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*In Oxygen’s “Aaron Hernandez Uncovered,” a former girlfriend and one of his attorneys both allege he struggled with his sexuality and that Aaron himself had suggested he was gay.
The former Patriots star was convicted in the 2013 murder of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. In the 11 months since the 27-year-old hanged himself in prison, there have been unconfirmed rumors about his sexuality and this new documentary aims to ignite the conversation once more.
Alyssa Anderson, who dated Hernandez while they attended the University of Florida, claims they reconnected years after splitting when she heard he was arrested in connection with the murder of Lloyd. They communicated through letters, in which Hernandez allegedly opened up to her.
“He admitted to being molested as a kid,” Anderson said. “But he never dealt with it. It led to issues in his sexuality.”
Anderson alluded to Hernandez having a relationship with a man in college, though she did not speak explicitly.
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In Sunday’s second installment of “Aaron Hernandez Uncovered,” Hernandez’s attorneys said their client was “very concerned” that his sexuality might be discussed in court.
“His biggest concern about his sexuality was how it would impact [Hernandez’s fiancee] Shayanna [Jenkins] and somehow diminish — in her eyes — the tremendous love that he felt for her. Here’s a man who happened to be gay who loved a woman,” attorney George Leontire said in “Aaron Hernandez Uncovered.”
Jenkins confirmed that another of Hernandez’s lawyers, Jose Baez, told her that Hernandez’s sexuality might be raised by prosecutors during his trial on charges he killed two men in a 2012 drive-by shooting.
“Jose speaking to me about Aaron’s sexuality was very hard because I was confused. I still kind of am,” Jenkins said. “When you feel like you’ve kind of had it all with that one individual, it’s just something that took years to build, and now it’s completely breaking down. But I would not want him to go through anything by himself. I was the only thing that he had. Hurt or not — and I was hurt — I had to fight through it.”
In the end, prosecutors backed off their threat to use the issue of Hernandez’s sexuality, and the former Pats star was acquitted of the two murders in April 2017.
Leontire said in the docuseries that he’d spoken to Hernandez about his sexuality.
“This man clearly was gay,” Leontire said. “Acknowledged the immense pain that it caused him. I think that he also came out of a culture that was so negative about gay people that he exhibited some self-hatred.”
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