American Sports Story

For the sake of diachronic accuracy , this article contains coverage of harmful discussions and directly - quoted jokes about queer orientation and gayness .

WARNING : SPOILERS ahead for American Sports Story ’s coda .

American Sports Storyepisode 10 , " Who kill Aaron Hernandez ? " chronicle Hernandez ’s 2nd murder trial and death by suicide in 2017after being stage bycelebrity attorney Jose Baez . By theend of theAmerican Sports Storyfinale , Hernandez takes his own liveliness in his prison house celljust days after being acquitted of two extra slaying charges for a 2012 double homicide in Boston . American Sports Storyhighlights the various forces working against Hernandez , including hisfather Dennis ’s physical ill-treatment and toxic maleness , say intimate insult as a child , chronic hemp and substance abuse , closeted and repressed sexuality , andHernandez ’s postmortem advanced level 3 CTE diagnosis .

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Michele McPhee Did Discuss Aaron Hernandez’s Sexuality On The Kirk & Callahan Show

She appeared on the show on April 17, 2017

As depicted in theAmerican Sports Story : Aaron Hernandezfinale , Boston - base sport newsperson Michele McPhee , along with show hosts Kirk Minihane and Gerry Callahan , made crude and careless joke about Hernandez ’s alleged gayness live on a popular sports radio receiver show . The streamer logo hanging on the wall in the series that reads " WEEI 93.7 FM " is exact and the sports radio post remains wide listened to in the Boston area . " The Kirk & Callahan Show " ran on the air travel from August 2016 until September 2018 . McPhee began herjournalism life history withThe Boston Globein 1993 and was also a writer on Showtime’sCity on a Hill .

McPhee appeared on " The Kirk & Callahan Show " on April 17 , 2017 , two days after Hernandez was carry of the double homicide and two days before his death by felo-de-se . McPhee and the radio hosts ' duologue inAmerican Sports Storyis nearly verbatim to what was actually said about Hernandez on the air . McPhee launch the door of discussion on the red-hot topic upshot , say , " Let ’s badger away . " She went on to brook the innkeeper ’s title that Hernandez was a " tight end on and off the field of study , " and " he became a wide receiver . " McPhee added that Hernandez kicked " with both feet " ( viaThe New Yorker ) .

Michele McPhee Published The First National News Story About Aaron Hernandez’s Sexuality

McPhee broke the news that authorities interviewed Hernandez’s high school teammate, Dennis SanSoucie

Two daylight after Hernandez ’s demise , McPhee liquidate no sentence in publishing the first national tidings story that revealed Hernandez ’s alleged closeted gayness , style " Aaron Hernandez ’s Sex Life Probed as Murder Motive , Police Source Says " ( viaNewsweek ) . In it , she describes the last act of Hernandez ’s life and the circumstances around his dying . She report thatone of three suicide line left by Hernandez was written to his " prison boyfriend,“an unnamed con at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster , Massachusetts . The alleged lover , Kyle Kennedy , came forwards in 2020 ( viaPeople ) .

The FX series American Sports Story depict the alleged human relationship between Aaron Hernandez and his high school football teammate Dennis Sansoucie .

McPhee also notice in her groundbreaking ceremony article , " Hernandez ’s gender would , of course , not be relevant save for the fact that an intimate kinship he allegedly had with a manlike former high schoolhouse classmate was at the nitty-gritty of the investigation into Lloyd ’s slaying . " McPhee raises grounds thatHernandez ’s gayness was already suspected by authorization , implying that she was not the first person to discuss it . " Hernandez ’s say longtime male lover , the high shoal friend , was interview extensively by self-confidence after Lloyd ’s execution , and was forced to bear witness in front of a princely jury . " She was , however , the first person to call attention to it on a popular Boston sports wireless show .

Michelle McPhee in American Sports Story

Michele McPhee Does Not Believe She Outed Aaron Hernadez’s Sexuality

She wrote a 2020 Newsweek piece defending her stance against the stark backlash

Sources : The New Yorker , Newsweek , People

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American Sports Story is a TV show from Stu Zicherman and executive produced by Ryan Murphy . The series   star Josh Andrés Rivera as Aaron Hernandez and Patrick Schwarzenegger as Tim Tebow .   The sports anthology series serves as the fourth installment in Murphy ’s " American Story " franchise .

Michele McPhee on radio show in American Sports Story

American Sports Story is a TV show from Stu Zicherman and executive produced by Ryan Murphy. The series stars Josh Andrés Rivera as Aaron Hernandez and Patrick Schwarzenegger as Tim Tebow. The sports anthology series serves as the fourth installment in Murphy’s “American Story” franchise.

Kalama Epstein as Dennis Sansoucie in American Sports Story

Michele McPhee close up in American Sports Story

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