Leanna Lenee, the fiancée of Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter, is setting the document straight after social media customers accused her of being irritated at him for taking footage with followers.
In a video posted to TikTok on Monday, Dec. 16, Lenee defended herself towards claims that she turned upset with the 21-year-old Colorado Buffaloes star throughout his meet-and-greet at an Adidas pop-up occasion. The occasion was held on the model’s flagship retailer on fifth Avenue in New York Metropolis on Saturday, Dec. 14.
The gathering was adopted by the Heisman Trophy ceremony.
“Individuals are saying that I’m like, ‘What am I speculated to do? Simply sit right here?’ ” she stated in response to a viral clip making its rounds on social media.
In line with Lenee, the web misinterpret the interplay.
“That’s not what I stated, to start with,” she claimed.
She went on to say that the individuals had been Hunter’s followers, however staff of Adidas who had been getting social media content material with him after the occasion ended. She was merely making an attempt to see what to do subsequent after the occasion.
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“I stated, ‘Would you like me to sit down right here? Or would you like me to go along with the household? Or would you like me to come back with you?’ As a result of once more, what y’all don’t know off of a seven-second clip, is these weren’t followers, by the best way, he had already completed that half,” Lenee stated within the TikTok, which lasts slightly below eight minutes.
His fiancée stated she had been there “your complete time, taking footage, speaking to them, the whole lot.”
“I wasn’t irritated with no followers, in any respect. I’m by no means irritated with followers,” she continued. “In order that’s what that was.”
Lenee stated as Hunter was about to depart the shop to move to his Heisman Trophy rehearsal, she wished to know if she ought to go along with him, or keep together with his household — who had been on the retailer, however buying on completely different flooring.
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She beforehand said that Hunter gave her “permission” to answer the backlash she’s confronted. Followers have accused her of getting upset with him for speaking to cheerleaders at a soccer sport, saying she was not his sort and never standing as much as cheer him on when he was awarded the Heisman Trophy.
“The issues that I see individuals make up is actually loopy,” Lenee stated on TikTok. “As a result of it’s not what occurred, and I simply suppose individuals are simply discovering each single little factor and making an attempt to make it one thing it’s not.”
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Earlier than Lenee posted her video, Hunter additionally made considered one of his personal. He told viewers on Twitch that his fiancée drank a variety of alcohol and cried herself to sleep after seeing the hurtful feedback on-line.
“Y’all hate on me after which y’all go hate on my woman. I really feel the identical ache that she really feel,” Hunter stated later in his video. “We’re unseperable [sic], we’re with one another. If she hurting, after all I’ll be hurting.”
