(CNN) — The man who says he was behind the Manti Te’o girlfriend hoax claims he was in love with the Notre Dame linebacker, but the athlete knew nothing about the ruse. “He had no idea,” said 22-year-old Ronaiah Tuiasosopo in the first segment of a two-part interview that aired Thursday on “Dr. Phil.” The […]
(CNN) — Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te’o acknowledged to ABC’s Katie Couric that he maintained the illusion of his dead girlfriend in the weeks after he received a call claiming that Lennay Kekua and her death were hoaxes. His publicist, Matthew Hiltzik, who also reportedly represents Couric, said he was present during the interview. […]
Katie Couric told an ESPN radio show on Tuesday that she believed Manti Te’o was the victim, not the perpetrator, of a hoax — but that he felt “trapped” once he learned that his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, was fake. Couric landed the eagerly awaited television interview with Te’o. It airs Thursday afternoon on her talk […]
Manti Te’o has admitted that he never actually met Lennay Kekua, despite lying to his parents and briefly misleading the media on this issue, but he maintains that he spent countless nights talking to his “girlfriend” on the telephone. According to a report in the New York Daily News on Thursday morning, alleged hoax orchestrator […]