Hi Ovrcookedfunion,
What’s happening here is that you’re light is no longer being occluded by the mesh that is no longer being rendered due to its distance bound scale. You will need to increase the distance bounds scale via the details panel for your mesh. It is set to a default of 1.0, but if you increase this you can get the mesh not to occlude for a longer distance. It is not recommended to do this unless you need to for your specific meshes. Only increase incrementally. Try a scale of 2 and see if that helps. 
Tim