A new documentary reveals a phone confrontation that Aaron Hernandez had with his mother before he died by suicide in prison.
The once young star in the NFL who signed a multi-million dollar contract with the New England Patriots was seemingly living a life of crime and would soon be entangled in multiple criminal cases. In 2017, he died by suicide when he hanged himself with a bed sheet in prison. That shocking news came just five days after he was acquitted of double murder charges in the deaths of two men outside a Boston nightclub in 2012.
Netflix is investigating the life of the former Patriots tight end in Aaron Hernandez, the Killer Inside, a three-part documentary that will be released on January 15.
That documentary also plays a phone call recording of Hernandez basically confronting his own mother and blaming her for his actions.
Via People:
“I was the happiest little kid in the world, and you f—ed me up,” he says to her.
“I ain’t living with that,” she replies.
“You did,” he responds. “I had nobody. What’d you think I was going to do? Become a perfect angel?”
While awaiting trial for the murder of Odin Lloyd in 2013, Hernandez made a series of recorded jailhouse calls to his mother in which he blamed her for many of his problems, but expressed interest in repairing his relationship with her.
In an interview last year, Hernandez’s older brother told PEOPLE that Aaron suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse before devolving into a life of violence.
“He had a lot of things happen, both good and bad,” Jonathan Hernandez told PEOPLE. “People think they know about my brother, but they really don’t. They know what they saw in the news, but they don’t know all the struggles he faced.”
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It would later be revealed that Hernandez suffered the most severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy ever discovered in a person his age.
That level of brain damage would have affected the deceased football player’s ability to make decisions and control his behavior. “Individuals with CTE, and CTE of this severity, have difficulty with impulse control, decision-making, inhibition of impulses for aggression, emotional volatility, rage behaviors,” Dr. Ann McKee told the Boston conference.
Hernandez had Stage 3 CTE. Stage 4 is the most severe diagnosis.
