Utah State cheerleader caught crying... twice... on TV explains what it's been like since going viral across the world.
As time ran down Thursday on the Aggies first-round NCAA tournament loss to Missouri, television cameras panned to Ashlyn Whimpey with tears in her eyes.Soon, Whimpey became an international sensation as the crying cheerleader.
"It kind of all just hit me at once that I was really, this is my last time to be able to even be doing this," Whimpey, who is currently applying to nursing programs, said."I had good reason to be crying, there were a lot of emotions!" "As soon as I walked off the court and went back to our locker room, I looked at my phone and my mom had texted a picture of me on TV," she shared."And I literally, my first thing I responded, I said the TV people hate me!"Well... kind of.
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