Liam Payne's Friend Roger Nores Says Singer's Dad Geoff Owes Him Apology

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Liam Payne's pal Roger Nores is still wrapping his head around being cleared of manslaughter charges tied to the singer's tragic drug-fueled death -- and the main thing he wants now is an apology from Liam’s dad, Geoff.

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00:00I'm feeling great. Honestly, this is like, um, this is great news and, and same as you

00:07and you know, cause we've been having these conversations all along and I was pretty confident

00:11that this was going to be yourself. Like timing is something that you never know, but obviously,

00:16um, once everything is over, um, yeah, you feel like relieved and you feel like you're

00:22like a person again, you can only do so much right as a friend, as, as a work colleague

00:27in their case or, and, and, and then when this is something like this happens, which

00:31is a full on tragedy, you feel responsible. Right? So, so that's why I can totally understand

00:38why Jeff, right? Like Liam's father, the minute this like, like, um, happened, it's like he

00:45came down to Argentina and he was, you can imagine he was so hurt, right? He had lost

00:49his son so that like, I don't have any children, but people say that's the worst thing that

00:53can happen to you in life. And so, so obviously he was hurt. And when you're hurt, like you,

00:59there's a part of you that feels responsible. Um, and when you feel responsible, you want

01:03to blame somebody, right? So it's a really human, um, reaction that he had. And to be

01:08honest, we all feel responsible. I feel responsible. It's like when you've been trying to help

01:11somebody that you, that you love and you care for, like you can't help going like, Hey,

01:16what if, right? Maybe like even two days ago, I was walking down the street and I went like,

01:20I never said that to him. Maybe if I had had this conversation with Liam, he would

01:24have changed. Right. And, and the reality is, again, you can only do so much and you're

01:28that guilt that we all feel it's not, um, going to go away.

01:32You just said that you understand how Liam's father felt about this, because I was actually

01:38about to ask you that what the relate, how you feel about Roger's father, because really

01:43the father's the father is the reason that Roger was charged. He went and talked to the

01:48police and said, it's really understandable for a father. The minute something like this

01:55happens, it's like you feel so responsible, right? And you feel like your whole world

01:59is falling apart. Um, if I felt like this was a tragedy and I wasn't like, and I was

02:03really worried and I couldn't understand what was going on. Imagine jet probably a hundred

02:07times that. Um, so, so when you're going for that and you talk to a prosecutor in some

02:13like random country, like maybe you say things that are not true. Right. And obviously that

02:18led to him saying, Oh, Roger was a caretaker. There's a Roger responsibility and all this

02:22stuff that you guys already know. And that's what started the whole thing. I think now

02:28if something with this ruling, I'm really hoping that we can like wrap up everything

02:32and put everything behind. Cause a lot of them, I think most of them are really nice

02:37people and they're just dealing with something that is really, um, not normal.

02:42So do you hope to have a conversation with, um, with Liam's father at some point?

02:48Um, I've been, I've been trying to be honest. Like it's like, like the law citizen is like

02:52in the U S is going to stay until they apologize. Right. That's like, I already said it. Um,

02:57there's no, um, I'm not, I'm not after money at all. And, and any dollar would be donated

03:02to bear, right. So Liam's son. Um, but I do want them to apologize. Cause it's like, even

03:07though, like, I, I understand that those are really human, um, like reactions and again,

03:14completely understandable. And I would never, ever judge them, but it gets to a point where

03:18it's like, guys, okay, like you may have gone too far. So maybe it's better to just settle

03:23everything, wrap up like the whole thing and just go, you know what? Like maybe I shouldn't

03:27have said something and I'm sorry. And that's it. You're suing him for dad for defamation.

03:33It sounds like what you're saying is, give me a, give me an apology. And it goes away

03:37a hundred percent, a hundred percent. They know that, you know, and that was my position

03:40from day one. You lost a dear friend and you didn't get a chance. I had imagined to grieve

03:47it in the same way people normally would, because suddenly you were being charged, uh,

03:53with, uh, his death. So what has it been like for you over these last, uh, few months being

03:59there in Argentina? Obviously not being able to say goodbye to Liam and not even have like,

04:05I haven't even processed honestly, the fact that he's gone. And, um, what I would do is

04:09like here, I'm like a few blocks away from a hotel. So where I'm saying this apartment,

04:12so I would just go to this, like that tree where like, um, the fans put all the pictures

04:19and, and I would just like say hi to him every, every night. And just like, um, that would

04:23be my like way of like coping with the whole thing. And, and like any, like every, like

04:28anybody else, right? Like from time to time you will like get angry at him and go like

04:31Liam, what, what, what the fuck did you do? Right. Why are you not here? Like, um, and

04:36then, and then you would understand it's like, wait, this is just like a tragedy and, and,

04:41and things like this happen in life. So, but yeah, but yeah, I'm looking forward to like

04:44trying to understand and process my feelings without this whole thing around me.

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