Talking in 2017, throughout an interview with Australian radio hosts Kyle and Jackie O on KIIS FM, Payne stated: “I went over to talk to him and Jay-Z, and as I shook his hand, he simply chuckled… essentially the most evil chuckle that I’ve ever heard.
“So I am just a little bit frightened of that man.”
Payne later defined he felt “nervous” approaching Diddy on the social gathering, as a result of he was additionally standing subsequent to Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
However out of the three showbiz giants, he opted to strategy Diddy.
He stated: “It was like essentially the most daunting celeb expertise that you might ever think about.
“I believed P Diddy was a protected guess. Clearly I missed the mark just a little bit.”
Payne plunged to his dying from a 130Ft lodge balcony in Buenos Aires, the place he’d been staying to look at his ex-One Path bandmate Niall Horan carry out in live performance.
Earlier than his dying, Payne had been performing erratically within the lodge lobby and smashed his laptop computer.
He needed to be carried again into his room, in keeping with native media.
Workers made a panicked name to police reporting a “man aggressive man who might have been beneath the results of medicine and alcohol.”
Pictures taken from inside Payne’s lodge room displaying a smashed TV display screen, screwed up burnt aluminium foil in a bath, plus white powder and different drug paraphernalia scattered over a wood floor, have since gone viral.
In the meantime, Diddy has defiantly claimed “the reality will prevail” after being hit with extra lawsuits – together with one declare alleging the music mogul molested a 16-year-old boy.
The 54-year-old rapper, through his attorneys, launched an announcement claiming the most recent allegations towards him had been a “publicity seize” and reiterated his innocence.
“In courtroom, the reality will prevail: that Mr Combs has by no means sexually assaulted anybody — grownup or minor, man or girl.”
Diddy is curently being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart with out bail, following a number of accusations of sexual assault and rape.
His trial date has been set for Could 5 subsequent yr, the identical day at Vogue journal’s annual MET Gala, which Diddy has attended previously.
The rapper was uninvited to this yr’s Gala amid his federal investigation.