The proud mum of teenager Olivia Campbell-Hardy fought back tears as she paid touching tribute to her 'princess' at the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena terror attack.
Olivia was just 15 - one of 22 lives lost in the atrocity on May 22, 2017.
Her mum, Charlotte Hodgson, compiled a video tribute to her daughter - and through it told the inquiry how Olivia loved singing, dancing, hair and make-up.
"Ollie was my shadow and I couldn't even have a bath without her, go to the toilet, anything," she said.
"It was impossible to be angry with her.
"All she did was make you laugh."
The public inquiry into the bombing entered its ninth day on Tuesday.
Pen portraits from the families and friends of the deceased, and moving personal evidence about them, are continuing to be heard and shown to the inquiry.
Olivia, from Bury, was a pupil at Tottington High School in Bury.
Mum Charlotte said Olivia loved 'rough and tumble' with the boys as a youngster.
She recalled holidays and how on one trip, Olivia entered a dance competition.
It fuelled her passion for music, the inquiry heard.
"She always said she hated being the centre of attention, but I could see how much she enjoyed herself - that insight into limelight," Charlotte said.
Olivia joined a choir and was loving school, she added.
"Ollie's favourite colour was blue so she decided that everything had to be blue.
"And I mean everything."
At a school prom, Olivia dyed her hair blue and arrived on the back of a scooter.
"She had a great night and danced her socks off," Charlotte said.
"Any of the school reports I got said she was funny and cheeky."
Charlotte said Olivia thrived at 'Totty High'.
"Especially with music," she said. "She really enjoyed being at school.
"She was never in any trouble, except for talking and singing in class."
Charlotte recalled a charity swimming gala Olivia took part in aged 12, despite a leg injury.
"She wanted to raise money to help others. She was always putting others before herself," her mum said.
She told how making others smile was important to her daughter.
"She would always do things purposefully to make people laugh," Charlotte said.
"Ollie didn't walk into a room, she made an entrance. The door would fling open.
"Anything she did she made funny."
"She was always coming up with something to make people laugh and you just had to have your phone constantly on and ready to catch her in the act."
Charlotte said Olivia loved her music - 'it was her life'.
"Ollie had really wanted to make music her career either as a singer on the West End or as a music teacher," her mum added.
"It always had to be about music.
"She told me she was going to be famous one day and she wanted a big house in New York."
When she was 12, she sang at Charlotte's mum's wedding, the inquiry was told. The performance reduced those watching to tears.
"She had too much to give," Charlotte said.
"She had her whole life ahead of her. With her determination she would have accomplished whatever she set out to achieve.
"She would put 100 per cent into everything, but she always did it with a smile on her face.
"She just wanted everybody to be happy.
"Since Olivia's gone, the laughter has left us too.
"I am never going to hear her laugh again."
Charlotte said Olivia hated odd numbers.
If the volume on the television remote control was set to an odd number, she would change it to even, Charlotte said.
She told the inquiry that when she died, Olivia was given a body number - five.
"She would have hated that," said Charlotte.
"Being an odd number, whoever gave her that number is surely being haunted by her.
"Olivia is not a number.
"To the world she is one of the 22 angels. Not to me. She is Ollie. She will never be just a number.
"Ollie was a 15-year-old girl. She had her whole life ahead of her."
Charlotte said Olivia loved unicorns - and 'had a thing about dinosaurs'.
She added: "She never really said 'I love you' to people.
"She told us that in dinosaur language, 'roar' means 'I love you'.
"So she would come up to me and just say 'roar mum'. That was her way of saying 'I love you, mum'.
"Ollie my princess, I miss you so much.
"You were so special. You know we love you so much.
"I will simply say 'roar', from mummy."
Suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a rucksack bomb after an Ariana Grande concert held at the Arena.
The attack left many more people injured as well as the 22 lives lost.
Hashem Abedi, his brother, is currently serving a 55-year minimum sentence after being convicted over the atrocity.
The public inquiry - set to run until next spring - is examining all aspects of the bombing.
