Charlie Puth shouted out beauty influencer Mikayla Nogueira from the stage at his Boston concert on May 22, greeting her in the pit and telling the crowd he would play “Cheating on You” next.
“Oh my God! You’re here,” Puth, 34, told Nogueira, 27, after spotting her at the show in her hometown. He singled out her companion — “I’m so happy you’re here with your boyfriend” — and added, “He has good taste in hats, how about that? I’m so happy to finally meet you,” before saying, “I love you too, and I love your boyfriend too.”
Puth then announced the next number: “This is a breakup song,” he said, and told the crowd, “It’s just the set list,” before performing “Cheating on You.” The Boston stop was part of Puth’s Whatever’s Clever! World Tour; he once attended Berklee College of Music in the city.
Nogueira had been documenting the night on social media ahead of the moment. In TikTok videos she posted before the show she said, “Get dressed with me to see Charlie Puth!” and filmed herself heading to the venue. She explained she had taken a rare spot in the pit so she could see Puth up close — “Now, I don’t usually go in pits for concerts, but I wanted to be able to see Mr. Puth, okay” — and described her concert outfit as a “sexy professor” look. In one video she also noted that she and her boyfriend Zach were in the pit.
The shout-out landed on the same day Nogueira shared she was headed to divorce court with her estranged husband, Cody Hawken. Nogueira announced in February that she was getting a divorce, saying she and Hawken split in 2025 and that “I am getting a divorce. Take a minute, take it in. I am getting a divorce.” She added then that she and Hawken still “love each other so much” and “we would do literally anything for each other. I want you to know that,” while vowing not to disclose details because “the main reason I am doing that is because I want to protect Cody. Cody deserves that.”
On the morning of May 22, as she prepared for court, Nogueira posted a TikTok saying, “Quite frankly, I could throw up,” and calling the divorce process “the hardest thing I have ever gone through in my life,” language that made her evening appearance at a breakup song feel especially pointed to many observers.
The tension was clear at the moment: Puth’s friendly, onstage recognition of Nogueira and his choice to introduce a song he labeled a breakup track overlapped with a very public legal milestone in her personal life. Puth, however, framed his move as straightforward programming; his “it’s just the set list” line left no explicit claim that the song was aimed at Nogueira or her marriage.
That framing matters. With Nogueira in the crowd and headed to divorce court the same day, the exchange carried a rawness it might not have anywhere else, but nothing Puth said onstage confirmed the performance as a personal comment on her situation. He greeted her warmly, praised her boyfriend’s hat and introduced a song he called a breakup tune — then moved on.
For now, the clearest fact is simple: at a Boston concert that doubled as a hometown night for Nogueira, Charlie Puth acknowledged her presence, introduced “Cheating on You” as a breakup song and, when asked, characterized the choice as part of the show’s set list, leaving the coincidence between song and her divorce court appearance unanswered by the artist himself.
