Given the worldwide attention given to Manti Te'o and his fake girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, it was inevitable the football star would break his silence sooner rather than later. Last night, Te'o sat down for an off-camera interview with Espn's Jeremy Schaap, where he admitted to lyng about actually meeting Kekua because he believed his friends, family and coaches would think he was "crazy" for engaging in an intense relationship with someone he'd never met. But, throughout the interview, Te'o maintains he was not complicit in perpetuating the story for personal gain.
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"I wasn't faking it. I wasn't part of this," Te'o tells Espn's Jeremy Schapp, insisting he was duped by the online hoax, now commonly referred to as "Catifshing," thanks to the documentary and MTV show of the same name.
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"She friend requested me on Facebook the winter of my freshman year at Notre Dame," Te'o...
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"I wasn't faking it. I wasn't part of this," Te'o tells Espn's Jeremy Schapp, insisting he was duped by the online hoax, now commonly referred to as "Catifshing," thanks to the documentary and MTV show of the same name.
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"She friend requested me on Facebook the winter of my freshman year at Notre Dame," Te'o...
- 1/19/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
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