Creators Behind Haliey Welch's Viral 'Hawk Tuah' Interview Share Their Side of the Story Amid Backlash

Mar. 15, 2025

“That’snothow that happened,” said Dee. His co-host, Tim, agreed, “She most definitely walked across the street. We were minding our business. It was at the end of the night. I had the camera in my hand, we were looking at clips. We was like, ‘Man, do we have enough?'”

Dee continued to explain that Welch and her friend Chelsea Bradford came over, saw the camera and “tried to see what’s up.” The duo also debunked theTalk Tuahpodcast creator’s claim that she didn’t expect the video of her to go online. Tim and Dee clarified that before they record anyone on camera, they let them know it’s for YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, and they even showed footage of Welch and her friend asking for their social media handles that same night.

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Haliey Welch and Chelsea Bradford.Michael Tullberg/Getty

Michael Tullberg/Getty

They moved on to say they weren’t the ones to think up a sex-related question to ask the women and showed footage of Bradford requesting “a spicy one.”

“What I’m not going to put up with, bro, is y’all trying to treat us and call us predators,” Dee noted regarding claims that they purposefully approach intoxicated people for their videos. “We don’t stand outside the bars preying on drunk women.”

In an interview clip shown during the 40-minute YouTube tell-all, Welch said she asked for the video to be taken down. Tim and Dee explained that they normally adhere to people’s requests to have their clips removed from social media, but Welch asked for the original “Hawk Tuah” video to be removed five days after it went live, after it had reached 9 million viewers on their account and circulated the internet as a meme.

Additionally, despite generally speaking negatively of Tim and Dee in interviews, the duo showed screenshots of both Welch and Bradford requesting they come on theTalk Tuahpodcast.

Reps for Welch didn’t respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Hailey Welch.Michael Tullberg/Getty

The duo first teased the tell-all ahead of the holiday weekend, alongside a clip of Welch. “The story you THINK you know, Its our turn now,“the post shared on X read.

“If I sued it would be public but I guess clout is being chased 🤣,” she wrote in herpostand also added that people shouldn’t  “believe everything you read on the internet 🫵😹.”

Haliey Welch.Michael Tullberg/Getty

Welch first went viral in June after she was featured in Tim & Dee’s man-on-the-street interview, where she gave her quirky sex tip in response to one of their questions. She was then penned “Hawk Tuah Girl” online.

In September, Welch toldPEOPLEthat she “hid for two weeks” after her response went viral and that the creators “blocked her” after she and her friends messaged them to stop posting their follow-up videos from the interview.

“My friends all reached out [to me] and was like, ‘Message him and ask him, quit posting them. You can leave the one you had all the views and stuff on, the first one,’ " she recalled. “But he ended up blocking all of us and he didn’t acknowledge any of us when we asked, ‘Just stop posting more.’ "

Welch added that the creators did try to reach out to her after she went viral, but she revealed she didn’t want to talk to them after they weren’t “kind” to her when she rose to fame,” adding, “I don’t have any time of day for him.”

source: people.com