Heisman Winner Travis Hunter Deactivates Instagram Account as Hatred Toward Fiancée Leanna Lenee Continues

Mar. 15, 2025

Travis Hunter Leanna Lanee.Photo:Travis Hunter/Instagram

Travis Hunter/Instagram

Amid the continued vitriol going around online about his fiancée Leanna Lenee, 2024 Heisman winnerTravis Hunterhas deactivated his Instagram account.

Hunter has not shared specifics behind his decision, but in the days since the Dec. 14 Heisman Trophy ceremony the Colorado Buffaloes star and Lenee havefaced significant criticism about her behavior.

At the ceremony, Lenee was seen invideo footagestaying seated after Hunter was announced the winner, with Deion Sanders, the Buffaloes head coach, nudging her to stand up. After she gives Hunter a brief hug, Lenee immediately sits back down as the rest of the audience remains standing and applauding.

As that footage circulated on social media, another video of Lenee from a day after the ceremony made the rounds.

This time, Hunter was taking photos with fans at a pop-up event in New York City while Lenee remained seated and appeared to be irritated with the amount of time Hunter was spending with fans.

Travis Hunter.Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty

Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty

“You know the hurt when you just cry yourself to sleep,” Hunter said during his Twitch stream, adding that his fiancée was “asleep” and he didn’t want her to “go to sleep sad” after drinking.

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“I know what I got. I know my girl. My girl’s been with me for five years,” Hunter said. “Y’all are just now starting to talk about me and just now starting to be with me. Come on, man.”

Travis Hunter with his fiancée, Leanna Lanee.Travis Hunter/Instagram

Two days later, on Dec. 16, Lenee took to TikTok to defend herself against the claims. “People are saying that I’m like, ‘What am I supposed to do? Just sit here?’ ” she said in response to the clip. “That’s not what I said, first of all,” she said.

Lenee continued her response, adding that the people seen with Hunter in the video were not fans, but instead Adidas employees who were getting social media content with him following the Heisman ceremony.

She said she was just trying to find out what she was supposed to do after the event ended.

She stated she had been there “the entire time, taking pictures, talking to them, everything.”

“I wasn’t annoyed with no fans, at all. I’m never annoyed with fans,” Lenee said. “So that’s what that was.”

source: people.com