Manti T’eo (inset: Ronaiah Tuiasosopo)
*Notre Dame football player Manti Te’o shocked the sports world when his story of a fake girlfriend (Lennay Kekua) seeped out to the public. It was so shocking that he scored an interview with news’ most talked about journalist, Katie Couric.
In the interview, he acknowledged that he didn’t tell the truth to family, friends and teammates, but denied any deals with a hoax.
So what was it all about?
Katie asked the million-dollar question: “Are you gay?”
Quickly he denied any sexual cover up.
Instead, he thought he was in a real relationship and thought he was mourning the loss of his real girlfriend who supposedly died of leukemia.
When he attempted to Skype her, there was a black box where her face should have been.
“She would say I can see you I don’t know why you don’t see me,” Te’o said.
“You didn’t think that was weird,” Couric said.
“No.” Te’o then got a call from Ronaiah Tuiasosopo saying that “Kekua” had died. Then, on Dec. 6, he got a call saying that “Kekua” was in fact alive. But he wanted proof so things got a little hairy.
It turns out Tuiasosopo used the photo of Diane O’Meara who he asked to take a picture for a person in the hospital.
By Jan. 13th, the walls of the big hoax came tumbling down and O’Meara found out that her photos and videos had been used to create this fake person after a reporter contacted her.
It wasn’t until Jan. 16th, he found out that Tuiasosopo was impersonating Kekua online, where the two maintained most of their relationship.
Read more about the hoax relationship here.
Check out a clip of the interview with the “are you gay?,” question:
http://www.footballnation.com/content/the-manti-teo-imaginary-dead-girlfriend-scandal/20950/
What is so IMPORTANT about this guy and his gf ( who never existed)??? that the media has to report on this story every day for a week now???? I do not get it?? Can someone explain the significance?? Pretty Please??? LOL!!!
Of course he didn’t have anything to do with it. Even Ray Charles could see that. This is all about those sleazy sports “journalists’” obsession with peddling garbage. It all started going south when he was stood up by the fraud “girlfriend” and he was too embarrassed to admit it to his dad. Since he didn’t want his family to know that he lied to them, he had to lie to reporters also.
And once you lied to one reporter and it was public, you had to keep on lying. What else was the guy supposed to do? He’s human. Anyone could find themselves in that predicament.
This has to be one of the biggest non-stories ever. I wish he would just say that it’s not of yall d@mn business what goes on or does not go on in my personal life.
Agree, it is not like Manti was an elected offical who deceived his constituents or something he is a football player for Notre Dame, enough said! When the media harps on such stupid and crazy non stories they do not know when to let it go!!!