More bombshell news in the tragic Aaron Hernandez story.
Just to recap: The former Patriots star was found dead in his prison cell last Wednesday. The cause of death was ruled a suicide (asphyxia by hanging). It was reported he left behind three suicide notes: One of the letters was purportedly to his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez. The other was to their 4-year-old daughter, Avielle. And the third was to his jailhouse lover.
Now, the Daily Mail reports that 22-year-old Kyle Kennedy was 27-year-old Hernandez’s jailhouse lover.
Kennedy is currently serving 3-5 years for armed robbery. According to the report, his family was gifted a $50,000 watch by Hernandez the day before he hanged himself in his cell last week.
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After the suicide, Kennedy was put on suicide watch; however, his attorney, Larry Army Jr., says he has since been removed from the protective unit.
“My client is obviously saddened by the loss of his friend, Aaron Hernandez,” Army said in a statement. He added, “My client is no longer on suicide watch. The decision to move him to a protective unit was a standard precaution, but my client did not and has not exhibited any dangerous or risky behavior as a result of this situation.”
But in an exclusive interview with In Touch, Hernandez’s cousin, Davina Hernandez, says the former NFLer never mentioned anything about Kennedy to her, though she admits she doesn’t know exactly what his sexual orientation was.
“He’s definitely never made any mention of [having a lover in prison],” she says. “No, he would just always say, ‘I’m fine.’ He would always say he kept to himself so I don’t really know how true that is or if he just wanted us to know that he was OK. I don’t know.”
And as for the multiple suicide notes he left behind, including one rumored to be for Kennedy, Hernandez wouldn’t confirm or deny those reports.
“The original information that the family was given was that there was no letters,” Hernandez explains to the magazine. “How does that change so quickly to being three letters and then change again to who the letters were to?”
Army says that, if there is a letter, it has not yet been given to Kennedy.
“Neither I, nor my client, have seen the letter. We will be requesting that the letter be turned over to my client as soon as possible.”
Hernandez adds that she’s still processing everything and isn’t yet sure “what to think” about it all.
“I do still feel that it’s shocking that this happened,” she says. “It’s just really hard to process. I don’t know what to believe at this point.”
However, one thing, she says, is certain.
“At this point, it would best if people just let him rest in peace.”
Hernandez was laid to rest on Monday in his hometown of Bristol, Connecticut.
Related: Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez reportedly left a suicide note for his gay prison lover
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
Please keep talking about this. It’s important and the only motive mentioned, as the motive had remained a mystery throughout the entire case – which I followed. The sprinkled drink motive was the only thing prosecutors had.
There are a lot of homophobic gay and straight people trying to bury this story and erase BISEXUAL from this story. Hiding and concealing evidence with regards to this. Don’t let them, Queerty.
Roan
“The family was gifted a $50,000 watch….” The Daily Mail story lacks the details of how that happened.
ErikO
I don’t care if Aaron Hernandez was bisexual or even gay. He’s a thug and trash, and it’s not surprising he was murdered or KHS in prison.
Mo Bro
Good riddance to bad rubbish, as my wise old grandmother says.
Orgoglio Masch
He was pretty rubbish though. I also doubt this was his “jailhouse lover”. Hernandez was a chocolate chaser. He goes to jail – where there’s certainly no shortage of chocolate – and goes for the meth-faced trailer trash? Just doesn’t add up.
Captain Obvious
How about you stop referring to black men as “chocolate”. It’s not cute and makes you sound like a bigot.
Prax07
Sad thing is I can totally see my ex in Kyle. My ex was sexually assaulted in prison at 18 or 19, and that really screwed with his mental state. I met him years after he got out of prison but the longer I was with him the more I could see his mental issues. He claimed to be bi, but that was just a result of his experience in prison. In reality I think he was a straight boy that occasionally needed a man like a baby needs a security blanket, not actually bi at all.
ErikO
Your ex is bisexual. No guy that’s heterosexual/straight even if he was raped or sexually assaulted does not “occasionally need a man like a baby needs a security blanket”.
