Miley Cyrus was excited about Jesse Helt escorting her to the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. She posted their picture on social media with the caption "My date :) #jesse #myfriendsplace #mtvVMAs2014."
The pair joined rapper Snoop Lion's daughter Cori Broadus and Snoop on the red carpet before the awards show began at the Forum on August 24, 2014, in Inglewood, California.
No one is quite sure what Cyrus is up to as she marches Helt up to the stage after she was named the winner of the Video of the Year for her single "Wrecking Ball."
Helt accepts the Video of the Year award on behalf of Cyrus from late night host Jimmy Fallon.
Helt reads a speech about the issue of youth homelessness as he accepts Cyrus' award. He is reportedly a representative of My Friend's Place, an organization that aids homeless youth and it is there that he and the singer met.
Cyrus cries during Helt's speech and hugs him as they leave the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards stage.
Cyrus and Helt embrace following his acceptance speech given on behalf of the singer who won Video of the Year for "Wrecking Ball" during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.
- An arrest warrant was issued for Jesse Helt in 2011, a corrections official says
- Helt stopped checking in with his probation officer for a criminal trespass conviction, he says
- Cyrus: "You've chosen to go after Jesse instead of covering" the youth homelessness issue
- Helt could spend a year in jail for his probation violation, the official says
(CNN) -- The young man Miley Cyrus chose to represent homeless youths at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday faces arrest in Oregon, a corrections official said.
An arrest warrant was issued for Jesse Helt, 22, when he stopped checking in with his probation officer for a criminal trespass conviction in November 2011, said Polk County, Oregon, Corrections Director Martin Silbernagel.
"Reportedly, he has returned to the Polk County area," Silbernagel said. "We will be attempting to serve him his warrant, at which time he will be taken into custody."
Helt took center stage at Sunday's VMA broadcast to accept the best video of 2014 award "on behalf of the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youths in the United States who are starving, lost and scared for their lives right now."
Cyrus, whose "Wrecking Ball" video was being honored, appeared to be near tears as she watched Helt, who said he was homeless, read the acceptance speech calling attention to the large population of homeless young people in Los Angeles.
"I've survived in shelters all over this city," he said. "I've cleaned your hotel rooms. I've been an extra in your movies. I've been an extra in your life. Though I may have been invisible to you on the streets, I have a lot of the same dreams that brought many of you here tonight."
Along with raising awareness of the problem of young people living on the streets of Los Angeles, Helt's story caught the attention of corrections officials in northwest Oregon, where he grew up and his mother lives.
If police find Helt, who some media reports said returned to Salem, Oregon, to visit his mother, he will be taken before a judge to decide if he will spend up to a year in jail or be allowed to resume his probation, Silbernagel said.
The media never fails to disappoint. You've chosen to go after Jesse instead of covering the issue of youth homelessness :(
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) August 26, 2014"The media never fails to disappoint. You've chosen to go after Jesse instead of covering the issue of youth homelessness :(" Cyrus said on Twitter after online reports of his arrest warrant were first published Tuesday.
"While the media obsesses over one homeless mans legal issue, let's help the other 1.6 million homeless youth http://www.prizeo.com/miley," Cyrus said in an Instagram posting.
In a video posted on her Facebook page, she instructs fans to donate through a Prizeo fundraising site to My Friend's Place, a Los Angeles area charity that provides support for homeless people ages 12 to 25.
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CNN's Carolyn Sung contributed to this report.
