Show of farce, starring Shayanna
Aaron Hernandez fiancee takes tale to tell-all trail
Cue the crocodile tears. Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez is taking her redemption tour to “Dr. Phil” like so many tarnished celebs before her.
Sorry, I’m not tuning in.
Aaron Hernandez’s weepy fiancee is just trying to rebuild her shattered image — and cash in on her dead sweetheart’s tattooed, NFLoutcast persona.
Now that he’s committed suicide, she’s able to tell any tale she pleases about their love story and whether she knew anything about his dark side that led him to be charged with killing three people.
Blind loyalty to her Bloods gang beau prevented her from providing any meaningful testimony at both his murder trials, where she was given immunity, and that’s the story that needs to be remembered.
“I learned to keep my mouth shut in certain situations,” she testified about her life with the ex-Patriot. “I played my role,” she added. Investigators still had enough evidence in the Odin L. Lloyd murder case to get a guilty verdict against him, despite her lack of productive cooperation. Yet, her family may never forgive her for standing by her man, considering Lloyd was her sister’s boyfriend. We’ll find out next week if the interview will yield any support for the single mom.
You can’t help but wonder if this interview is part of a larger plan. Reality TV stars are created from controversy every day. Robert Kardashian defended OJ and that was part of the original hook for the show that spawned Kim, Khloe, Kourtney, Kylie, Kris, Caitlyn ... and on and on.
There’s a program called “Mob Wives” where cameras follow around women whose husbands are in jail.
Considering the international reach the Hernandez trials received, there’s little doubt that Shayanna has been approached by producers to follow her every move as she picks up the pieces and tries to raise her 4-year-old daughter alone.
It seems implausible that she would agree to this one interview and then fade into obscurity.
Aaron Hernandez was acquitted in the double murder trial just days before he hanged himself, so Shayanna thought the phone call she received saying he was dead must have been a hoax.
“I felt like we were looking so bright. We were going up a ladder to a positive direction,” she told Dr. Phil, according to an early clip of the show.
In his suicide letter to her, Hernandez promised Shayanna she would be “rich” when he died, even though his earning days were over.
So what did he mean? She could profit off of his death by writing a book or going the Dr. Phil or Oprah or the cable drama route?
She can also try to go after the $6.5 million the Patriots may owe her now that Hernandez’s lone guilty verdict has been vacated.
Still, it was her choice to look the other way all those years, but it’s our choice if we will celebrate Shayanna and make her a star. Let’s just hope not.