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'He could've been saved,' Shayanna Jenkins tells Dr. Phil

BOSTON — Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez told an interviewer this week she doesn’t trust the reports of her fiancé’s suicide.

Jenkins is a featured guest on this week’s episodes of the Dr. Phil show with interviewer Dr. Phil McGraw.

The well-known talk show host sat down in a room for a private interview with Jenkins just weeks after former NFL star Aaron Hernandez was found dead of an apparent suicide in his prison cell.

“I don’t at all [believe the report],” she said. “Until we can get in there and do our own investigation and I actually – I guess – trust where these answers are coming from, maybe I can have some comfort in the truth.”

Hernandez had just been acquitted in a 2012 double murder in Boston before corrections officials say he killed himself in his cell.

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In the wake of his death, his 2013 murder conviction has been vacated due to the fact he never completed his appeal.

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Officials said there were no signs of a struggle and he was by himself at the time of his death. Investigators found three hand-written notes next to a Bible in the cell and ‘John 3:16’ written in several places.

“Aaron was spiritual, but he wasn’t the kind of guy to get up every Sunday and go to church,” said Jenkins in her interview.

McGraw noted surveillance footage showed Hernandez on the phone just before being locked in his cell for the night. He was apparently on the phone with Jenkins at that time.

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“As far as I know, I was the last person to speak with him,” Jenkins told McGraw. “I remember him saying, ‘babe I’ve got to go, they’re shutting the doors.’ … and that was it.”

State Police said they found cardboard jammed into the door tracks of Hernandez's single-inmate cell to impede entry into the cell. He was being housed in Souza-Baranowski prison while serving a life sentence for being convicted of killing Odin Lloyd in 2013.

“I believe there’s some uncounted time,” said Jenkins. “I don’t think that things were done properly. I feel like he could’ve been saved. I feel like someone was in the wrong.”

You can watch clips from the interview below.