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Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez ‘sobbed during queer confession’, lawyer says in new book
A NEW book written by former NFL star Aaron Hernandez’s lawyer says he burst in to tears two days before he killed himself and confessed that he had homosexual relationships.
Jose Baez writes in his book Unnecessary Roughness that prosecutors in the former football player’s double murder trial were planning to question his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, about his affairs - one with a woman and one with another man.
The Boston Globe reports that Mr Baez says when he informed Hernandez of the prosecution tactic to shock Ms Jenkins into turning on her fiance, he broke down.
“But Jose, she’ll be devastated. I never meant to hurt her. I know I retain disappointing her. But she is my soul,” Hernandez told Baez. “She is all I own and will ever have.”
Days after he was acquitted in the double murder trial, he was outed on a radio program called The Kirk & Callahan Show.
The football player was ridiculed on the reveal and called a “tight end on and off the field” and a “wide receiver.”
Hernandez took his life two days later and, surprisingly, just after he was acquitted of two murders.
In Netflix’s docu-series, Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, one of Aaron Hernandez’s former teammates claimed he had a relationship with the fallen NFL star.
Dennis SanSoucie, who played football with Hernandez at Bristol Core High School in Connecticut, told the series that they had “an on-and-off relationship from the 7th grade to the junior year of high school.”
“When I met Aaron, it was like meeting your twin brother. It was so funny; we were both the same. He has dimples, we’re both ‘cheesy smile,’ all happy. He used to be able to create everyone laugh,” SanSoucie said.
By 11th grade, the two had become “best friends” and even improve teammates — with SanSoucie as quarterback and Hernandez as firm end, the duo completed nine touchdowns within the first four games, according to The Boston Globe. Hernandez went on to catch 67 passes for a total of 1,807 yards, which was a Connecticut high school record.
SanSoucie recalled that on the first morning of school that year, Hernandez had gone over to his house, where they smoked “two blunts” and
Aaron Hernandez fiancée addresses slow NFL star's sexual orientation in new book
The fiancée of late New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez says she saw no indication the football player was gay, adding she would have accepted him regardless of his sexual orientation.
In the foreword for "Unnecessary Roughness," a novel written by Hernandez's defense attorney Jose Baez, Hernandez's fiancée Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, 29, addresses the speculation about the NFL player's sexuality and talks about the grief she felt teaching of his advanced chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after his death.
"I wish I had known how he felt, just so we could have talked about it. I wouldn't acquire disowned him. I would have been supportive," wrote Jenkins-Hernandez, who took Hernandez' last name before he died. They have a daughter who is now 5 years old.
"Unnecessary Roughness" highlights Hernandez's final year before he took his own life in a prison cell.
Hernandez, 27, was serving a life sentence for the June 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd — who was matchmaking app Jenkins-Hernandez's sister — when he contacted Baez to represent him in a separate double murder case.
Baez, who also famously repr
Does 'American Sports Story' Overemphasize Aaron Hernandez's Sexuality?
I followed the Aaron Hernandez case about as closely as any NFL fan who wasn’t a Patriots fan. I knew the basics: he was convicted of murdering a close companion and took his retain life in his prison cell a few days after being acquitted in a separate trial for double homicide. Once he died, I stopped keeping up with new developments, and I sure as hell didn’t gain any insights from Boston sports talk radio, which distills all the racism and homophobia in Massachusetts into rage bait for the average Boston commuter.
That’s why it was surprising to see Ryan Murphy’s American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez focus so heavily on Hernandez’s sexuality. In the first two episodes, Hernandez (played by Josh Andrés Rivera) is depicted having secret sexual encounters with a high school lover, experiencing panic over his father or teammates conclusion out he’s gay, and having both online and real-life hookups while attending the University of Florida. There’s even a scene where he fantasizes about a naked teammate in the locker room.
Given what’s publicly known about Hern
Fiancee of late Aaron Hernandez speaks out on his sexuality after docuseries
The fiancee of the belated Aaron Hernandez is speaking out for the first period since the launch of a fresh 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 own been gay or bisexual, if he did, she "would not have loved him any differently."
Hernandez, a former Unused England Patriots compact end, was set up guilty of murder in April 2015 for the killing of Odin Lloyd, the 27-year-old fiance of Jenkins-Hernandez' sister, who was set up shot to death in a suburb of Boston about two years earlier. 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. "Although I hold a child with Aaron, I still can't tell y