{"id":20379,"date":"2022-08-16T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1694683"},"modified":"2022-08-16T19:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T17:22:15","slug":"untold-the-girlfriend-who-didnt-exist-true-story-manti-teos-catfishing-hoax-explained","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/untold-the-girlfriend-who-didnt-exist-true-story-manti-teos-catfishing-hoax-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn\u2019t Exist true story \u2013 Manti Te\u2019o\u2019s catfishing hoax explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 16 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Volume 2 of Netflix\u2019s <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/documentaries\/untold-volume-2-release-schedule\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Untold<\/a> began on the streamer today, diving straight into one of the biggest catfishing stories to hit the sporting world with The Girlfriend Who Didn\u2019t Exist.<\/p>\n<p>The two-part documentary tells the story of how up-and-coming college footballer Manti Te\u2019o entered into a relationship with Lennay Kekua \u2013 a 22-year-old Stanford University student he had met via Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>However, when news that Te\u2019o\u2019s grandmother and girlfriend had died on the same day hit the headlines and the press began to scrutinise the story, the image Te\u2019o had of his girlfriend was soon destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>With Untold speaking to both Te\u2019o and Ronaiah \u2018Naya\u2019 Tuiasosopo \u2013 the person who catfished Te\u2019o \u2013 here\u2019s everything you need to know about the true story behind The Girlfriend Who Didn\u2019t Exist.<\/p> <h2><strong>Who is Manti Te\u2019o?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Untold-the-girlfriend-who-didnt-exist-3213799.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Untold-the-girlfriend-who-didnt-exist-3213799.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Manti Te\u2019o.<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>Netflix<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Manti Te\u2019o is a Hawaiian footballer, best known as an All-American player for Notre Dame at college level before being drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the 2013 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>When Te\u2019o joined the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team in 2009, he soon caught the eye of fans as one to watch thanks to his impressive performance on the field. However, he then hit the headlines in September 2012 upon revealing that both his grandmother and girlfriend \u2013 Stanford University student Lennay Kekua \u2013 had died on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>After the death of his grandmother, Te\u2019o was told by a supposed relative of Lennay\u2019s that the 22-year-old had died after being in a serious car accident and diagnosed with leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the tragedies, Te\u2019o didn\u2019t miss any football games and went on to be nominated as a candidate for the Heisman Trophy \u2013 an award given to the most outstanding player in college football.<\/p>\n<p>However, in January 2013, sports outlet Deadspin began an investigation into the identity of Te\u2019o\u2019s girlfriend Lennay, who Te\u2019o had met over Facebook and spoken to over the phone but never met in person.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/deadspin.com\/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-an-5976517&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Deadspin<\/a>\u00a0journalists Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey reported that Kekua had never existed, with there being no record of her birth or her attendance at Stanford, while the photos on her social media accounts were actually of someone completely different who had never met Te\u2019o.<\/p>\n<p>They reported that the person behind the Lennay Kekua social media accounts was most likely to be Ronaiah Tuiasosopo \u2013 who has since transitioned into a woman and goes by Naya Tuiasosopo \u2013 a classmate of the person whose photographs were used.<\/p>\n<p>After the Deadspin article was published, Notre Dame addressed the report, writing in a statement: \u201cOn Dec 26, Notre Dame coaches were informed by Manti Te\u2019o and his parents that Manti had been the victim of what appears to be a hoax in which someone using the fictitious name Lennay Kekua apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe University immediately initiated an investigation to assist Manti and his family in discovering the motive for and nature of this hoax. While the proper authorities will continue to investigate this troubling matter, this appears to be, at a minimum, a sad and very cruel deception to entertain its perpetrators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Te\u2019o later released a statement in which he said that he developed \u201can emotional relationship with a woman\u201d he met online and maintained what he thought was \u201can authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo realise that I was the victim of what was apparently someone\u2019s sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating,\u201d he said. \u201cIt further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother\u2019s death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Te\u2019o had previously said that he met Kekua in person after a football game, however Notre Dame director Jack Swarbrick confirmed that Te\u2019o had been in \u201cexclusively an online relationship\u201d with Kekua.