Haliey Welch has broken her silence on the cryptocurrency scandal that almost ended her career last year.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the 22-year-old said that her feelings had been ‘hurt’ by the controversy, which resulted in many of her fans losing money on her ill-fated $HAWK memecoin.
‘Half of those people that done it were, like, my fans. They trusted me, like, guiding them to it,’ she told the publication.
‘And I don’t know… it really hurt my feelings when it turned out the way it did. I wish it hadn’t have happened.’
Elaborating further, Welch admitted that she doesn’t really even ‘understand’ crypto but had learned a valuable lesson from the ordeal.
‘You got to be really careful what you tie your name to, and you…
