Manti Te'o's Girlfriend Never Existed

[whywesteppin]

I'm late cliffs?

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Te'o was dating a girl for 3 years and was planning to marry her but she died from leukemia.

Turns out she was a hoax.

Te'o claims he was duped the whole time by someone pretending to be this girl online.

But it doesn't add up. Most likely, Te'o actively perpetuated the host in order to get more fame. Some speculate he may have used it as a cover for his homosexuality. I'm not convinced of that last part though.

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

Wasnt there a Tuiasosopo that played for UW some years back?

 

[dland24]

Wasnt there a Tuiasosopo that played for UW some years back?

Yup. Dude's cousin.

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

Yup. Dude's cousin.

Damn, Samoans are a tight nit group. Like Amish.

 

[hugebird]

TBH, I don't think there's NEARLY enough focus on Tuiasosopo. He's the wild card here.

Did you see the TMZ story? It's coming.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/01/17/manti-teo-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-scandal-hoax-notre-dame-photo-girlfriend/

 

[flacobey]

Via NBC News:

9 questions, Manti is so f'ed

1. Notre Dame says that Te'o never met Kekua, that their relationship was strictly online and by phone. But the player's father gave the South Bend Tribune a detailed account of how the couple first met at a Stanford game in Palo Alto in 2009 and rendez-voused in Hawaii after becoming a couple in early 2012. And Te'o himself told ESPN that she was the "most beautiful girl I ever met."
2. Te'o called Kekua "the love of my life." His parents said they believed they would get married. Yet if Notre Dame's account is to be believed, they never met even once, or even Skyped. It beggars belief.
3. Before her leukemia "diagnosis," Kekua supposedly was nearly killed in a car accident. But published profiles of Te'o have conflicting dates -- late 2011, last January, or as recently as April. Why the discrepancies?
4. When did Kekua's fictitious death happen? Various interviews with Te'o have her succumbing to leukemia hours before his grandmother died on Sept. 12, soon after, or even days after. Assuming Te'o truly believed Kekua had passed away, wouldn't he remember the date? Or did all the reporters get the details wrong?
5. After he supposedly received the shock of his life -- a call from someone using Kekua's voice and phone number while he was at the ESPN Awards on Dec. 6 -- Teo stayed quiet for three weeks. It wasn't until Dec. 26 that he told Notre Dame officials, who then hired private investigators to look into it.
6. If Te'o was in on the deception, though, why wouldn't he just let Kekua rest in peace? Was he or someone else worried the hoax was about to come to light, prompting a fourth-quarter end-run to get ahead of the revelations?
7. Hours after Deadspin's bombshell report and Notre Dame's press conference, when it seemed that everyone could agree on one thing -- there is no Lennay Kekua -- an NFL player claimed to have actually seen her in the flesh. Arizona Cardinals fullback Regan Mauia said he met her in American Samoa in 2011, before she started romancing Te'o, and is "close" to her family.
8. Carrying out the hoax would have been a full-time job involving more than one person. Te'o claims he would spend all night on the phone with Kekua while she was in the hospital. There were purported communications from family members. Who would have had the time to orchestrate it? By the same token, how would Te'o have been able to create and maintain a social-media profile for Kekua on his own?
9. Where's the motive? A central figure in the hoax is reported to be musician Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Deadspin reported that he had contact with the woman, a former high-school classmate, whose photos were used to create Kekua's profile -- even obtaining one of the pictures from her directly. But the site also describes Tuiasosopo as a friend of Te'o, raising the question of why he would humiliate his buddy.

Sounds like a movie. Wow

 

[tee eye ehm]

Im thinking hes in the closet.

 

[fantastic4our]

Teo and Tuisasosopo are gay lovers.

Dude was tweeting from the Lenny account to hide their gay love.

Maybe they broke up so he deaded the account.

Star linebacker can only get chicks off twitter? Nah b. He gay.

And that's fine. I support gay mogs being gay. Just be honest.

 

[Chester McFloppy]

Wasnt there a Tuiasosopo that played for UW some years back?

I think he was the last Huskies QB to beat the Ducks.

 

[Renaldo Balkman]

TBH, I don't think there's NEARLY enough focus on Tuiasosopo. He's the wild card here.

Did you see the TMZ story? It's coming.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/01/17/manti-teo-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-scandal-hoax-notre-dame-photo-girlfriend/

this story is starting to COOK... media + technology = EXPOSED

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

Did you see the TMZ story? It's coming.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/01/17/manti-teo-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-scandal-hoax-notre-dame-photo-girlfriend/

Mind = blown.

 

[flacobey]

That TMZ article is crazy!

I'm starting to believe he's gay as well. If he is, I hope he publicly comes out. It'd be an interesting day in the sports world the day one of the top LB prospects in football turns out to be gay.

 

[rolaholic]

Did you see the TMZ story? It's coming.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/01/17/manti-teo-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-scandal-hoax-notre-dame-photo-girlfriend/

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Story keeps taking more and more turns. Almost 12 PST too.

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

This is going from the "Susie" episode to

 

[darthska]

When was the last time a football player considered coming out because that would be the easy way out?

 

[al3xis]

Eh, I still think the gay-theory is a pretty big assumption at this point.

 

[dajoka004]

Somebody please find Tuiasosopo and pay him any amount of money to spill the truth.

 

[mmg]

Teo and Tuisasosopo are gay lovers.

Dude was tweeting from the Lenny account to hide their gay love.

Maybe they broke up so he deaded the account.

Star linebacker can only get chicks off twitter? Nah b. He gay.

And that's fine. I support gay mogs being gay. Just be honest.

Honestly was thinking all this.

Homey got some ayo in his Teo.

Him and his sword fighting buddy wanted to be out there but couldn't obviously so he acts like he got a female via twitter so he can talk about her out in the open.

Him and his lover have a problem, he makes this whole thing up to have some accountability as to why she would disappear

This is all nuts though

 

[ninjallamafromhell]

Maybe Manti is the unnamed football player involved in this little gem that ND has been trying to hide:
http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/12/06/no-cheers-for-notre-dame/

 

[memo]

i doubt they are gay lovers now, look at Tuiasosopo, he's wearing a freaking harry potter scarf 

 

plus it's just been reported teammates didn't believe the GF story because Manti was with girls around the time she died. 

 

[Thierry Henry]

so is there going to be a conference at 12 pm PST?

brb

*starts getting popcorn ready*

 

[buc em]

Did you see the TMZ story? It's coming.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/01/17/manti-teo-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-scandal-hoax-notre-dame-photo-girlfriend/

Wooooooooooooow. That bomb is ready to drop.

 

[memo]

so is there going to be a conference at 12 pm PST?

brb

*starts getting popcorn ready*

ND said on facebook that there's going to be one at 8pm 

 

[tee eye ehm]

so is there going to be a conference at 12 pm PST?

brb

*starts getting popcorn ready*

I read early reports that the interview with T'eo and Jeremy Schapp has been cancelled.

 

[fantastic4our]

Did you see the TMZ story? It's coming.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/01/17/manti-teo-ronaiah-tuiasosopo-scandal-hoax-notre-dame-photo-girlfriend/