And the other hardest thing was my girlfriend’s service was the day of the Michigan game. – “That has to be the hardest thing that I’ve had to do so far to be able to operate, and to be able to try to continue with my daily routine, but knowing that I just lost two women that I truly loved. White was her favorite color, so I sent her roses and sent her two picks (interceptions) along with that.” You’ll honor me through the way you play. – “I really wanted to see her (in the hospital), but I knew that she made me promise, ‘If anything happens to me, you’ll stay over there and you’ll play.
Te’o at the news conference after the Michigan State game on September 15. It was for them, for my girl and my grandma, and for all my loved ones who have passed on. I will be honest, throughout the game you are still thinking about it, but football allows me to be in a little realm, a little world that I know. At the end of the day, families are forever and I will see them again someday. I lost a woman who I truly love, but I have my family around me and my football family. 16, the same day the Deadspin article was published, when he received a call from Ronaiah Tuiasosopo apologizing for the ruse.– “It was hard.
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Te’o claims he didn’t learn the full extent of the hoax until Jan. Confused, Te’o then told his parents and the Notre Dame staff over Christmas that Kekua may be alive, and it’s then when Notre Dame opened an investigation into the matter.
He believed it to be U’ilani, Kekua’s purported sister. Te’o says that he received a phone call in December of 2012 from Kekua claiming she wasn’t dead. So I kind of tailored my stories to have people think that, yeah, he met her before she passed away so that people wouldn’t think that I was some crazy dude.” How did Te’o find out he had been ‘catfished’?
“I knew that - I even knew, that it was crazy that I was with somebody that I didn’t meet, and that alone - people find out that this girl who died, I was so invested in, I didn’t meet her, as well. “That goes back to what I did with my dad,” Te’o said. Te’o admitted in the ESPN interview that that had never happened. Te’o detailed in a January 2013 interview with ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap that he did not know Kekua until early 2010 when they connected on Facebook during his freshman year at Notre Dame.Ī South Bend Tribune report had said Te’o and Kekua met in person in the fall of 2009 after the Irish’s 45-38 loss at Stanford, where Kekua was allegedly a student. When did Manti Te’o’s ‘relationship’ with Lennay Kekua start? The story of Te’o and his fake girlfriend is a complex and mysterious one, which Netflix’s new two-part documentary “ Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist” attempts to unravel.Īs the scandal surges back into the national conversation with the docuseries debuting Tuesday, we have you covered with a refresher on the biggest questions surrounding the situation. Just a few months later, a bombshell Deadspin report revealed Kekua never existed. Fueling him were the early-season deaths of his grandmother and purported girlfriend Lennay Kekua. Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te’o was the face of the Irish’s resurgence in 2012, named Heisman runner-up as he helped the program to an undefeated regular season and national title game appearance. It’s been nearly a decade since one of college football’s biggest scandals rocked the sports world.
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