Simon Cowell ‘cried uncontrollably’ when Liam Payne died but wasn’t to blame for One Direction star’s death because ‘he was a grown man and you can’t bubble wrap everyone’

Simon Cowell is said to have ‘sobbed’ uncontrollably after being told of Liam Payne’s death aged 31.

The X Factor mogul’s best friend Sinitta, 61, detailed how Simon, 65, reacted to Liam’s passing in October, when the One Direction star fell to his death from the third floor balcony of his hotel in Buenos Aires.