Liam Payne’s ex fiancée Maya Henry has returned to social media following the One Direction star’s death.
The model, 23, was in the process of taking legal action against Payne when he died at the age of 31 after falling from his Buenos Aires hotel balcony.
Before his death, Henry issued a cease and desist letter to Payne and made accusations that he has been ceaselessly contacting her, using different iCloud accounts to continue to reach out.
The accusations were made days before it was announced that the singer fell from a balcony and died in Argentina.
After being targeted by vile trolls on social media unfairly blaming her for Payne’s death, Maya has made a return to Instagram.
She posted four photos from her Thanksgiving celebration, showing a spread of pies and various trays of food, and two dogs.
She captioned the post with: ‘Happy Thanksgiving. Thankful for my family, friends, and God.’
The couple were on-and-off again for three years before calling it quits in 2022.
Following Payne’s death, representatives for Henry told the Daily Mail that the model ‘is understandably in shock.’
Henry spoke out about the alleged harassment on TikTok a week before Payne’s death, telling her 650k followers: ‘Ever since we broke up he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone, it’s always from different phone numbers too, so I never know where it’s gonna come from.
‘He’ll create new iCloud accounts to message me – it’s always a new damn iCloud account. Every time I see one pop up on my phone I’m like, “here we f***ing go again.”
‘Also, he will email me… not only me, but he’ll blow up my mom’s phone. Is this normal behaviour to you?’
Lawyers for Henry told Metro at the time: ‘Maya Henry issued a cease and desist last week to Liam Payne following the emergence of new and concerning information.
‘She has retained attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna to represent her. At this time, that is her only comment on the matter.’
Since their 2022 split, Payne had been dating Kate Cassidy – who revealed the pair had planned on getting engaged before his death – while Henry was working on her novel Looking Forward, about dating a popstar.
On TikTok James also claimed ‘everything gets swept under the rug’ and ‘hidden’ for Payne, who she accused of ‘preying’ on One Direction fans because they’re ‘loyal to him’.
After getting engaged in 2020, Payne and Henry called off the engagement in 2021, staying together for nearly a year after.
Payne spoke about the decision to call of the engagement on Stephen Bartlett’s Diary Of A CEO podcast later in 2021.
‘I feel like more than anything at this point, I’m more disappointed in myself that I keep on hurting people,’ he said.
‘That annoys me. I’ve just not been very good at relationships. And I know what my pattern of things is with relationships at this point.
‘I’m just not very good at them so I just need to work on myself before I put myself on to somebody else.’
He added: ‘That’s where I got to in my last relationship. I just wasn’t giving a very good version of me anymore, that I didn’t appreciate and I didn’t like being. I can honestly say I feel better out of it.
‘I didn’t feel good doing what I did but it had to happen. Just a corny way to say it was the best for us both.’
Liam Payne’s ex fiancée Maya Henry returns to social media after vicious trolling
