Exploring Aaron Hernandez's Sexuality
Aaron Hernandez's former fiancée comments on his sexuality in the wake of a recent docuseries
Subsequent to the debut of a recent Netflix docuseries, which explored the life of the football sensation-turned-convicted murderer, Aaron Hernandez's fiancée has, for the first time, chosen to address the subject, particularly concerning the widespread conjectures about his sexuality.
During a one-on-one discussion with ABC News' Amy Robach, slated for broadcast this Wednesday on "Good Morning America," Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez disclosed that although Hernandez never indicated to her, in any manner, that he might be gay or bisexual, had he done so, her affection for him "would not have varied in the slightest."
Hernandez, a one-time tight end for the New England Patriots, received a murder conviction in April 2015, stemming from the slaying of Odin Lloyd, who was 27 years old and the betrothed of Jenkins-Hernandez's sister, discovered deceased by gunshot in a Boston suburb roughly two years beforehand. Subsequent to Hernandez's legal proceedings, and preceding his self-inflicted death within his correctional facility cell during 2017, his supposed romantic connections with other males emerged as a prominent subject for public discourse.
"One is unable to characterize an individual's sexual orientation in their absence," Jenkins-Hernandez conveyed to ABC News. "Despite the fact that Aaron and I share a child, I remain incapable of articulating his innermost sentiments. Indeed, no one possesses that ability."
The Netflix docuseries titled "Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez," initially launched in January, featured an interview with Dennis Sansoucie, a former high school teammate and confidant of Hernandez, who asserted that the pair had engaged in a sexual liaison during their high school years.
Jenkins-Hernandez indicated that, while she was aware of Sansoucie's existence, her acquaintance with him was not extensive, and he played a minimal role in Hernandez's life as an adult.
Nevertheless, with tears in her eyes, she expressed, "One begins to empathize with individuals who might be concealing their true inner sentiments. And I - I truly regret that state of affairs."
Jenkins-Hernandez, who had been betrothed to Hernandez when he died by suicide and is the mother of their shared daughter, affirmed that he was "unquestionably a man in her eyes. No particular conduct of his ever led her to surmise otherwise."
She expressed a desire that had Hernandez been concealing his sexual orientation, he would have confided in her.
"Should he have harbored such sentiments or felt such an inclination, my desire is that I - I had been informed," articulated Jenkins-Hernandez. "Furthermore, I truly wish that he - you know, he would have disclosed it to me because I would not - I absolutely would not have cherished him any less. Comprehension would have been my response. There is no ignominy in this, and I do not believe anyone ought to feel disgraced by their intrinsic identity, irrespective of whom they adore. To my mind, it represents something truly splendid; I merely lament my inability to convey that to him."