Security footage shows Liam Payne may have fainted before falling off hotel balcony. Watch the Footage

Security footage shows Liam Payne may have fainted before falling off hotel balcony. Watch the Footage..

Argentine officials are in possession of security footage showing Liam Payne fainting before falling to his death from his hotel balcony, a local journalist claimed.

Paula Varela said on Buenos Aires-based TV station Canal 13’s show “Socios del Espectáculo” that the video backs up the theory that Payne was unconscious before he accidentally fell from the third story of CasaSur Palermo Hotel on Oct. 16.

There is footage that is not being released to the media with the balcony scene where you see that Liam faints and tragically, because of where he is, falls from that balcony,” she claimed (per the Mirror).

“If he had been beside his bed, he would have fallen on his bed. It’s not that he jumped deliberately. This footage is in the official case file,” Varela added.

Hotel staff found Payne dead at age 31 in the property’s courtyard just moments after he fell from the balcony of his room.

Buenos Aires authorities previously said in a statement to Page Six that “due to the position in which the body was left and the injuries from the fall, it is presumed that Payne did not adopt a reflex posture to protect himself and that he could have fallen while in a state of semi- or total unconsciousness.”