Prison isn’t so tough to take, according to ex-NFL player and accused killer Aaron Hernandez, at least when compared to the stress and strife of the real world.
“I’m way less stressed in jail than when I was out of jail,” the former New England Patriot wrote in a two-page Nov. 17 letter to a pal obtained by the celebrity Web site TMZ. “I’m just anxious to go to trial to see what’s up and prove my innocence.”
Hernandez, 24, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and five weapons charges in the killing of Odin Lloyd, 27, a buddy whose body was found last June about a mile from the ex-baller’s home in North Attleborough, Mass.
Jail guards, he boasted, have not “seen me in a bad mood yet and I really enjoy my days. It’s not that bad, honestly. I’m just hoping I am out within these next few years, to get a chance to ball again.”
But life in the Big House isn’t perfect, he admitted.
On the letter, written on lined yellow paper, he drew an image of a naked woman with the words “I need A” written on her large posterior.
“Dats a bad!” he wrote beneath the drawing, beside both a smiley face and the letters “lol.”
The accused murderer claimed he has smartened up by reading 25 books while in jail, and is “using this time to become strong, wiser and trying to come out, when I come home, way more intelligent, which I will.”
He also admitted he could have done a better job choosing his lowlife associates, adding “but it’s life, you live and learn!”
Hernandez is also under scrutiny by a grand jury in the deaths of Danny Abreu and Safiro Furtado, who were killed in July 2012 after they leaving a Boston night spot.