He had talked about suicidal ideation in a recent podcast, which makes me think he had researched the subject or had been undergoing professional counselling to be familiar with that expression. It would be churlish not to acknowledge that he brought pleasure to his many fans, mainly teenage girls, to whom the boy band One Direction was marketed. One can hardly call a young man of 31 years of age who was worth £47 million a failure, though that may have been how he perceived himself, and there were undoubtedly some good facets to the character, but his latest song Teardrop was a flop, he had been sending threatening texts to ex-girlfriend Maya Henry, who had obtained a cease and desist notice against him, and it seemed his current lifestyle dependent on central nervous system stimulants to get through the week, despite having a 7-year-old son he shared with Cheryl, just wasn't enough for him.
