Travis Hunter Deactivates Instagram Amid Hate Against Fiancé Leanna Lenee

Amid the continued vitriol circulating online about his fiancée Leanna Lenee, 2024 Heisman winner Travis Hunter has deactivated his Instagram account.

Hunter has not shared the details behind his decision, but in the days following the Dec. 14 Heisman Trophy ceremony, the Colorado Buffaloes star and Lenee have faced significant criticism about his behavior.

At the ceremony, Lenee was seen inside video recordings remain seated after Hunter was announced the winner, with Deion Sanders, the Buffaloes head coach, pushing her to stand. After she gives Hunter a brief hug, Lenee immediately sits back down as the rest of the audience stands and applauds.

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

This time, Hunter took pictures with fans at a pop-up event in New York City, while Lenee stayed put and seemed annoyed by the amount of time Hunter was spending with fans.

In the video shared online by a fan, Lenee appeared to tell Hunter, “What do you want me to do… I’ll just sit here.”

After the incident, Hunter, 21, said on Twitch that Lenee cried herself to sleep and drank a lot of alcohol because of the intense backlash.

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

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“I know what I got. I know my girl. My girl has been with me for five years,” Hunter said. “You guys just started talking about me and just started being with me. Come on, man.”

Two days later, on December 16, Lenee took to TikTok to defend herself against the allegations. “People say I say, ‘What am I going to do? Just sit here?’ ” she said in response to the clip. “That’s not what I said in the first place,” she said.

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

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

“I said, ‘Do you want me to sit here? Or do you want me to go with the family? Or do you want me to go with you?’ Because again, what you don’t know from a seven-second clip is that they weren’t fans, by the way, he had already finished that part,” Lenee said.

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

“I wasn’t annoyed at all without fans. I’m never annoyed with fans,” Lenee said. “So it was what it was.”