ErikO
Oh wait, nevermind you’re the biphobic hypocritical troll here that’s a total hypocrite that hates bisexual men.
rephello
Think what you will about Aaron. Since I first laid eyes on him, I could feel his ambiguity about his manhood / masculinity. He did foolish things like most men trying to figure themselves out, and he foolishly went to the point of killing if the courts are to be believed. I had a man-crush on him for years and I was totally unsurprised that he had a lover in prison. In fact I was totally jealous. I could have rented an apartment in one of his dimples and lived happily ever after. My heart goes out to you Aaron Hernandez. We all hope to do better next time around. Godspeed.
jamih
LOL, why are the American gays so sad excuses for human beings. This is ridiculous.
GayEGO
Football jocks like Hernandez were never my type as they seem to have various problems related to their manhood i.e. bullying, extra sexual activity, etc. Children need to be taught at a much earlier age that this is unacceptable and that true emotional relationships between two genders is much more acceptable.
ErikO
Way to stereotype all jocks/football players. The majority or even most are not like this.
I have zero issues with what two or more consenting adults do sexually; but you seem to have major issues and hang ups with this.
batesmotel
Friends with a number of “jocks” as you call them and have noticed nothing questionable in behavior about them. In fact, they’re the most loyal and dedicated men I know. They’ve never bullied and no unusual sexual activity either. I think you’re stereotyping the way some of us tend to stereotype the more flamboyant men who are into fashion and hook ups.
Prax07
Yeah, I really doubt my ex is actually bi. He obsessively needs women, and the only time he’d actively want intimacy, not sex necessarily, but to be held, petted, fawned over, to be told he’s special, was when things in his life became overly stressful, or his females were fighting with him, or he was stoned. Friends I’ve talked in detail about him with call it Prison Bi.
ErikO
Dude nobody cares about your bisexual ex that you never got over decades or years later; but it’s obvious that you are a hypocritical bigot that hates bisexual men, and biphobia is just as bad as homophobia is if not worse.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Why can’t idiots wait till all the facts are in before making their mind up on either side… as well as the usual projecting their pseudo-psychological claptrap and projection which has no bearing whatsoever to the facts
Black Pegasus
@Prince
Because that’s not how the internet works.
Uppity
This is definitely the most interesting gay story of the month, for multiple reasons. Was Hernandez’s closeted sexual orientation the real reason he went off the rails, and not the death of his father at 16? Did he feel he needed to prove his masculinity by being a thug? The Daily Mail’s coverage has been comprehensive and excellent, but its largely conservative readership is clearly uncomfortable with the level of disclosure, if the comments section is anything to go by. There’s a great book and movie here. I definitely want to know more.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
This is all just rumors. Don’t complain about Trump putting out fake news if you are going to do the same.
Donston
Here we go with the “Bisexual means what I want it to mean” debate. Yes, there are men who have sex with men who aren’t sexually attracted to men. And yes, spending much time in prison or having a “prison mentality” means you’re far more likely to develop megalomania/domination/deception fetishes, which means you’re far more likely to indulge bi behavior without actually being bisexual. I became aware of this even before doing research and even before coming out myself. Both a male cousin and a male friend are like this. One has had a long stretch in prison, one never went to prison. Neither claimed to have sexual attraction to men. However, they sometimes craved male attention and male worship and liked to dominate or be dominated by men, and they got off on keeping these things from other people. And considering that at the time I was a homo who craved female sexual and romantic attention to stabilize my ego I understood where they were coming from, though not the domination or getting off on secret-keeping part. Later on in life I realized that both seemed to occasionally get bored with women and sexually engaging with men was purely an act of narcissism, wanting to be wanted and finding people they could indulge their fetishes with. I never had sex with either of these dudes btw.
As much as clowns like ErikO like to shame others and twists definitions to fit his meaning people have sex with the people they have sex with for reasons that often extend beyond sexual attraction. And it’s not “bi-phobic” to admit this and examine this (although some of what Prax07 has said has been hateful, and once again, he seems to be speaking from the perspective of men on the DL not men who identify a bi). It seems like a lot of wannabe-bi-identifying people and people who just want “everyone embraced” put aside the psychological and social triggers that can be attached to sexual behavior. And legitimately bisexual people seem to get this and accept it, while the narcissists in denial or the naive try to claim bi behavior equates to bi orientation. Never has it been that way and never has that been the definition.
As far as Aaron, whatever was going on in his sex life in and out of prison, whatever his actual orientation was, we’ll never know. Whether gay, straight, bisexual, bisexual behaving for fetish/ego/comfort/image- the man was crazy and a likely murderer. That’s all we’ll ever truly know. Unless someone with first-hand knowledge speaks out about his struggles with his sexuality this is a non-story to me. Although, yes, the gay shame and homophobia that have followed these “reports” have been disappointing though not surprising.
