Flavor Flav (left); Veronica Fraley.Photo:Neilson Barnard/Getty; Christian Petersen/Getty
Neilson Barnard/Getty; Christian Petersen/Getty
Flavor Flavknows that in life, “everybody needs a little helping hand sometimes.”
In conversation with PEOPLE discussing his partnership with Smartfood to spread positivity via the brand’s new “Flavor You Can Feel Good About” campaign, the artist, 65, opens up about another moment of positivity and kindness he was a part of recently:helping pay the rent of Olympian Veronica Fraley.
Veronica Fraley.Christian Petersen/Getty
Christian Petersen/Getty
In swift response, Flavor Flav took to the platform andwrote, “I gotchu … DM me and I’ll send payment TODAY so you don’t have to worry bout it TOMORROW … and imma be rooting for ya tomorrow LETZ GO!!!”
Ohanian later confirmed that he sent Fraley $7,760 on behalf of himself and Flavor Flav in a screenshot shared onX.
Although Flavor Flav admits to PEOPLE he hasn’t “even met her yet” in-person, he was still moved to offer some help to the athlete in her time of need, much likehe did for the U.S. women’s water polo team.
Flavor Flav.Mike Lawrie/Getty
Mike Lawrie/Getty
“I’m looking forward to seeing her and meeting her one day,” he maintains. “But my main thing was, I mean this girl is out there … putting her heart and soul into trying to reach her goals and her dreams … and little hiccups like that can prevent that, that could stop her in her flow. So I didn’t want that girl’s flow to be stopped. She was on a roll. She was on a roll.”
“And I didn’t want to see that be disturbed,” he continues. “My thing is this, if you can be the person to help out someone, why not? And everything that I’ve done for people, I look for nothing back, man. The only thing I look for back is for them just to be successful, you know what I’m saying? And to move on with their life.”
Flavor Flav notes that his “intention is good. So I help people out from the bottom of my heart.”
source: people.com