“I did not know what to do.” – Manti Te’o in an interview with Katie Couric
It started out as a real-life heroic story that pulled on the heart strings of sports lovers everywhere, but as details continue to emerge, the entire public is in a frenzy searching for the truth. How could one seemingly-normal young man, well on his way to football fame, be involved in such a scandal? Who is Lennay Kekua, and who’s really behind this ultimate deception?
Manti Te’o issued a statement on January 16th regarding the initial Deadspin report that his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, never existed. Te’o, a Heisman finalist for this year, insisted that he had been a victim of a hoax.
“…Over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained … [our] relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone… To realize that…
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