He then explained just how affected he was after hearing the news about his friend, and how he has a certain tradition whenever he hears that someone close to him has passed: “Every time someone close to me passes away I always text their phone and — I don’t know why I do this often — I just wrote, ‘I love you man,’ and I knew he wasn’t going to write back, but I just felt like I had to do it anyway.”

The two had gotten along almost immediately after meeting through their shared personal trainer, Harley Pasternak. “We talked almost every day, and I don’t get a lot of friends who come into my life who I hit it off with so quickly,” Puth clarified. He then went to twitter to share his sentiment, replying to one of the other’s old tweets and saying that he can’t “keep losing friends like this” and that he had wished that he had spent more time with the man the weeks before. He thanked Miller for being the \”soundtrack to his college years\”, and so far he\’s received tons of support from other fans for opening up.