Liam Payne reportedly had 'pink cocaine' in his system when he died

Liam Payne, the former One Direction singer, had multiple drugs in his system when he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, several local and international news outlets have reported.

An initial toxicology report revealed Payne, the British singer who die at age 31, had drugs in his system, including “pink cocaine,” ABC News reported Monday, citing sources. The recreational drug typically includes a combination of MDMA, ketamine and methamphetamine.

Broadcaster Todo Noticias and several other Argentine media outlets, as well as TMZ, also said the preliminary report found evidence of exposure to cocaine alongside traces of methamphetamines, ketamine and MDMA in his system, as well as benzodiazepines and crack cocaine. NBC News has not independently confirmed the reports.

Despite its name, law officials say, "pink cocaine" rarely has any cocaine in it, and the pink comes from food coloring.

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Bridget Brennan, the special narcotics prosecutor for New York City, said in an interview in August that pink cocaine contains a mixture of substances, as is “typical with a lot of the drugs out on the streets.”

The final toxicology report is not expected to be made public for some weeks, with no public confirmed date for release.

Payne’s team and local authorities did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the reports about the partial autopsy result.

Payne died shortly after a hotel receptionist called 911 to report that a distressed guest who was intoxicated with alcohol and drugs was “breaking the whole room.”

“The guest is in a room that has a balcony, and, well, we are a little afraid that he might do something life-threatening,” the caller said, according to audio obtained from local media by Telemundo, NBCUniversal’s Spanish-language network.

Argentina's emergency health service, Sistema de Atencion Medica de Emergencia, or SAME, confirmed to Telemundo that Payne fell from the balcony of his third-floor room at the hotel in the city’s Palermo district.

SAME director Alberto Crescenti told the Argentine TV station Todo Noticias TV that Payne was found dead a few minutes after the 911 call. 

An autopsy found that Payne had 25 injuries “compatible with those produced by a fall from height” and that his cause of death was “polytraumatism, internal and external hemorrhage,” the Argentina National Prosecutor’s Office said.

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Payne achieved global fame with the English Irish boy band One Direction.

Simon Cowell formed One Direction in 2010 after the teens all auditioned separately for "The X Factor," a British musical competition.

After it split up, Payne launched a solo career with his 2017 debut single, "Strip That Down," which reached No. 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Payne’s One Direction bandmates were “completely devastated” by his death, they said in a statement on the band’s Instagram account Thursday.

Afterward, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles and Zayn Malik offered their own tributes on Instagram, with Tomlinson and Malik saying they had lost a brother.