Kiwi hip-hop choreographer to the stars Parris Goebel and her family are mourning the tragic loss of her 15-month-old nephew.
Amarni Collins - the son of Goebel's sister, Kendal, and her husband Sean Collins - died in hospital on Friday, just three days after being admitted with a heart problem.
Goebel, and her father and manager, Brett, learned the shattering news after landing at Los Angeles International Airport en route from New York to London on Friday.
The pair had attended the MTV Video Music Awards in New York on Monday. "The plane landed and we turned on our phones and all of these messages appeared. It was pretty messy," Brett Goebel told the Herald on Sunday.
"We walked out of one terminal and headed over to the Air New Zealand terminal as quick as we could and got on the next plane home."