Lieutenant Dan's daughter warns sudden surge of cash and attention after Hurricane Milton will kill her dad

The girl of Lieutenant Dan has slammed his caller fans who person heaped attraction connected her father, saying that his viral fame volition pb him to an aboriginal grave. 

Joseph Malinowski, amended known arsenic Lieutenant Dan, is simply a one-legged Florida sailor who went viral for refusing to permission his sailboat successful the look of Hurricane Milton. 

Malinowski had his archetypal sensation of fame erstwhile University of Tampa pupil Terrence Concannon began signaling viral TikTok videos of him arsenic the tempest approached.  

Concannon organized an online fundraiser for the one-legged sailor, which received much than $46,000 successful donations.  

Streamer Adin Ross besides announced that helium would acquisition Malinowski a caller vessel - an connection that helium seemingly reneged connected erstwhile the sailor's lengthy transgression past surfaced. 

On Friday, Ashley Ann Malinowski uploaded a TikTok successful which she condemned the influencers who person turned her begetter into an net celebrity. 

Posting to her account, Ashley Ann tearfully said that her begetter would 'probably extremity up dead' due to the fact that of each of the attention.

'Lieutenant Dan was doing conscionable good without each that money,' the girl began. 

'Y'all TikTok... celebrated radical blowing him up... he's going to beryllium dormant earlier helium tin adjacent bask that boat.'

Ashley Ann past said that her begetter was 'high' successful each of the videos, which made her wonderment 'is it conscionable weed?' 

She explained that she has had 'to support tabs [on her father] for 10 years, trying to marque definite he's alive.'

'Now he's gonna get each of this and astir apt extremity up dormant due to the fact that of it,' she said. 

She said that she was trying not to springiness the concern excessively overmuch of her 'energy,' clarifying that she conscionable wanted to marque definite her begetter was alive.

But then, erstwhile she took purpose astatine her father's alleged enablers, she started to teardrop up. 

'Y'all are gonna f****** enactment him successful the sedate for making him celebrated and giving him this wealth and offering him this s***.

'Y'all don't adjacent cognize what the f*** you're doing. You don't cognize that man. You don't cognize him astatine all.'

With tears successful her eyes, Ashley Ann past accused influencers of not genuinely caring astir her father's welfare. 

'Nobody really f****** cares for him either. Nobody really cares. Y'all are conscionable utilizing him to marque him famous, to marque yourselves much famous, to marque yourselves look good.'

In the comments, galore viewers expressed heartfelt sympathy for Ashley Ann. 

'As a girl of an addict I consciousness this, and I'm truthful sorry,' 1 idiosyncratic wrote. 

'The symptom successful your dependable breaks my heart,' different spectator remarked. 

Other commenters agreed that portion immoderate influencers had selfish motives, Concannon had axenic intentions erstwhile helium archetypal started.  

'The archetypal feline Terrance was earnestly truing to assistance him. Then different radical got progressive and took it excessively far.' 

This week, 'Lieutenant Dan' launched his ain TikTok account, wherever helium chronicled his endurance connected his sailboat during Milton. He presently boasts implicit 270,000 followers.

Although Milton made landfall arsenic a Category 3 storm, it was aboriginal downgraded to Category 1. 

But savage winds were still capable to rip the cloth extortion implicit the location of baseball's Tampa Bay Rays to shreds.

Milton besides spawned astatine slightest 19 tornadoes, causing harm successful galore counties, and destroyed astir 125 homes, astir of them mobile homes.

As of Friday, much than 3 cardinal homes and businesses were without power. At slightest 18 radical are dormant successful Milton's aftermath.