Bam delivered the Biebs.
Payton Wall's world was torn apart when her dad died on 9/11 -- but President Obama brightened the New Jersey teen's life by making good on his promise to set up a meeting with his "buddy" Justin Bieber.
Wall, who listened to the teen heartthrob's lyrics during her darkest days, asked the president to make her dream come true at last month's Ground Zero wreath laying -- and on Thursday her wish was fulfilled.
"It was so cool. I couldn't even believe it," gushed Payton, who got a private sit-down with the Canadian crooner at Macy's in Herald Square. They met just moments after a near-riot among fans outside the store where the singer was promoting his fragrance "Someday."
Doused in the sweet-smelling perfume, Payton, her sister Avery, 12, and best friend Madison Roberson, 14, embraced the perfectly coifed pop singer in a VIP section on the store's eighth floor.
"He just said 'Hi,' " said Payton, who admitted she was more nervous around Bieber than the president.
"He was asking us about the perfume and if we were wearing it."
It was an uplifting moment for the starry-eyed threesome from New Jersey -- whose dads, Cantor Fitzgerald executives Glen James Wall and Donny Robertson, were killed in the Twin Towers on 9/11.
The girls carried a life-size cardboard cutout of Obama and were so overcome with shyness, they could barely get any words out when the teenybopper showed up. "He was really nice and is so cute," Avery beamed. "He didn't even look real."
Payton and her BFF Madison began a letter-writing campaign to meet Bieber months ago. Payton mailed her plea to entertainment-industry honchos and to the White House, where Obama read it in early May.
Obama invited the teen, her sister, and mom Diane, to a wreath-laying ceremony at Ground Zero last month -- where Payton again made her request to the president.
"I know Justin," Obama told her. "Maybe I could set something up."
Source: New York Post
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