Hawk Tuah girl Haliey Welch didnt know how crypto worked before meme coin disaster, received death threats after

Haliey ‘Hawk Tuah’ Welch claims she had no idea what cryptocurrency was or how it worked before her disastrous meme coin launch.The viral sensation abruptly stopped her podcast and went to ground in December 2024 after the digital coin she backed, $HAWK, briefly soared then crashed.“I couldn’t tell you how crypto worked the day that coin launched,” she said on her podcast Talking Tuah, speaking for the first time about the scandal.“I had no idea.I don’t know.

So that screwed me,” she added.The coin reached a market capitalization of $500 million before becoming worthless in a matter of hours, losing money for almost everyone who invested in it.The launch then became subject to investigations by the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission, during which time Welch’s legal team told her to stop broadcasting.Welch — who initially went viral last year after she used the term “hawk tuah” to describe a sex act in an ‘on the street’ interview outside a nightclub — was cleared of any wrongdoing in relation to the meme coin and says she didn’t receive any profits from it.“I got paid a marketing fee,” she said.

“That’s all I made.I did not make a dime from the coin itself.” She also told followers she feels bad for anyone who got scammed.“It makes me feel really bad that they trusted me, and I led them to something that I did not have enough knowledge about.

I did not have enough knowledge about crypto to be getting involved with it.And I knew that, but I got talked into it, and I trusted the wrong people.”Welch, 22, said she wasn’t allowed to disclose the name of the person who allegedly hoodwinked her into putting her name to the failed coin.However, a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of investors in the coin in New York named Clinton So as the person who launched the coin and social media influencer Alex Larson Schultz as promoting it online.

Both are defendants in the case, which is ongoing.A spokesperson for ...