to speak with somebody else about

01:47to process your depression and trauma. So big words right from the psychiatric

01:53community. To say that you're suffering from trauma means that you and she can't

01:57help him means that he obviously is suffering from things that are

02:00tremendously difficult even for somebody at the top of her profession to be able

02:05to deal with. What this makes me think is this is going to help the five people

02:10who have been charged because what they're going to say is his addiction

02:14was so severe even a psychiatrist couldn't handle it and to prosecute

02:21particularly his good friend Roger Norris for not watching over him adequately

02:28when a psychiatrist couldn't do it, how could he? And I think that's going to be

02:33the argument. This all resolves back to the point that we've been making all along

02:36which is ultimately the single person most to blame for Liam Payne's death is

02:40Liam Payne himself and it's obviously tragic and there's always a desire to

02:43blame other people but ultimately it rests with him. I agree that he needs to

02:47take responsibility and you don't just ruin other lives because you want to

02:51blame people and go after people. You know to me if there's any body

02:56responsible it's not a human being it's the hotel because when they picked him

03:01up in the lobby and they threw him in his room and left him alone and then

03:07called 911 and said we're actually worried that he might go off that

03:13balcony and kill himself they said it in the 911 call and yet nobody went

03:19inside to watch him until an ambulance could get there to help him. If there's

03:25any culpability it seems to me it's in the hotel and the hotel wasn't charged

03:30employees of the hotel were charged and I agree with you. It just feels it feels

03:37like they're looking for somebody to blame.

03:39Hi I'm Tata Murrow I'm from High Point, North Carolina and I feel like it was

03:46very unfair to Liam Payne for what he was going through. He was obviously going

03:52through a lot of depression, a lot of mental problems and I feel like his

03:59psychiatrist could have really helped him through that instead of dropping him

04:02as a patient or tried to find a better way to help him. Unless she just couldn't

04:08unless she tried and couldn't I mean and that's the other thing that it's not

04:12I want to give her enough grace to say it's not just somebody who said oh it's

04:16not my problem anymore it just could be it was just too severe for her to handle.

04:21And I don't think celebrities get you know a higher level of care than anyone

04:25else there's a lot of people going through difficulties and they don't have

04:28you know that the criminal justice system doesn't go after all their

04:31friends and employees and psychologists. It's absolutely true.

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