Nicole Scherzinger was a part of Liam Payne’s career rise and now she’s paying tribute to him. Payne died recently after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was 31. The group that made him famous, One Direction, was formed on the UK reality competition show “The X Factor,” while Scherzinger was a judge.

Popular 76-year-old composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has recently disclosed that former X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger was in contact through texts with late One Direction singer Liam Payne before his death.