Leanna Lenee, fiancee of Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter, is setting the record straight after social media users accused her of pissing him off for taking pictures with fans.
In a video posted on TikTok on Monday, December 16, Lenee defended herself against claims that she got angry with the 21-year-old Colorado Buffaloes star during his meet and greet at an Adidas pop-up event. The event was held at the brand’s flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York City on Saturday, December 14.
The gathering was followed by the Heisman Trophy ceremony.
“People say I’m like, ‘What should I do? Just sit here?’ “, she said in response to the viral clip that spread on social networks.
Heisman winner Travis Hunter defends fiancee Leanna Lenee after attack: ‘I feel the same pain as her’
According to Lenee, the internet misinterpreted the interaction.
“First of all, I didn’t say that,” she claimed.
She went on to say that the people were Hunter’s fans, but Adidas employees who were getting social media content with him after the event was over. She was simply trying to see what to do next after the event.
Travis Hunters with his fiancee Leanna Lanee.
Travis Hunter/Instagram
“I said, ‘Do you want me to sit here? Or do you want me to go with the family? Or do you want me to come with you?’ Because again, what you all don’t know from the seven-second clip is that it wasn’t fans, by the way, he already finished that part,” Lenee said in the TikTok, which is just under eight minutes long. .
His fiancee said she was there “the whole time, taking pictures, talking to them, everything.”
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“The lack of fans didn’t bother me at all. I never get annoyed by fans,” she continued. “So that was it.”
Lenee said as Hunter prepared to leave the store to head to his Heisman Trophy rehearsal, she wanted to know if she should go with him or stay with his family – who were in the store but shopping on different floors.
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Travis Hunter with fiancee Leanna Lenee.
Travis Hunter/Instagram
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She previously stated that Hunter gave her “permission” to respond to the backlash she faced. Fans accused her of getting mad at him for talking to cheerleaders at a football game, saying she wasn’t his type and didn’t stand up to cheer him on when he won the Heisman Trophy.
“The things I see people come up with are really crazy,” Lenee said on TikTok. “Because what happened didn’t happen and I just think people just find every little thing and try to make it something that it’s not.”
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Before Lenee posted her video, Hunter also made one of his own. He told viewers on Twitch that his fiancee had been drinking heavily and had cried herself to sleep after seeing offensive comments online.
“Y’all hate me, and then you’re all gonna hate my girlfriend. I feel the same pain she does,” Hunter said later in his video. “We are inseparable [sic]we are with each other. If it hurts her, of course it will hurt me.”
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