![]() The directors managed to convince Tuiasosopo to tell her side of the story as well. I'm not ashamed of anything." So he does it. "I felt like, OK, I'm at a place where I'm ready to tell it. Why relive it all? "I talked to my parents, I talked to my team, and I realized that there are a lot of people out there that still have questions," Te'o says. The former Notre Dame star was finally feeling something resembling peace at the time. He wanted to make a documentary about the worst year of Te'o's life. In 2020, a film director, Tony Vainuku, called Te'o. Things started to feel a little bit better. "If Jay-Z says I've got to reveal it, then what I'm going to do is every time somebody asks me about it? I'm going to have those hard conversations and tell them everything." That gave him strength. "From that moment on, I was like, OK, I'm trying to heal from this thing," Te'o says over Zoom in August. Hov, voice carrying through an entire stadium, preaches, "You cannot heal what you don't reveal." Te'o, having gone through something wholly unimaginable, yet only possible in the era of clicks and smartphones, hears something he'll never forget. Turns out, Ronaiah "Naya" Tuiasosopo invented an online persona named Lennay Kekua and became close with Te'o through this alter ego before faking her own death-then, Deadspin broke the story. Second? When the girlfriend turned out to be a hoax. The first? At Notre Dame, where Te'o not only blazed his way into Heisman trophy contention, but did so while playing for his grandmother and girlfriend, both recently passed away. Te'o played for the New Orleans Saints, at the time, still lodged in the damn near never-ending come down from that one time, you're surely well-aware, when he was the biggest story in sports, two times over. Te’o," he wrote in a sweet Instagram post.Manti Te'o's healing began-where else?-at a JAY-Z concert. "I couldn’t give you the world but I think I did better … I gave you my last name and it looks good on you Mrs. ![]() Yup! It looks like Manti recovered from the emotional trauma of such a public catfishing scandal because in 2020, he revealed that he had married his girlfriend, Jovi Nicole Engbino. It’s hard to say for sure, but everyone knows football players make bank, and I wouldn't be surprised if he has made several million dollars during his years in the league. Right now, he's currently considered a "free agent," per USA Today. So far, he has played for several NFL teams including the San Diego Chargers, the New Orleans Saints, and the Chicago Bears. Manti was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft. Some people accused Manti of being in on the scheme for publicity, and reporter Katie Couric also asked some super pointed questions about his sexuality after the scandal broke, per Yahoo Sports. Still, he was the butt of a lot of jokes as he was preparing for the NFL draft. Manti was a star college player at the time and he has continued to be a big name in football over the years. What happened after the catfishing scandal was revealed? With all of this going on, it’s only natural to have questions about where Manti is now. ![]() Everything came to a head when Manti announced that his "girlfriend" had died of leukemia six hours after his grandmother passed away, per Sports Illustrated, and the story began to unravel. Manti formed a relationship with the fake Lennay despite never meeting her IRL. The Netflix documentary, Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist, details how a person named Naya Tuiasosopo pretended to be a woman named Lennay Kekua.
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