What REALLY Happened To Liam Payne After X Factor!

What REALLY Happened To Liam Payne After X Factor! Simon Cowell made a call that would change five teenagers' lives forever, but for one of them, that decision would eventually become his darkest burden. On July 23, 2010, when judge Nicole Scherzinger convinced Cowell to group together five failed solo contestants, she specifically pointed at Liam Payne's photo and said something chilling: "He could actually be the leader." What nobody knew was that this 16-year-old kid who had already been rejected by X Factor once before would carry the weight of that leadership role until his tragic death at age 31.