A fan of Liam Payne exclusively tells PEOPLE that she had a few interactions with him leading up to the One Direction member's death, and there was "nothing strange or unusual" about his behavior.

Liam Payne's death hit Gen Z and millennials particularly hard. That's because so many of us grew up with Payne and the British boyband One Direction.

After heartfelt tributes from Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and as a band, Harry Styles shared that he is “truly devastated” by the death of his One Direction bandmate Liam Payne. Payne died on Wednesday at the age of 31 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires.”