ErikO
*yawn* you’re trolling on and on about how much you are a bigot, hypocrite, and hate bisexual people.
Donston
And you keep trolling on and on in your delusions. As much as people try to give you the truth and give you receipts in details on many topics you sit and pant like a kid who refuses to believe that 2+2 does not equal dinosaur.
The fact that you can’t even engage in conversation on this topic and quickly look to dismiss people who don’t believe bisexual equates to bi-behavior leads me to believe that you’re probably not bisexual but rather another basic homo who needs a bi-identity to retain some sense of masculinity and some attachment to the “straight world” or someone with megalomaniac/narcissistic fetishes yourself. Considering how you express yourself neither of those things would be surprising. If you do have a bisexual orientation I feel bad for “your people”.
Heywood Jablowme
@Donston:
Oh, ErikO has a LOT of issues – such as during the campaign he pretended to be a Jill Stein supporter and was always urging us to vote for Jill Stein… but as soon as Trump got in, ErikO was pro-Trump, always writing in a pro-Trump way, using the term “fake news” and all that b.s.
I doubt ErikO is bisexual. He’s probably just a paid Russian troll.
CaliKyle
Well said, Donston. Agree with you on all points made. Ignore the little yapper nipping at your ankles. He has nothing coherent or convincing to say on this topic apparently, just here to toss insults.
Donston
I’m aware that he rarely has anything to add to any discussion and that he’s his own special type of delusion. However, he does represent the lot of people who refuse to engage in conversation about how much of a role psychology, sociology, ego and fetish can play in people’s sexual behavior and identity. Also, he’s pretty easy to slap around, so I can’t help myself sometimes.
nickvanallen
people people!! for God sake #liveinyourtruth you’re NOT GONNA DIE!!
Terrycloth
Doesn’t really matter now that he’s dead…he probably couldon’t face life in prison for killing Oden Lloyd…even if he was aquitted of the other
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Truth getting even murkier
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/04/25/aaron-hernandez-lawyer-claims-of-suicide-note-to-prison-lover-are-false/
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
This from Hernandez lawyer., who claims the family is in possession of all 3 letters :
“[N]otwithstanding my unambiguous statement that there were no such letters, representatives, on behalf of an individual named Kyle Kennedy, continues to advise the media such a gay love letter exists. Accordingly, on behalf of the family of Aaron Hernandez, I am reaffirming, unequivocally, no such letter to Mr. Kennedy, or any other individual, in or out of prison, exists. l urge anyone continuing to spread these malicious untruths to cease immediately.”
Prax07
After my ex, yeah, I do indeed hate bi guys. I’ve known a bunch as friends and more, over the years, and every one was lying or cheating on someone.
This article however just resonated with me, bringing my ex back into my thoughts.
ErikO
Dude nobody cares about your bisexual ex that you never got over decades or years later; but it’s obvious that you are a hypocritical bigot that hates bisexual men, and biphobia is just as bad as homophobia is if not worse.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Ive seen some batshit people still claiming Omar Mateen was gay and it’s being covered because…. [insert tinfoil hat emoji]
Let’s wait for the full facts , folks.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
*Covered up
(And yes I mean you. Go back to your #3645 Datalounge thread on Aaron Rogers}
Donston
Some like to use tragedies for agenda purposes, which never sits well with me, especially since it’s all conjecture and coming from a “nameless source”. If it turns out Aaron indulged frequent gay behavior we’ll still likely never know his orientation. And if he was gay or bi what that had to do with the murders or any real details about his sex/romantic life. And ultimately, I have a hard time caring in general.
Oh, the Datalounge. I’ve glanced at that place a few times and each time cringed with despair. Just a place for self-loathing/hetero-worshiping homos and gossip queens.
Leoncefalo
This is my once a month visit to this site. It seems we have Dr. Freud, Dr. Adler, Masters and Johnson, and maybe even Jeffrey Dahmer holding court here over the Aaron Hernandez suicide.
Maybe Mr. Hernandez was ultimately overcome by guilt in his killing of Lloyd.
We will never know the answer to that.
Maybe he was protecting his family by saving them from a wrongful death civil suit.
