Travis Hunter said his fiancée Leanna Lenee got drunk and cried herself to sleep after she faced criticism following his Heisman Trophy victory on Saturday night.
Some took issue with Lenee’s demeanor in a video that surfaced online, which showed her looking stoic on a couch while Hunter, the two-way Colorado star, posed for photos during a meet-and-greet with fans at his own event.
At one point, the couple appeared to be having a serious conversation, but it’s unclear what was said.
After the Heisman ceremony, Hunter sent a stern message to critics and explained that Lenee felt hurt.
“You ain’t never had no girl so why are y’all talking about me,” Hunter, a wide receiver and cornerback for the Buffaloes, said in a livestream on Twitch. “Find someone else to talk about… Go talk about your girl. Go find a girl. Go find a life. Stop worrying about what I got going on. I know what I got.
“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 explain that in the viral video — in which fans claimed Lenee looked miserable — he and Lenee were talking about his family and coordinating where they were going to go that night.
“Y’all hate on me then you go hate on my girl,” he said. “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 is possibly the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, encouraged people to send Lenee positive messages
“I don’t want her to go to sleep sad,” Hunter said. “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 said, according to 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.”
Another video on Sunday showed Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders appearing to tell Lenee to stand and applaud Hunter when he was announced the Heisman winner.
Lenee’s Instagram profile has since been changed to private.
That wasn’t the first time fans put a spotlight on the couple’s relationship.
At the beginning of December, another video showed Lenee appearing upset with Hunter after his stellar performance in Colorado’s 52-0 rout of Oklahoma State in its regular-season finale.
Lenee addressed it on her Instagram and explained that moment 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, according to the Daily 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 running back Ashton Jeanty, Miami quarterback Cam Ward and Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel for college football’s most prestigious honor on Saturday.
Hunter finished the regular season with 92 receptions for 1,152 yards and 14 touchdowns.
Hunter is expected to play in the Alamo Bowl against BYU before being one of the top picks in the 2025 NFL Draft.
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