'Walking Bets' Girl Taylor Mathis Speaks: 'I Honestly Want to Kill Myself'
24 hours after locking her X account, the "Walking Bets" Girl, Taylor Mathis has responding to accusations lodged against her.
Mathis has worked on behalf of DraftKings in recent months but speculation emerged that she and the US betting company may have parted ways.
Mathis it seems got herself entangled in a crypto controversy of sorts.
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From Awful Announcing:
Essentially, fans of Mathis made the $TAYLOR token based off her likeness, and she agreed to promote it in exchange for 20 million tokens, two percent of its total supply. She started promoting it on her X account (which has more than 200,000 followers) last week, leading to it reaching a $6 million market cap Saturday (which would have her stake worth an estimated $120,000).
Mathis sold her stake for 95 SOL (another cryptocurrency, with 95 tokens currently worth just over $16,000). She then sent messages saying she didn’t want to be involved in $TAYLOR any more. She posted on X that crypto wasn’t for her and that she would donate the money to charity. But her account then bought 34 million $TAYLOR tokens at a new low price of $9,000 (giving her almost 1.5 times her initial stake and a $7,000 profit), and she promoted that she was back in on the coin. That led to yet more people questioning if she was illegally manipulating the market, and to them tagging DraftKings, and to her locking down her account and removing DraftKings references from it.
Mathis, who made a name for herself by presenting picks while walking and exposing her cleavage, said late Friday night that her "whole life is ruined".
She revealed: "I only reluctantly even 'played along' because they hacked my iCloud and threatened me and my family posting our home addresses sending videos with guns etc if I didn’t do things."
Taylor appeared to be in total despair by late Friday.
"I honestly have never been in such a dark place in my life, I honestly want to kill myself. I have made no oney (sic) off of this and all the false information out there is disgusting. I don't know how people do this to people."
A follower by the name of Chelly reached out to offer support.
"jesus christ taylor, pls dont say this. theres a lot more to life than to let the internet trolls win. what you did was very naiive (sic) and people make mistakes, put the phone down and take some time to yourself."
Mathis promised a video upcoming where she will go into more in depth detail as to what transpired.
Andrew Kleopa also supported the notion that Mathis may have been an unwitting participant in the whole crypto scheme.
"As far as the crypto thing, you had no idea what you were doing or getting into. You didn’t plan some pump and dump scheme. I could see by comments on your page, you reluctantly agreed to play along with no understanding of what was going on. It’s not your fault, don’t worry!"
Some were not so kind.
"Hawk Tuah girl lasted longer than Taylor Mathis and #WalkingBets with DraftKing."
Mathis went on to claim she did not give consent to be turned into a digital coin.
It's not immediately known if DraftKings and Mathis have officially parted ways.
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