‘Hawk Tuah Girl’ Haliey Welch Says She ‘Did Not Make a Dime’ After Crypto Scandal

'Hawk Tuah Girl' Haliey Welch revealed that she was not paid in the messy $HAWK crypto coin scandal.

The coin was launched on the Solana blockchain in December 2024 and rapidly decreased in value after having its highest market capitalization at roughly $500 million. The coin's artificial inflation resulted in a lawsuit against the $HAWK creators, while Welch issued a statement, saying that she was "fully cooperating" with authorities in the matter.

Weeks after speaking about the controversy in a Vanity Fair interview, Welch hosted a new episode of the Talk Tuah podcast and stressed that she wasn't compensated for the coin.

"I got paid a marketing fee, that’s all I made, I did not make a dime for the coin itself," Welch said around the 1:30-minute mark, detailing that she was paid for promotional materials.

"Anything that was raised from that coin, I did not make a dime for it," she continued. "But at this point, everything I’ve paid for PR crisis, a new lawyer, stuff like that–every bit of it went to that. So I’ve really come out with nothing. All that trouble for nothing."

When asked about her response to fans who bought the coin, Welch said she feels as though she "let them down." "It was my face on the coin so they felt like they could trust me and I could lead them to something good that's gonna be longterm and help them in the long run."

Welch added that the person who was running the $HAWK campaign caused her Twitter to be "ate up by Crypto stuff."

In her VF interview, Welch has since embraced being a "24/7 dog mom" as a mental break from the meme coin scandal. She also advised other influencers to "definitely be careful what you tie your name into and who you trust."