Justin Bieber Hints That He Wants To Meet Teen Whose Father Was Killed On 9/11

The teenage girl whose father died on 9/11 could be closer to meeting Justin Bieber after asking President Obama that she was interested in seeing the pop star in the flesh.

Tweeting in response to a New York Magazine blog post the president’s promise, Bieber wrote, “I think you’re wrong.”

“Pretty sure President Barack Obama will keep this promise,” Bieber added.

Payton Wall, 14, whose father was killed in the 9/11 attacks, told President Obama during a Ground Zero ceremony last week that she wanted to meet the singer.

In response, Obama told her he knew Bieber and would try to make the teen’s wish come true.

Wall had originally tried to contact the pop idol through Twitter on Feb. 19.

“Hey! I have an awful life story and without your music I don’t know if I could have survived,” she tweeted him. “Do you think I could send you a letter?”

“Yeah, it is his music, and his story lifted me up when I was down,” Payton said last Thursday after meeting Obama.

When Bieber did not reply, she tried Obama and had better results.

Her father, a Lynbrook, LI, native, worked for 17 years on Wall Street, including 12 at Cantor Fitzgerald. At the time of his death, at age 38, he headed the collateralized mortgage obligation desk on the top floors of the north tower.

The day after Osama bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs, the president was given his daily handful of letters from Americans to read, and Payton’s stood out, White House officials said.

“I sent it on a Web site that lets you send e-mails to the White House,” Payton said last week.

The next day, the White House called her mother, Diane — who didn’t even know Payton had written the letter, officials said.

Obama invited Payton, her mother and her sister, Avery, to last week’s ceremony at Ground Zero.

Payton said she spent days practicing a strong handshake, but in the end Obama gave her a presidential bear hug.

She said Obama also told her that he “knows Justin” and that he would help arrange a meeting between the two.

The teen said she’s thrilled, but “I just don’t want it to seem like I only wrote the letter to meet Justin Bieber. I did it to honor my father,” she said. “My father is the reason that we all came together today. I miss and love him and don’t go a day without thinking about him.”

Source: NYPost.com

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