Maya Henry dressed to impress in a stylish black outfit as she headed on her first night out in London on Monday following the funeral of her ex-fiancé Liam Payne

The American model, 24, looked incredible as she flashed a black bra under a sexy mesh bodysuit as she attended the British Fashion Awards afterparty at Chiltern Firehouse

Liam was laid to rest last week in a moving ceremony after his death aged 31 last month, following a fall from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.

Following Liam’s death, Maya became the target of online trolls who have been unfairly saying she it to blame for the death of the singer.

Maya since returned to Instagram to celebrate Thanksgiving with her nearest and dearest.

Alongside several wholesome snaps from through out her day, Maya told her fans what she was grateful for, penning: ‘Happy Thanksgiving. Thankful for my family, friends and God.’

Maya’s last Instagram post was on October 15, just one day before Liam death’s. Since then the influencer has taken a long break from social media and has limited comments on her post. 

At the time of his death, a source close to Maya told DailyMail.com: ‘Right now she is obviously in shock.’

The model only found out when a member of her team was contacted by a reporter.

Liam made his first public appearance with Maya in 2019 before their stop-start three-year relationship came to an end in 2022, almost a year after the former couple called off their engagement.

Maya teamed the eye catching top with a pair of matching wide legged trousers and added a long satin coat over the ensemble as she headed to a second party, Vas Morgan’s birthday in Mayfair

It comes just a few days after bravely returning to social media – one week after ex-fiancé Liam Payne ‘s funeral

The One Direction star was laid to rest last week in a moving ceremony after his death last month, following a fall from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires

The Strip That Down For Me singer then moved on with girlfriend Kate Cassidy, while Maya promoted her debut novel, Looking Forward – an art-imitating-life romance about a girl who falls in love with a pop star.

Maya has been defended by fans who have rushed to share messages of support in the comments section of her post.

Her supporters have jumped to her defence over vile comments which have been posted online about her involvement in Liam’s death.

Underneath her most recent Instagram picture, trolls posted sickening comments asking Maya if ‘she was happy’ and telling her the death was ‘her fault’.

After noticing the comments on her page, many shared their own more positive remarks, reminding Maya that the tragic events were not her fault.

They read: ‘For everyone in the comments attacking Maya, Liam’s death isn’t her fault. She’s allowed to share the truth about their relationship and how he treated her. Victims are allowed to tell their stories.

‘There is no way that anyone could’ve seen Liam’s death coming. So y’all need to stop attacking her and leave her alone. It’s not her fault.’

Others read: ‘Girl please take a break from social media if you need or mute the comments. You’ve done nothing wrong. Take your time to heal’; ‘Just want you to know you are so loved and cared for we all stand with you Maya’; Turn your comments off’; ‘It’s not your fault’;

‘Leave this woman alone. Y’all don’t know what happened. Go pot condolences on his page, but why attack her? Grow up! Be respectful’; It’s not your fault, please don’t blame yourself’;

‘People blaming her for Liam’s death is so stupid. Victims are allowed to tell their stories, she couldn’t have foreseen this death happening. You all need to grow up’;

The Texan model has now returned to Instagram to celebrate Thanksgiving with her nearest and dearest

Liam made his first public appearance with Maya in 2019 before their stop-start three-year relationship came to an end in 2022, almost a year after the former couple called off their engagement

Maya, who is said to be ‘in shock’ over Liam’s death, has been defended by fans who have rushed to share messages of support in the comments section of her post

Just days before his death Maya accused the singer of obsessively contacting her friends and family including her mother Azteca Henry.

Lawyers for the star told MailOnline: ‘Maya Henry issued a cease and desist last week to Payne following the emergence of new and concerning information.

‘She has retained attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna to represent her. At this time, that is her only comment on the matter.’

Sharing a brutal assessment of Liam with TikTok followers last week, Maya – the daughter of multi-millionaire personal-injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry – claimed he has gone to extraordinary lengths in an attempt to contact her.

‘Ever since we broke up he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone, it’s always from different phone numbers too, so I never know where it’s gonna come from,’ she said.

‘He’ll create new iCloud accounts to message me – it’s always a new damn iCloud account. Every time I see one pop up on my phone I’m like, ‘here we f***ing go again.’

‘Also, he will email me… not only me, but he’ll blow up my mom’s phone. Is this normal behavior to you?

The model also accused Liam of playing on the loyalty of die-hard One Direction fans across social media to pillory her.

Maya recently opened up about the ‘fictional elements’ to her book, which she claimed is a fiction novel based on true events from her own life.

On a new podcast, The Internet is Dead, Maya addressed how much of the book is fiction and claimed that fans didn’t think it was about her ex-boyfriend.

His girlfriend Kate Cassidy posted a picture of the pair on her Instagram last August

Noting some of the things she changed, Maya said: ‘Some of the things that are fictionalized in the book are obviously the name changes, some of the cities are different like I say I’m from Tennessee in the book when I’m from Texas.’

Maya then went on to discuss why fans didn’t think the book was about Payne, who is father to his son Bear, six, from his relationship with ex Cheryl Cole.

She said: ‘Then also for example another big point was that people were like this can’t be about Liam because when I was talking about the abortion he said ‘oh I’m not ready for a kid’, because he is already a father.’

Explaining why she slightly changed the events, Maya said: ‘And in real life that’s obviously not the case, but for privacy reasons I just wanted to leave stuff like that out of the book and just tell my story so that’s kind of why it is fiction.

‘Because if you do something that’s nonfiction everything has to be fiction everything has to be so factual and you can’t leave anything out.’

Revealing that some of the worst parts of her story were omitted from the story, she said: ‘There are a lot of things that are worse than that I did leave out. So it’s fiction inspired by true events.’

Liam was laid to rest last week in a moving ceremony after his death last month.

Harry Styles, 30, Niall Horan, 31, Zayn Malik , 31, and Louis Tomlinson , 32, were all present in what was believed to be their first public meeting as a group since their last concert in 2015. Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy , 25, was also in attendance.

A church source said a choir and musicians performed at the service. One of the floral displays shows bowling pins and a ball – a nod to his love of bowling, which Kate said he did four times a week.

The funeral’s location was a closely guarded secret, and local residents only realising it was taking place when ‘no parking’ signs were erected around the church.