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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 23: Noah Beck and Dixie D’Amelio pose backstage for the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, broadcast on May 23, 2021 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images for dcp)

Dixie D’Ameliois setting the record straight when it comes to her relationship withNoah Beck.

“As we’ve said like a million times, we’ve decided to take our relationship off social media,” D’Amelio explained, adding that the decision is “better for our mental health.”

D’Amelio added, “But yeah, we love each other.”

D’Amelio first connected with Beck in 2020 following her breakup with fellow TikTok starGriffin Johnson. The duo started posting on social media together that summer, but the couple did not gopublic with their relationshipuntil October 2020, when they were both 19.

Breakup rumors swirled earlier this month after D’Amelio celebrated her 21st birthday with a trip to Las Vegas — and Beck was notably absent from the event.

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NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 28: Dixie D’Amelio speaks onstage at the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Center on August 28, 2022 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for MTV/Paramount Global)

On Aug. 11, Beck addressed the rumors onTwitter: “Regarding Dixie’s birthday party, work has held me back from attending the fun in vegas,” he said. “A lot of the work that is done behind the scenes, the stuff that makes all this other stuff possible. as consumers of our content, please stop assuming the worst between us. we are both very hardworking and we understand that with being or striving for success, comes a lot of sacrifice.”

Beck added, “We need the help of people who support/love us to bring us up and not down.”

Later that day, hetweetedagain, writing, “it’s almost her day… make her feel the love she deserves,” along with a heart-hands emoji.

At the VMAs, D’Amelio — who turned 21 on Aug. 12 — also told PEOPLE about her birthday celebration.

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“It was so much fun! It was really cool [to be] around all my friends and family,” she said. “I had a great time. I feel like I’ve been waiting for the 21st birthday, and I was so nervous for some reason.”

She added, “I have celebrated past birthdays in Vegas but this was my first legal time in Vegas, being able to go out so that was really cool.”

source: people.com