Shocking new footage that appears to capture Liam Payne’s final moments shows the listless One Direction singer being dragged through the lobby of his Argentine hotel – an image that left grieving friend Kate Cassidy reflecting on the missed opportunity to avert his tragic death , makes you cry.

“Whenever it seems like it can’t get any more painful for Kate, it gets even more painful,” a close friend of the 25-year-old influencer told The Post.

“He could have been saved, he could have been helped. It’s devastating – and infuriating.”

The harrowing CCTV footage captured at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires shows three men carrying a seemingly unconscious Payne by his arms and legs from the building’s main lobby.

The footage was time-stamped at 4:54 p.m. on October 16 – exactly 13 minutes before Payne fell to his death.

The Post could not independently verify the accuracy of the timestamp, but a report from the Daily Mail found that the timestamp conflicted with another CCTV image taken outside Payne’s room, which was timestamped seconds before the lobby image .

The 31-year-old singer behaved erratically in the lobby for about an hour before becoming incapacitated. A witness claimed Payne was “twitching” on the floor, according to the outlet, which obtained a still from the surveillance video.

Somehow, Payne ended up back in his hotel room alone at 5:17 p.m

Minutes later, the “For You” singer died from multiple blunt force injuries after falling from his balcony.

An autopsy revealed the former boy bander had a toxic mix of drugs in his system at the time of his death – including crack cocaine and so-called “pink cocaine,” a mix of ketamine and other drugs.

Payne died instantly from severe internal and external injuries when he fatally fell. At the time, experts told the Post that the singer appeared to be unconscious as he fell into the courtyard below.

For Cassidy, who has been dating Payne since 2022, the new footage is devastating. She had left Argentina two days before his fatal fall.

The CCTV footage is among more than 800 hours of video footage both in and around the hotel that investigators are analyzing as part of Payne’s death investigation.

Officials are also reviewing dozens of testimonies from “hotel staff, family members, friends, medical professionals, biochemists and psychiatrists.”

Argentine police are still investigating the final days of Payne’s life. They assume that the singer celebrated a party with two prostitutes and, under the influence of drugs, went on a drinking spree that culminated in the fatal fall. According to authorities, the prostitutes left the hotel after a payment dispute.

Local police are investigating three people, including his close friend Rogelio “Roger” Nores, in connection with the singer’s death.

They also named former hotel employee Braian Nahuel Paiz, who allegedly supplied him with drugs.

The 24-year-old admitted to having two hotel meetings with the “Story of My Life” singer, but insisted he did not sell him drugs and only spent an “intimate” time with him.

A third man, Ezequiel David Pereyra, is being investigated for being a “drug supplier”.