English singer Boy George has revealed he regrets comments he made on social media about Liam Payne just days before the former One Direction member died aged 31.

The Culture Club frontman admitted to making a remark that “wasn’t very nice” about Payne, who was buried in a private funeral service on Wednesday (November 20), about a month after his death in Buenos Aires.

“In the case of Liam Payne, I had been watching him a few days before it happened,” he admitted in the series finale. High performance podcast. “I remember looking online and I actually put a message under a post saying ‘He’s crazy,’ which wasn’t very nice, but I felt it. I felt like he was out of control.

Upon hearing the tragic news of Payne’s fatal fall from a hotel balcony on October 16, Boy George said it brought back memories of Amy Winehouse’s untimely death at the age of 27 in 2011.

“When it happened, it hit me, in the same way that Amy Winehouse hit me, because it seemed so insane to me,” he told hosts Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes. “I was literally like, ‘No, this isn’t real.’ I couldn’t accept it.

In the podcast episode, which aired the same day as Payne’s funeral, the 63-year-old Karma Chameleon The singer said he cared about Payne’s family and saw his father publicly mourn her death – calling it “heartbreaking”.

“I had tears in my eyes,” Boy George said. “I actually felt really, really sad.”

The British musicians previously fell out in 2013 after Boy George accused Payne on social media of snubbing his 13-year-old niece at the BRIT Awards. –New York Daily News/Tribune News Service