Manti Malietau Louis Teo is an American football linebacker who is a free agent. Te’o played college football at Notre Dame, where he was a consensus All-American and received eight national awards. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft.
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Girlfriend:
We also know that Te’o is a devout Mormon. When asked why he picked Notre Dame over Southern California, the school he had supported while growing up in Hawaii, he said he prayed on it.
“Faith,” he told ESPN, “is believing in something that you most likely can’t see, but you believe to be true. You feel in your heart, and in your soul, that it’s true, but you still take that leap.”
Catfish:
It was a catfish all along — with Ronaiah ‘Naya’ Tuiasosopo, the woman behind the hoax, caught in the middle.
Te’o, Tuiasosopo and the elaborate 2013 hoax are the subject of a new two-part documentary, “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist,” directed by Ryan Duffy and Tony Vainuku, out Tuesday on Netflix.
Memes:
Manti Te’o’s Girlfriend Hoax was a faked relationship between Notre Dame football player Manti Malietau Louis Te’o and a nonexistent woman named Lennay Kekua.
Approximately one hour after the Deadspin story was published, Notre Dame responded via Facebook claiming that Te’o had been the victim of a cruel hoax and the school would be assisting Te’o and his family in an investigation into the matter.
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The post was shared more than 1700 times and garnered more than 1780 comments. An hour after this statement was released, Te’o shared his thoughts on the matter.
The story of Te’o and his fake girlfriend is a well-known one, but the story of Tuiasosopo — who created the fictional girlfriend as a way to come to terms with her own gender dysphoria — is less so. Tuiasosopo has since come out as a transgender woman.
