Travis Hunter mentioned his fiancée Leanna Lenee acquired drunk and cried herself to sleep after she confronted criticism following his Heisman Trophy victory on Saturday evening.
Some took subject with Lenee’s demeanor in a video that surfaced on-line, which confirmed her trying stoic on a sofa whereas Hunter, the two-way Colorado star, posed for pictures throughout a meet-and-greet with followers at his personal occasion.
At one level, the couple seemed to be having a critical dialog, nevertheless it’s unclear what was mentioned.
After the Heisman ceremony, Hunter despatched a stern message to critics and defined that Lenee felt harm.
“You ain’t never had no girl so why are y’all talking about me,” Hunter, a large receiver and cornerback for the Buffaloes, mentioned in a livestream on Twitch. “Discover another person to speak about… Go speak about your woman. Go discover a woman. Go discover a life. Cease worrying about what I acquired happening. I do know what I acquired.
“My girl been with me for five years. y’all are just now starting to talk about me… y’all go do something else with y’all life. Clickbait pages stop, y’all better stop I’m telling y’all. Something bad is gonna happen to y’all [if you] keep doing that. Y’all better stop that. I ain’t playing.”
Hunter went on to clarify that within the viral video — by which followers claimed Lenee seemed depressing — he and Lenee have been speaking about his household and coordinating the place they have been going to go that evening.
“Y’all hate on me then you go hate on my girl,” he mentioned. “I feel the same thing that she feels. We’re inseparable. We’re with each other. If she’s hurting I’m hurting [and vice versa]… she’s still sleeping. She’s lump. You know when you’re hurt you just cry yourself to sleep and you be gone. She’s drunk OD amount tonight for no reason.”
Hunter, who’s presumably the No. 1 general decide within the 2025 NFL Draft, inspired individuals to ship Lenee constructive messages
“I don’t want her to go to sleep sad,” Hunter mentioned. “It’s hard on my because I can’t even help her.”
Hunter and Lenee revealed their engagement in February after going public with their relationship in 2022.
He thanked his fiancée in his Heisman Trophy speech.
“I never thought I’d be in this position,” Hunter mentioned, based on NFL.com. “It’s crazy. Your belief will take you a long way. It’s actually crazy, man. Thank you, thank you, thank you. First, I want to thank my fiancée and my mother. They’ve been with me since the first time I had surgery my first year of college. They never took a step away from me. All the hard hours. All the hard days. All the times I didn’t want to wake up and even get on my phone, look at football, y’all stayed with me. I’m very thankful for y’all.”
One other video on Sunday confirmed Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders showing to inform Lenee to face and applaud Hunter when he was introduced the Heisman winner.
Lenee’s Instagram profile has since been modified to personal.
That wasn’t the primary time followers put a highlight on the couple’s relationship.
Originally of December, one other video confirmed Lenee showing upset with Hunter after his stellar efficiency in Colorado’s 52-0 rout of Oklahoma State in its regular-season finale.
Lenee addressed it on her Instagram and defined that second was taken out of context.
“These pics were taken 30 seconds after that clip by the way. Pls remember that social media is not real, and 5 seconds is not enough to understand a situation,” Lenee wrote, based on the Each day Mail. “You also never know what a person can handle mentally. Thank you baby for always trying to cheer me up. You truly are the greatest partner a girl could ever ask for.”
Hunter beat out Boise State operating again Ashton Jeanty, Miami quarterback Cam Ward and Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel for school soccer’s most prestigious honor on Saturday.
Hunter completed the common season with 92 receptions for 1,152 yards and 14 touchdowns.
Hunter is anticipated to play within the Alamo Bowl in opposition to BYU earlier than being one of many prime picks within the 2025 NFL Draft.
