Liam Payne's ex Maya Henry 'in shock' over his death amid their legal battle

The model only found out when a member of her team was contacted by a reporter after Liam fell from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel shortly after 5pm on Wednesday.

Liam Payne's ex Maya Henry is "in shock"' over the singer's death amid their legal battle. The model only found out when a member of her team was contacted by a reporter after Liam fell from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel shortly after 5pm on Wednesday.

A source close to Henry has told DailyMail.com: "Right now she is obviously in shock." Just days ago the Texan model, 23, instructed lawyers to issue a cease and desist letter to the pop star after accusing him of repeatedly contacting her.

She has also accused the Payne of contacting her friends and playing on the loyalty of die-hard One Direction fans across social media. Henry - the daughter of multi-millionaire personal-injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry - claimed he has gone to extraordinary lengths in an attempt to contact her.

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"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," she said. "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 behavior to you?" Henry has been promoting her debut novel, Looking Forward - an art-imitating-life romance about a girl who falls in love with a pop star

Maya said: "Some of the things that are fictionalised in the book are obviously the name changes, some of the cities are different like I say I'm from Tennessee in the book when I'm from Texas." She said: "Then also for example another big point was that people were like this can't be about Liam because when I was talking about the abortion he said "oh I'm not ready for a kid", because he is already a father.'

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"And in real life that's obviously not the case, but for privacy reasons I just wanted to leave stuff like that out of the book and just tell my story so that's kind of why it is fiction. Because if you do something that's nonfiction everything has to be fiction everything has to be so factual and you can't leave anything out."