Manti Te'o reflects on catfishing hoax in Netflix documentary

Netflix recently released a documentary that covers an odd catfishing case that fettered Manti Te’o 10 yrs ago. He talked same on “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.”

Te’o, currently an NFL free agent, discussed the project entitled “Untold: the Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist” on a CBS Morning News program.

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In 2012, Te’o led the fighting Irish all the way to the BCS national championship game. Additionally, he was a heisman finalist too.

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"In order for me to kind of heal from this, I needed to reveal it," he said.

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In interviews at the time, he spoke about the loss of his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua.

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Te’o said another reason he is telling his story now is to make sure people understand he actually did lose somebody during that tumultuous period in his life.

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After Notre Dame's season was complete, it was reported that Te'o was a subject of elongated catfishing scheme and Kekau was not real. Tuiasosopo also appears in the documentary.

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“I didn’t know what to believe,” Te’o said when he acknowledged the scam. “What are you going to do with that information? ”, added later.

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