Diem Brown 'MTV Real World Challenge' Funeral: Family And Friends Pay Respect And Trisha Yearwood Performs

Beloved MTV Real World & Road Rules Challenge star Diem Brown was laid to rest today, Nov. 18. A memorial service for the 34-year-old reality star, who lost her long battle with cancer last Friday, was held earlier today in New York City. Family and friends of Diem came to pay their respects to the star in an elegant and moving service.

According to People, the service was held at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in Downtown Manhattan and was presided over by the church's own the Rev. Peter Fink and Pastor Kane Keatinge from Hillsong Church.

The ceremony brought together Brown's family and friends, including her younger sister Megan and her longtime friend and E! News correspondent Alicia Quarles.

"Diem loved hard, lived hard and danced hard," Brown's sister said in her emotional speech. "My mom always said that Diem came out fighting since Day 1."

"Diem was the happiest person I know," Alicia explained in her eulogy. "Till her last breath, she never gave up. I can't even explain to you her divinity."

The E! News reporter also invited her friend and award-winning country singer Trisha Yearwood to perform at the service. Brown devoted her life to spreading awareness for cancer after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer twice, once in 2006 and then again in 2012.

She explained to People a few weeks before her death how thankful she was that she was able to give a voice to the disease:

#StandUpToCancer @SU2C 2years ago I stood up w/died half-shaved hair today I #StandUp & hope for a cure! Tune in pic.twitter.com/74e239r1c6 — Diem Brown (@DiemBrownMTV) September 5, 2014

"I'm so fortunate to have a platform as I know I'm not the only one out there going through something like this," the star explained. "I promise to keep trucking along if for nothing else but others who need to know it is possible to beat this horrible disease once and for all!"

Rest in peace, Diem.