Hawk Tuah Girl, Haliey Welch, breaks her 2-month silence and addresses her cryptocurrency scandal

A street interview with creators Tim & Dee TV and Tennessee native Haliey Welch and her response to a random sexually related question saw the 22-year-old become the ‘viral sensation’ of the summer last year.

Welch became known as the ‘hawk tuah’ girl and called time on her job at a local factory and focused on taking advantage of her new-found overnight fame.

Welch was paid handsome sums of money to appear at many high profile events and even threw the first pitch at a New York Mets game last August.

Crypto crash

Welch was astute in copyrighting her ‘catchphrase’ and as the money rolled in from merchandise sales, she also launched a crypto meme coin called $Hawk and began advertising it on social media for fans to invest in the coin which almost immediately saw its monetary value drop.

A late December post on her X account relating to what many fans called ‘a scam’ was her last public communication until now ...

Faze Banks interview

Welch spoke to self titled ‘crypto gamer’ (FaZe) Banks as part of her podcast series where she opened up on the fallout from the $Hawk coin experience.

In the interview she stated: “I feel really bad for all the people that got affected by it,” adding, “and it just didn’t go the way I planned.”

She did acknowledge that the ‘biggest mistake’ was trusting the guy who was a ‘friend of a friend’ in taking on this crypto deal.

“I probably should have looked into him a little bit more,” Welch added.

Banks later posted that the podcast should never have been released until a series of criteria were met and ordered Welch to ‘fire her fucking team’.

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