Haliey Welch slams claims she is suing creators of her viral Hawk Tuah video

Haliey Welch has unopen down swirling rumors that she is suing the creators of the viral 'Hawk Tuah' video that catapulted her into fame. 

The overnight sensation was thrown into the spotlight successful June of this twelvemonth erstwhile a clip of her giving a racy enactment extremity connected the streets of Nashville went viral.

When YouTubers, Tim & Dee TV, stopped Welch for a man-on-the-street chat and asked her what makes a 'man spell crazy' successful the bedroom, she replied 'Hawk Tuah' - a abbreviated operation meant to picture the dependable associated with an intimate act.

Since that moment, Welch has capitalized disconnected of her overnight fame with merchandise and the motorboat of her precise ain podcast called Talk Tuah.

But rumors started to alert connected Saturday evening aft an X account, @DramaAlert, wrote that Welch is suing the antheral who made her famous. 

The rumors lone intensified aft the relationship added a screenshot wherever the interviewers, Tim Dickerson and DeArius Marlow, appeared to corroborate the allegations successful the comments of a TikTok video.

Marlow replied to viewers questioning if it were existent and said: 'Not fake news. They dropping a backstory vid connected YouTube with each the receipts.'

Once the assertion gained traction connected the internet, netizens criticized Welch successful the comments.

One spectator wrote: 'And this volition beryllium her downfall. How awful. She hasn't helped them with anyone. She was a nobody. Now she's suing the kid? Gtfoh. How ungrateful.' 

'She should beryllium thanking him,' said another.

Another spectator added: 'Suing the radical who made you affluent and celebrated for making you affluent and celebrated is CRAZY.' 

But Welch snapped backmost the adjacent day, posting a photograph of her look photoshopped onto Reece Witherspoon's quality successful a courtroom country from the fashionable movie, Legally Blonde, connected X.

'Fake news,' the caption said.

Someone responded to her station with a screenshot of the TikTok comment, wherever she past responded: 'If I sued it would beryllium nationalist but I conjecture clout is being chased', Newsweek reported.

After being thrust into the spotlight, Welch was capable to crook her 15 minutes of fame into an wholly caller career.

She since discontinue her erstwhile occupation astatine a outpouring mill successful Belfast, Tennessee, and has been a impermanent connected dozens of established podcasts, threw the archetypal transportation astatine a New York Mets game, was referenced successful a Saturday Night Live skit and adjacent appeared alongside the state singer, Zach Bryan, astatine 1 of his shows.

In July of this year, Welch filed to trademark her present signature operation for implicit rights to usage the sensational enactment connected merchandise items, including hats and t-shirts, which has made her tens of thousands of dollars truthful far. 

But Dickerson and Marlow could person ne'er imagined however overmuch of an net sensation she would go aft their posted clip deed implicit 13 cardinal views connected TikTok.

The contented creators told the New York Times this past July that though they are blessed for Welch, they sometimes wonderment erstwhile oregon if they'll ever get immoderate credit.

'At the extremity of the day, cipher would cognize who she was if we didn't bring it to airy and station it,' said Marlow. 

'A batch of the assemblage who hadn't seen america earlier deliberation we grew disconnected this 1 clip. People were treating it similar we're nobodies and didn't already person a platform.' 

But aft Welch addressed the rumors connected societal media Sunday, radical were speedy to reinstate their enactment for the net sensation.

One spectator wrote: 'Glad it's fake, wanted to deed that unfollow button.'

'Well I would anticipation not, and it's champion if you outcry that antheral retired who decidedly helped you wherever you are contiguous due to the fact that you wouldn't adjacent person a podcast if we didn't cognize who you was,' said another.

Another added: 'No substance what anyone says, they wanna speech astir you. Good oregon bad. Your level is there.'

Some viewers connected the net are present waiting for the alleged 'receipts' that Marlow noted would soon beryllium coming. 

But the authenticity of the study has yet to beryllium confirmed.