Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez is speaking publicly for the first time on ‘Dr. Phil’ show.
Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, the fiancée of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez, is speaking publicly for the first time on the Dr. Phil show — airing in episodes Monday and Tuesday.
Through excerpts released last week of the interview with Dr. Phil McGraw, Jenkins-Hernandez said she did not think Hernandez’s death in his prison cell on April 19 was a suicide, even though authorities ruled it as one after he was found hanged and suicide notes were discovered.
That’s because in her last phone conversation with her fiancé, he told Jenkins-Hernandez and his daughters that, “Daddy’s going to come home.” Her initial reaction upon hearing the news of his death was that it was a “hoax” or “some cruel person playing a trick.”
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«I felt like we were looking so bright. We were going up a ladder to a positive direction, » Jenkins-Hernandez told Dr. Phil. «Our last talk had nothing to do with suicidal thoughts.»
Hernandez was acquitted in a 2012 double murder shortly before his suicide. He still was serving a life sentence for the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd.
Financial issues were also discussed in the interview, since Hernandez wrote in his suicide note to Jenkins-Hernandez, “YOU’ RE RICH.”
The Patriots didn’t pay the final $6 million in guaranteed money under his contract after Hernandez’s 2013 arrest. But after a judge’s decision to vacate his murder conviction last week, Hernandez’s estate could possibly seek that money.
