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Travis Hunter with fiancee Leanna Lenee.
Courtesy of Travis Hunter/InstagramLeana Leneefiancé of Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunterexplained why he initially ignored the football star when he first slid into his DMs.
In TikTok video Posted on Monday, December 16, Lenee, 23, said she had received “permission” from Hunter, 21, to discuss the early days of their relationship.
“Travis, when he first DM’d him — when we first met, I said I left him in my DMs for two months and people said, ‘Oh, he left her in DMs until she found out who he was.’ That is not true at all,” Lenee said. “The real reason Travis sat in my DMs for two months was because he DMed me when he had a girlfriend.”
Lenee said Hunter’s boyfriend’s name was “in his bio” when he sent her the DM.
When Travis Hunter won the 2024 Heisman Trophy, he had the best support system in fiancée Leanna Lenee. “Winner’s winner’s chicken dinner,” Lenee wrote via Instagram in December 2024, sharing photos from Hunter’s ceremony. He added in a follow-up post, “They’re crazy, make them crazier!!!” The Heisman is awarded annually to the best player in (…)
“I knew right away he had a partner,” Lenee explained. “So I left the message and it sat there until it was single.”
He added, “I don’t do home wrecking. I’m not a side piece. I don’t stand for any of those things. I support women. I would never do that to another woman because I would never want it done to me.”
Lenee also addressed a previous comment she made that Hunter wasn’t her “type.”
Travis Hunter and Leanna Lenee.
Courtesy of Travis Hunter/Instagram“I didn’t mean attraction,” Lenee said in the TikTok video. “I don’t have a physical type, period. No two men I have dated before look the same. My first one was a white cowboy. The second one was a soccer player from Mexico. And then I dated a Black guy who’s a SoundCloud rapper.”
Lenee continued, “I’ve never physically dated the same type. I don’t care what people look like or what they can give me. I date people for who they are as a person, how they honor God and how they treat the people around them.”
Hunter and Lenee made their relationship Instagram official in February 2022 and got engaged two years later.
Elsewhere in her TikTok video, Lenee took aim at critics her behavior over Heisman weekend – specifically that she wasn’t excited enough when Hunter’s name was called and that she looked excited with Hunter at an Adidas event before the ceremony.
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“The things I see people do are really crazy, because that’s not what happened,” Lenee said. “I think people find every little thing and try to make it something it’s not. Bird-brained individuals only accept what they see online.”
During a Twitch live stream on Sunday, December 15, Hunter he came to the defense of his fiancee.
“You hate me and then you’re going to hate my daughter,” Hunter said. “Bro, I feel the same as she does. We are inseparable, brother. We are together. If she’s hurting, of course I’m going to be hurting. If I’m hurting, of course she’s going to be hurting.”
He added, “You’ve never had a daughter, so why are you all talking about me? Find something else to talk about. You’re talking about my daughter? Go talk about your daughter. Go find a girl. Come and discover life. I know what I got. I know my daughter. My daughter has been with me for 5 years. You all just started talking about me.”
