Nicole Scherzinger was still in touch with the late One Direction star, Liam Payneuntil the day he died, according to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The composer, 76, who wrote the music for the Broadway production Sunset Blvd. in which Scherzinger, 46, made the comments in a Billboard interview published Thursday, October 24.

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

After hearing the tragic news of Payne’s death, Scherzinger managed to keep her promises to play Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. that same night.

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Months before Liam Payne’s tragic death, the former One Direction member filmed an appearance as a mentor on Netflix’s upcoming competition series, Building the Band. Us Weekly confirmed that Payne died on Wednesday, October 16 at the age of 31. He suffered “serious injuries” after falling from a third-floor balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, (…)

“She had just heard he died and the fact that she did the show at all is extraordinary. I mean, she’s an amazing, amazing woman,” Lloyd Webber told the outlet, “She’s hands down one of the best artists I’ve ever worked with.”

Scherzinger first met Payne when he was auditioning as a teenager The X Factor Britain in 2010 where the singer worked as a judge at the time. She supported him from the start.

More recently, Payne and Scherzinger worked together as judges on a new talent show series for Netflix called Building the bond. Destiny’s Child star Kelly Rowland was a fellow judge on the reality show while The Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean was host. Although the show was greenlit by Netflix in May and filming wrapped in August, it is unclear whether the show will still air after Payne’s death.

We weekly confirmed on Wednesday, October 16, that Payne died at the age of 31 after falling from the balcony of his third-floor hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An autopsy report obtained by Us revealed that the musician died of “multiple traumas” involving “internal and external bleeding.”

Payne rose to fame with the British version of The X factoron which he and band members Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan And Louis Tomlinson were formed into One Direction. The group went on indefinite hiatus a year after Malik left the band in 2015.

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“We are completely devastated by the news of Liam’s passing,” the group’s remaining members wrote in a joint Instagram statement on Thursday, October 17, before each member shared their own individual tribute.

“The memories we shared with him will be cherished forever,” their message continued. “For now, our thoughts are with his family, his friends and the fans who loved him alongside us. We will miss him terribly. We love you Liam. Louis, Zayn, Niall and Harry.”