Rebecca Ferguson said she had attempted to contact her former X Factor co-star Liam Payne a week before his death because she had been “worried about him for a while”.The singer-songwriter, who appeared in the final of The X Factor with One Direction in 2010,

The singer, who took part in The X Factor alongside Liam Payne's band One Direction, has spoken out in the past about duty of care on TV shows.

Singer-songwriter Rebecca Ferguson said she was ‘in denial, shocked and hurt’ after it was announced Payne had fallen to his death in Buenos Aires, Argentina this week