As the controversy surrounding their relationship continued to build, she won the Heisman Trophy Travis Hunter and his fiancée, Leanna LeneeThey both excused themselves from the story.

Hunter, 21, a two-way star from the University of Colorado, and Lenee, 23, both deactivated their Instagram and TikTok accounts over the weekend. Hunter’s Twitch channel, where he regularly broadcasts livestreams, is still active.

With the growing debate over their impending marriage, the two made the decision to cut ties with social media.

At the Dec. 14 Heisman Trophy ceremony — where Hunter was named the best player in college football — the conversation went into overdrive as viewers at home criticized Lenee for not standing up when Hunter’s name was called .

Videos from Heisman weekend also circulated that showed Lenee allegedly getting upset with Hunter, with fans believing it was because he wasn’t paying enough attention to her at an Adidas pop-up shop.

On Monday, December 16, Lenee took to her now-deactivated TikTok account to address the numerous controversies.

“The things I’m seeing are really crazy because that’s not what happened,” Lenee said in the video. “I just think people find every little thing and try to make it into something it isn’t. Bird-brain individuals simply accept what they see online.”

Lenee attempted to explain her behavior at the Heisman ceremony by simply stating that she wasn’t entirely sure how to behave appropriately.

“This makes me so angry because everyone who knows me knows that I support Travis in every win and in everything he does,” Lenee said. “Because I really, really love this man. He’s perfect in my eyes.”

She continued: “When his name was called, if you watch the video, you can see me (standing up), but his mother didn’t stand up. So I thought, ‘Oh, maybe I won’t get up.’ Maybe I’ll just sit here with her.’ So I sat there.”

Lenee also denied that she and Hunter had any heated discussion at the pop-up shop.

Elsewhere in the video, Lenee disputed claims that Hunter was in a relationship when the two met.

“I don’t do house ruins,” she said. “I’m not an afterthought. I don’t stand for any of it. I support women. I would never do that to another woman because I would never want it done to me.”

In fact, Lenee revealed that she had actually left Hunter’s initial correspondence with her unanswered for months due to his relationship status at the time.

“Travis, when he first DM’d me – when we first met I said I had left him in my DMs for two months and people were like, ‘Oh, she left him in DMs, until she finds out who he is.’ “That’s not true at all,” Lenee said. “The real reason Travis sat in my DMs for two months is because he DM’d me when he had a girlfriend.”

Lenee continued: “I knew straight away he had a partner. So I left the message and he stayed there until he was single.”

In the seven-minute TikTok video, Lenee also focused her attention on a previous comment she made about Hunter not being her “type.”

“I didn’t mean attractive,” 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 was a white cowboy. The second was a Mexican soccer player. And then I dated a black man who was a SoundCloud rapper.”

Lenee continued, “I have never physically dated the same guy. I don’t care what people look like or what they can give me. I date people based on their personality, how they honor God, and how they treat those around them.”

Hunter, who is widely expected to be a top-five pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, and Lenee made their relationship Instagram official in February 2022 and got engaged two years later.

After Heisman weekend, Hunter took to Twitch and revealed that Lenee cried herself to sleep after the backlash.

“Y’all gonna hate me and then y’all gonna hate my girl,” Hunter said on Dec. 15. “Bro, I feel the same as you. We are inseparable, brother. We are together. If it hurts her, of course I will too. If I feel bad, of course she will feel bad too.”

The pair received the support of the Colorado quarterback, Shedeur Sanderswho criticized other athletes and celebrities for speaking publicly about Hunter.

“All athletes, entertainers, artists, etc., if you are seriously trying to call Trav, then you all know how to get in touch with him or anyone around,” Sanders, 22, wrote on Sunday, April 22. December, via X. “At this point you’re all just posting for the algorithm and trying to look cool.”