Pussycat Dolls alum Nicole Scherzinger was reportedly in contact with Liam Payne the day he died.

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber – who collaborated with Scherzinger on the Broadway musical ‘Sunset Blvd.’ – spoke about her relationship with the late One Direction singer during an interview with Billboard published Thursday.

“I guess something that hasn’t been said yet, and I could say, is that of course she mentored Liam, from One Direction,” Webber, 76, said. “On the Wednesday he died, she was still texting him that day.”

According to the British musician, Scherzinger, 46, heard the tragic news of Payne’s death shortly before she took the stage to perform in her lead role.

“She had just heard he died,” Webber said. “And the fact that she did the show at all is extraordinary. I mean, she’s a wonderful, wonderful woman.

“She is without a doubt one of the best artists I have ever worked with.”

Representatives for Scherzinger did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

Payne and Scherzinger’s relationship dates back to 2010, when the ‘Don’t Cha’ singer was a judge on ‘The X Factor UK’.

At the time, Scherzinger worked with fellow judges Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh to connect Payne with his One Direction bandmates, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan.

Behind-the-scenes footage released in 2022 showed Scherzinger encouraging her fellow judges to create “an imaginary boy group” consisting of the five teens, rather than eliminating them from the show.

“They are just too talented to put away and they have just the right look and charisma on stage,” she said at the time. “I think they would do really well in a boy band together.”

“They look like little stars,” Scherzinger continued. ‘You can’t get rid of little stars. You put them all together.”

From there, One Direction was formed. The group enjoyed incredible success, recording albums and performing together for five years until disbanding in 2015.

Payne and Scherzinger were reportedly filming the upcoming Netflix series “Building the Band” together before he died.

The “Teardrops” singer served as a judge and mentor on the unscripted show, which wrapped production in August, Deadline reported earlier this month.

Payne died on October 16 after falling from a third-floor balcony of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was 31.

According to a partial autopsy report, the hitmaker had cocaine, crack and the antidepressant benzodiazepine in his system when he died.

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