Nicole Scherzinger was texting Liam Payne on the day he died.
The 46-year-old singer - who was one of the judges on 'The X Factor' who helped put One Direction together in 2010 - has been praised by theatre guru Andrew Lloyd Webber for retaining her composure and still making it on stage for the press night of 'SUNSET BLVD' on New York's Broadway just hours after she heard her friend had fatally fallen from his hotel balcony last week.