I think Liam is evidently mentally immature and has no boundaries for what he’s willing to share online because he doesn’t seem to fully comprehend the consequences of his actions. Not excusing him because he’s done things I really don’t agree with, but at this point I’m not sure viewing his posts and what he does through a normal person’s lens saying he’s using him for promotion is a good idea. It seems he’s either just slow/stunted in some way or has fried his brain with drug use. No 30 year old man acts like this without something else going on.
Stunted and mentally ill probably. I can't imagine the pressure of being plucked from a normal life at 17 and overnight becoming a huge sensation. You add substance misuse on top of that and it's a recipe for disaster. No amount of money, success and living your dream can ever take away from the 'normal' things they missed out on. They turned 18 as global superstars while the rest of us were jamming in pop world, passing driving tests, going on party holidays, going to university. There was no coming of age for them really. They couldn't even go to the supermarket.
They also weren't neopotism babies so it's not like they had families who knew the industry and could guide them through it. They were rags to riches in the extreme, vulnerable and wide open to manipulation and exploitation which is inevitably what happened.
I feel desperately sorry for him to be honest. Between being badly bullied as a kid, thrown to the wolves as a 17 year old on a global scale, no time or space to grow and develop cause I'd imagine it's pretty hard to do that when you're Liam from 1D and that's all anyone actually cares about, far away from any sense of normality and to boot, he probably thought his post 1D career would go better than it has which I'd imagine is a bit of a suckerpunch.
