Football player Manti Te'o, who learned in 2012 that his online girlfriend not only faked her own death but also was not the person she claimed, says he's speaking out about the situation so that he can heal from it.
Football player Manti Te'o, who learned in 2012 that his late online girlfriend was not only alive but also not the person she claimed, says that he's speaking out about the situation in order to heal from it. In a new two-part Netflix documentary called"Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist," the award-winning player and Heisman Trophy finalist provides his side of the story.
During Te'o's senior year at Notre Dame in 2012, he reported the death of both his girlfriend Lennay Kekua and grandmother within hours of each other. Kekua was said to be a 22-year-old Stanford University student who suffered a serious car accident before she was diagnosed with leukemia. "There were attempts to meet up," he said, adding that plane tickets had even been purchased in certain instances."There were excuses of, 'Oh a family member is ill. Somebody was in the hospital.' And for me, I'm not going to be like 'Prove it.'" in 2013 were unable to locate records of Kekua's death or for a car accident on the reported dates. They alleged that the real person behind the photos was someone named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo from Seattle.
"I didn't know what to believe," Te'o said."You don't expect for somebody to say 'Hey, somebody's dead,' and three months later, 'Somebody's alive.' What do you do with that information?" the football star said."Do you call somebody and say,"Hey, I just found out somebody's alive."
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