We do know now that he can’t be sued anymore by anyone.
Maybe Mr. Hernandez did have ego and man issues. Unless these directly caused
him to kill Oden Lloyd, they are moot questions now anyway.
Maybe Mr. Hernandez was truly repentant for his murderous act, but could not live
with the consequence of it. That might explain his taking his own life.
We DO NOT KNOW what motivated Mr. Hernandez, and with his burial in
Conn. that secret was buried with him.
If Mr. Hernandez shared any intimacies with his lover Kyle Kennedy, he may be
the last person able to reveal the final months of Aaron’s life.
RIP Aaron – all of G-d’s creations are extremely complex individuals, and what we
make judgments and opinions on is based solely on appearances.
Donston
I get that hardly anyone is purely evil. There’s always a catalyst to horrible acts. There’s always an excuse to be a bad person. I’ve unfortunately known a lot of people who went to prison. I had a brief stay there myself. I’ve known people who killed. I’ve known people who did despicable things. And I’ve always had a “look deeper” instinct rather than a judgmental one. However, I just don’t get the fascination with this man or the desperate need some have to defend him.
SumSay
@Donston To put it simply, he wasn’t an an average run-of-the-mill criminal, he was a celebrity (a sports celebrity to be more specific) and that’s why people are fascinated by this. He had status and notoriety in the NFL. Most people can’t look past that, no matter what he’s done. People did the same for Michael Vick and OJ Simpson, remember? There was a time when you couldn’t go one day without hearing a story about them, until people stopped caring and you didn’t hear about them anymore.
Donston
I don’t why I said that. I completely understand the fascination, and the reaction to these “reports” are completely predictable. I just don’t care.
jhon_siders
One question I have Who was the top ???
frankcar1965
Me want to know too!!! I’d love to have seen Aaron plowed by a big one, moaning all the time.
Pete
While every other major national news outlet has reported on Hernandez Trade side, the Boston papers cannot bring themselves to print anything so dodgy about their beloved Cheaters! In fact, they’re treating the death of this sociopath like it’s the last scene of Hamlet!
DuMaurier
Well, Outsports attributes the Boston papers’ reticence to the story containing “Zero evidence. Zero proof. Zero context. Those are three reasons the vast majority of reputable news organizations [they refer specifically to Boston’s Globe and Herald] haven’t touched this story and why we at Outsports will not report on it as a news story.”
Blackceo
I just don’t know how much credence to give to this story about him being bisexual but what a waste. He would’ve been a for sure Hall of Famer, had his entire life ahead of him, but couldn’t leave that thug life behind. I couldn’t stand the Patriots but was a big fan of Aaron Hernandez. Being half Puerto Rican myself, we shared that in common so there was that Boricua pride given there are so few of us in the NFL. And yeah I’m gonna just say it…he was fine as hell to me. My ex was half Italian/half Puerto Rican like Aaron and they both had the same kind of look so…yeah. But I was really disappointed when I found out he was catching TDs on Sundays and catching bodies off the field.
Its also crazy that due to some law on the books, he actually could have his guilty verdict thrown out since he died while in the appeals process. Since he was found not guilty of the double murder, he could end up being in the eyes of the courts, an innocent man when its all said and done. I think he did it for his child. Still in shock I have to say and its just a tragic end to a really horrible story.
gary69mike
Hmmm… I find it a little strange that a guy who’s in prison for life for murder, would have any interaction with a guy who is in jail for 3-5 years for armed robbery, but I really don’t know how (and don’t want to know) the prison system works. Also thought Hernandez was in solitary confinement, hence one of the reason’s why he was so depressed.
Richard 55
I hate the word “bisexual”. I prefer “not 100% heterosexual”. Keep the critics guessing.
Aaron was no saint but he needed love just like everybody else . This is the seminal American tragedy for Aaron and his victims.
ErikO
Why do you hate the word bisexual? It’s an accurate term for someone who is neither gay/lesbian or heterosexual and who is sexually attracted to both genders/sexes.
Kenney G
Bisexual men are Violent and they will kill you. The gun man at the Pulse Night club bisexual and a killer, Aaron Hernandez Bisexual and a killer.
They hate the side of them that is attracted to the same gender. My advice is when you meet a guy who tell you I’m not gay but I want to have sex with you, Don’t walk away Run away. You could end up dead, Don’t do it, No one is that hard up for sex