Shaq offers Hawk Tuah girl \u201cgracious\u201d life advice after partying together Instagram: HaileywelchofficialNBA legend Shaquille O\u2019Neal gave the viral Hawk Tuah girl, Hailey Welch, advice on \u201chow to deal with fame\u201d after partying in Nashville together. Tennessee woman Hailey Welch has taken her newfound fame in stride after becoming an overnight internet sensation by coining the viral catchphrase \u201chawk tuah\u201d during a street interview. She has since made a fortune selling merch, sung on stage with country music star Zach Bryan, and revealed plans for starting her own show. But not everything has been sunshine and rainbows. Hailey previously called out \u201ccreepy\u201d fake social media accounts and revealed she\u2019s received \u201chateful comments\u201d online. While partying in Nashville, however, the Tennessee celebrity met Shaq, who shared advice on navigating stardom. Sources told TMZ that Shaq had his team reach out to the newfound influencer after her appearance with Zach on stage. Hailey was then invited to join Shaq at his DJ gig at Bon Jovi\u2019s place, which is where the two connected. Not only did the two groove together behind the DJ booth \u2013 with Hailey causing the crowd to erupt after recreating her signature \u201cHawk Tuah\u201d \u2013 but Shaq also took the opportunity to get candid. The former NBA star advised Hailey to \u201ckeep a smart team around\u201d to avoid being taken advantage of and give \u201cno mind\u201d to haters who didn\u2019t actually know her. Hailey\u2019s reps later told Page Six that Shaq was \u201cextremely gracious, personable, and caring\u201d as he \u2018realized\u2019 she was \u201cdealing with a lot of unnecessary hate.\u201d They went on to dub Shaq as \u201cpart of the \u2018Protecting the Hawk from the Vultures\u2019 squad\u201d, with Hailey allegedly now considering him a \u201cfriend and someone who truly cares about her.\u201d Hailey later posted a photo with Shaq on her Instagram account, writing that he was teaching her to \u201cshoot\u201d in the caption and that \u201chis accuracy is as elusive as a rare remix.\u201d In another post, she dubbed the NBA legend \u201cthe Big Diesel\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shaq offers Hawk Tuah girl \u201cgracious\u201d life advice after partying together Instagram: HaileywelchofficialNBA legend Shaquille O\u2019Neal gave the viral Hawk Tuah girl, Hailey Welch, advice on \u201chow to deal with fame\u201d after partying in Nashville together. Tennessee woman Hailey Welch has taken her newfound fame in stride after becoming an overnight internet sensation by coining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}