There was no behavior that made me think differently.” She added, “If he did feel that way or if he felt the urge, I wish that I — I was told… I would not have loved him any differently. I think it's a beautiful thing, I just wish I was able to tell him that."
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Was Aaron Hernandez Gay or Bisexual?
It was back in 2013 when everything turned upside down for NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez as he was arrested for the homicide of his friend and fiancée’s sister’s boyfriend, Odin Lloyd.
Though there wasn’t a direct motive revealed during the case, many authorities believed that Odin Lloyd may have been aware of Hernandez’s sexuality.
Was Aaron Hernandez gay in real life? I think it’s a beautiful thing, I just wish I was able to tell him that.”
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I can say this: Aaron was very much a man to me.
"And I wish that he -- you know, he would've told me 'cause I wouldn't -- I would not have loved him any differently. As if this is not enough, she also said in an interview with ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ that she doesn’t really like answering any questions about this matter because Aaron himself is not there.
“You can’t describe someone’s sexuality without them being here,” Shayanna said.
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Fiancee of late Aaron Hernandez speaks out on his sexuality after docuseries
The fiancee of the late Aaron Hernandez is speaking out for the first time since the release of a new Netflix docuseries on the life of the football-star turned-convicted killer, including rumors about his sexuality.
In a sit-down interview with ABC News' Amy Robach that will air Wednesday on "Good Morning America," Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez said that while Hernandez did not express to her in any way he may have been gay or bisexual, if he did, she "would not have loved him any differently."
Hernandez, a former New England Patriots tight end, was found guilty of murder in April 2015 for the killing of Odin Lloyd, the 27-year-old fiance of Jenkins-Hernandez' sister, who was found shot to death in a suburb of Boston about two years earlier.
I just wish I was able to tell him that.”
His brother DJ “Jonathan” Hernandez talked to Dr. Oz about how his brother might have potentially came out as gay to his mother before his suicide. I would have understood. “This man clearly was gay,” the lawyer, who is also gay, said.
It's not shameful and I don't think anybody should be ashamed of who they are inside, regardless of who they love. “[Aaron’s] like, ‘Mom, you’re going die never knowing your son,'” he told Dr. Oz in 2020. I saw no indication that he was gay or homosexual.”
She also made a statement in an interview with ABC News after the release of the Netflix series Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez which speculated about his sexuality during the case.
It’s not shameful and I don’t think anybody should be ashamed of who they are inside, regardless of who they love. After Hernandez's trial, and prior to his suicide in his prison cell in 2017, his alleged relationships with men became a topic of discussion.
"You can't describe someone's sexuality without them being here," Jenkins-Hernandez told ABC News.
“Then all of a sudden they have this conversation, and they’re both flooded with tears across from each other.”
A member of Aaron’s defense team George Leontire also claimed that the football player was gay. “Acknowledged. No one can.”
She adds, “If he did feel that way, or if he felt the urge, I wish that I was told.
However, in the days leading up to his demise while serving his life sentence at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, he allegedly came out as gay for the very first time to his mother.
According to records, George Leontire, Aaron’s openly gay attorney, knew from early on that his client was also a part of the community and could see that it, unfortunately, caused him “immense pain.” That’s because he not only grew up surrounded by an anti-gay culture but also believed he turned gay owing to the intense sexual abuse he endured as a child, starting when he was 6.
[He was] certainly a man to me. It’s not shameful and I don’t think anybody should feel shameful of who they are inside, regardless of who they love.