In typical TMZ fashion, the outlet pushes the boundaries of invasive journalism by making a documentary on Liam Payne's death, only a couple of months after the harrowing and sudden incident.
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TMZ Presents: Liam Payne: Who's To Blame? aired yesterday on FOX, where they interviewed a witness who saw him fall from his room. Bret Watson, who's spoken before to ITV about what he saw, was questioned again by TMZ. His account is still just as emotional as the event is "burned" inside his head.
Watson was planning his wedding on the first floor of the CasaSur Palermo hotel. He was discussing his wedding with the planner and happened to be looking out of the window the moment Payne tragically fell out of his window, "We saw Liam fall."
"We immediately rushed out on the balcony to see what it was," he continued his account, "and when we looked down, we could see that it was Liam laying on the ground."
He said that Liam "landed face-up, so [he] could tell right away" who it was. "He was motionless."
"I don't have a medical background, but from what I saw, it looked like he passed away immediately, on impact," he said.
Witness Described How Fe Felt Seeing Liam Payne Fall To His Tragic Death
Watson then went over how it impacted him, seeing something so shocking.
"Time sort of stopped, or really slowed down," he said. "Afterwards, the wedding planner, myself, just looked at each other, just to see like, 'Oh my God this is real. This actually happened.'"
The witness was still emotional about the matter. He said it was "heartbreaking" to see anyone fall like that. One of the worst things seemed to be hearing the impact, however.
Watson said that hearing the impact on the ground was "more haunting than seeing him fall."
"It's something that is burned into my brain, and something I'm never gonna forget."
"I'm still working through just trying to process and understand everything that we saw," he concluded.
Although the ethical basis of TMZ's documentary is being questioned and slammed online, Watson's account of events is harrowing.
