Hernandez was gay
The Killer Inside Director Explains How the Netflix Documentary Explored Aaron Hernandez's Sexuality
Somehow, the filmmakers behind Netflix’s Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, obtained most of the late Patriots close end's calls from the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center—which is where he was detained after being convicted for the murder of Odin Lloyd in 2015.
Killer Inside spreads the calls throughout the documentary's three episodes, from asking his wife to send him "Harry Potters" and saying goodnight to his daughter, to yelling at his estranged mother because he felt favor she hurt their family and wanted too much of his money. The calls give us our fullest stare at Hernandez yet—a guy who could joke about how Nike wouldn't lay a swoosh on an orange prison jumpsuit, even after the crime he committed.
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The new Netflix documentary, which is on hand to stream today, revisits the Lloyd murder, as skillfully as Hernandez's alleged involvement in the 2012 double homicide of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado over a spilled drink. (He was found not guilty.) And, of course, what doctors found after Hernandez died of suicide in 2
Former New England Patriots tight terminate Aaron Hernandez was sexually abused when he was a youngster, his brother told CBS station WBZ-TV. Jonathan Hernandez also told the station that his father would beat him and his brother and that Aaron Hernandez was gay.
The former NFL luminary died by suicide in a Massachusetts prison in 2017. The 27-year-old was serving a existence sentence for the 2013 murder of semi-pro linebacker Odin Lloyd.
When Aaron Hernandez was 6 years old, he was sexually abused by an older boy, Jonathan Hernandez told WBZ-TV. Aaron Hernandez didn't report the abuse.
"We were brought up in the meaning that seeking help was fragile and, you know, crying was weak," Jonathan Hernandez told WBZ-TV. He also said that their father would beat them for spilling cereal.
When the brothers got older, Hernandez said that their father got them into sports and became their biggest supporter before he died. "It was all we knew," Jonathan Hernandez told WBZ-TV. "You know, that was our dad. You recognize, I love him now. I love him. We love him."
Hernandez said that their father didn't approve of homosexuality and that Aaron Hernandez kept it a secret that he was homosexual. "You could kind of notice what
Hernandez was drafted to play as a tight end for the Patriots in 2010; in Killer Inside, one of the more compelling insights about that (somewhat rocky) transition into the NFL comes from former Patriots player Ryan O’Callaghan, who came out as same-sex attracted in 2017. He points out that football is an almost perfect hiding place for many gay men. “My beard was football,” he says. “I relied on all the stereotypes of a football player — a lot of testosterone and the aggressiveness, hitting each other, things you assume middle America wouldn't consider of as lgbtq+ men.”
Playing for the Patriots “was the best possible situation I could contain ended up in,” says O’Callaghan, because "there's no distraction. There's just an extreme focus on winning and nothing else really flies there — and for a closeted guy, that's great."
Hernandez excelled on the field but stayed away from building relationships with other Patriots players off the field. (Even in the later conversations in prison included in the documentary, he only talks to former University of Florida teammates.) Killer Inside — like the prosecutors at Hernandez’s murder trials — can’t answer exactly what prompted his crimes after he join
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 occasion 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 atmosphere Wednesday on "Good Morning America," Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez said that while Hernandez did not express to her in any way he may have been lgbtq+ or bisexual, if he did, she "would not have loved him any differently."
Hernandez, a former Recent England Patriots tight close, 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. 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 have a minor with Aaron, I still can't tell y