TikTok star Dixie D’Amelio struggled to get through her mini-concert on Friday night.
D’Amelio was close friends with fellow social media star Cooper Noriega who died on Thursday and had to fight to gain her composure midway through the short set.
“A friend of mine lost his life yesterday,” she told the crowd at the Puma store on Fifth Avenue while turning away and wiping away tears, before urging everyone to check up on their friends.
An insider told Page Six that her management offered to cancel the show, but she insisted on going forward because she didn’t want to disappoint her fans. When D’Amelio fought to hold back tears the crowd shouted out their support.
D’Amelio, 20, rose to prominence after her younger sister, Charli D’Amelio, became a star on TikTok, amassing over 50 million followers. Last year she released her first single, “Be Happy” and has a debut CD out called “a letter to me.”
TikTok star Cooper Noriega was found dead in a parking lot Thursday, hours after posting a chilling video about dying “young af.”
The 19-year-old social media star — who boasted 1.7 million followers on the video-sharing app — died outside an LA-area mall, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner’s website.
Noriega had recently opened up about using drugs before he turned 10.
Last week he appeared on Barstool’s “BFFs” podcast and revealed to taking “Xanax, Aderall, mariuana and nicotine” at only nine years old.
His cause of death is unknown at this time.
A spokesperson for the LA Coroner’s Office told Page Six Friday that the ruling on the manner of Noriega’s death has been “deferred,” which means that is it still unclear “after an autopsy” and the medical examiner needs “more investigation into the death, including additional studies.
Once the tests/studies come back, the doctor evaluates the case again and makes the cause of death determination.”
