Exclusive | Liam Payne begged Kate Cassidy not to leave Argentina before he died, was moody about her going: friend

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne “begged” his girlfriend to stay in Argentina before his fatal hotel room plunge — and was “moody” when she left him, according to one of her close friends, who said “she’s devastated” over his sudden death.Payne was “very unhappy” that his New Jersey-born influencer gal pal, Kate Cassidy, wanted to return home to see her dog after traveling with him for weeks, the friend told The Post exclusively.“Liam didn’t want Kate to leave Argentina.He wanted her to stay.

She says he begged her to stay.It was actually a little more heated than you’d think,” said the pal, who asked not to be named.“He didn’t know why she would leave him, but she wanted to be home with her dog.

He didn’t like that at all.He was really moody about it.”Cassidy flew back to Florida four days before the troubled former boy band heartthrob plummeted to his death Wednesday from the balcony of the CasaSur hotel in Buenos Aires — because the trip was only supposed to last five days.“She had been there for a long time and wanted to come home, and he gave her no indication of when he’d be ready to leave.

So she took things into her own hands and got herself a ticket to go home,” the friend said.“He was really unhappy about that.

He made sure she knew that.”The couple, which had been together for two years,  “weren’t having trouble” otherwise, the friend said.But the 31-year-old pop star partied with two prostitutes — and had a tense argument with one of them over payment — at the hotel just hours before his fatal fall, local officials said.“She just has heard about the prostitutes.She knew nothing about that.

She just said she has to wrap her mind around it,” Cassidy’s friend said.“That’s obviously a huge betrayal to her, and that hurts a lot.She hasn’t stopped crying.

She’s devastated.She’s got a good support system around her, but this just went from bad to worse.

She’s not OK,” s...