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Jeremy Schaap in January 2013, Te\u2019o denied that he was involved in the hoax, clarifying that he had lied to his father about meeting Kekua in person as he knew \u201cit was crazy that [he] was with somebody that [he] didn\u2019t meet\u201d, according to <a href=\"\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/8859077\/manti-teo-notre-dame-fighting-irish-denies-being-part-hoax-late-girlfriend&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he had tried to speak with Kekua over video during their relationship, however the person on the other end was never seen while on the occasions they had planned to meet in person, Kekua would call off the meeting or send others in her place.<\/p>\n<p>Te\u2019o also said that he didn\u2019t know for sure that Lennay Kekua had never existed until Tuiasosopo admitted she was behind the hoax.<\/p>\n<p>The footballer went on to make an appearance on Katie Couric\u2019s show Katie, playing the voicemails Kekua left him to demonstrate how they sounded \u201clike a girl\u201d, while Tuiasosopo was interviewed on Dr Phil, admitting to the hoax and revealing that they had used the Kekua identity as an escape after falling in love with Te\u2019o.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Who is Manti Te\u2019o\u2019s catfish Ronaiah \u2018Naya\u2019 Tuiasosopo?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Ronaiah-Naya-Tuiasosopo-fc1c2f8.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;620&quot;\" height=\"&quot;413&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;&quot;\" title=\"&quot;&quot;\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Ronaiah \u2018Naya\u2019 Tuiasosopo in Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn\u2019t Exist.<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>Netflix<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Ronaiah \u2018Naya\u2019 Tuiasosopo was revealed to be the person behind Lennay Kekua\u2019s online identity, having used the photographs of a fellow classmate to pose as a 22-year-old Stanford University student called Lennay.<\/p>\n<p>While Tuiasosopo, who has transitioned since the catfishing scandal, was a quarterback in her sophomore year, she says in the documentary that she only became involved in football as her family were all about the three Fs: \u201cFaith, family and football\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted to play football out of obedience and I wanted to make my dad happy,\u201d she tells Untold.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst struggling with her identity, Tuiasosopo made a fake Facebook profile under the name of Lennay Kekua and befriended Manti Te\u2019o.<\/p>\n<p>The two developed a friendship and soon entered into a relationship, however Tuiasosopo would make excuses when Te\u2019o would want to meet up or speak over video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen these guys would want to meet up, I would be like, \u2018Dang.\u2019 That was kind of the symbol of the end,\u201d she tells the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Tuiasosopo subsequently called Te\u2019o as Lennay\u2019s brother to tell him that Lennay had been involved in a serious car accident and had been diagnosed with leukemia. Several months later, on the day Te\u2019o\u2019s grandmother died, Tuiasosopo tells Te\u2019o that Lennay had died, too.<\/p>\n<p>Tuiasosopo went on to meet Te\u2019o under the guise as Lennay\u2019s cousin after a football game \u2013 however, she later found that she \u201cknew in [her] heart that it was not over\u201d and rang Te\u2019o in December 2012 saying that she was still alive \u2013 leading Te\u2019o and his family to suspect that he was being catfished.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Where is Ronaiah \u2018Naya\u2019 Tuiasosopo now?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>After the catfishing scandal, Tuiasosopo worked as an Assistant Store Manager of Operations at a DIY shop.<\/p>\n<p>She now identifies as a transgender woman and after the hoax was revealed, appeared on Dr Phil, explaining: \u201cThe truth of it is that it happened, I grew feelings, I grew emotions that sooner or later I couldn\u2019t control anymore.\u201d She added that Kekua was \u201cnever intended to be a joke\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the documentary, she said: \u201cAfter this whole life with Lennay had ended, I couldn\u2019t give Lennay any more of my time. And I remember telling myself, \u2018You wanna be a girl, so be a girl.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She revealed that she moved back home to American Samoa and got in touch with the LGBT community. \u201cMoving forward, I had to just start living my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Untold Volume 2 arrives on <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/netflix&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Netflix<\/a> on Tuesday 16th August, with new episodes being released every Tuesday. \u00a0<\/strong><strong>C<\/strong><strong>heck out what else is on with our\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TV Guide<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<strong>or visit our\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/documentaries\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Documentaries<\/a>\u00a0hub.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/radiotimes.com\/magazine-subscription?utm_term=evergreen-article&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;0&quot;\">subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. 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