Manti Te´o chora morte de namorada que nunca existiu

[Skip Bayless]

 

Star linebacker Manti Te'o, whose relationship with a deceased girlfriend was central to the narrative of his Heisman Trophy campaign and Notre Dame's unbeaten regular season, was the victim of an elaborate hoax, the school said Wednesday after a Deadspin story alleged the woman never existed.

 

In a statement provided by Creative Artists Agency, which signed him as a client last week, Te'o said he had developed an emotional relationship a woman he had met online and was "the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke."

 

According to a Notre Dame statement, Te'o and his parents informed the school's coaching staff on Dec. 26 – nearly two weeks before the Fighting Irish lost to Alabama in the BCS National Championship Game – that he had been the victim of a "sad and very cruel deception."

 

 

Te'o had talked openly during the season about his supposed relationship with a former Stanford student named Lennay Kekua, whom he claimed in a South Bend Tribune article to have met in 2009 after a football game. Kekua was said to have lost her battle with leukemia on Sept. 12, just hours after Te'o learned that his 72-year old grandmother had passed away.

 

The story of how Te'o dealt with massive personal tragedy became front and center in his rise to national consciousness. In interviews with Sports Illustrated and on the Jim Rome radio show, Te'o described talking to her by phone through the night as she dealt with the pain of chemotherapy treatments.

 

"That has to be the hardest thing that I've had to do so far; to be able to operate, and to be able to try to continue with my daily routine, but knowing that I just lost two women that I truly loved," Te'o said at a news conference on Oct. 4. "That was the hardest thing. And the other hardest thing was my girlfriend's service was the day of Michigan's game. And I remember when I found out I knew when they were going to close the casket and all that stuff, and it was during walk thru."

 

Deadspin's report, however, showed that there were no records of Kekua's death, nor any records that she was a student at Stanford. According to Deadspin, the photos on Kekua's Twitter account belonged to another woman, who was not named.

 

Te'o's statement contradicted the suggestion by Deadspin that he may have been in on the hoax along with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, a friend of Teo's who had allegedly provided the picture of the woman.

 

 

At minimum, Te'o acknowledged Wednesday that he had never met Kekua in person.

 

"We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her," Te'o said. "To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating."

 

Te'o played poorly in Notre Dame's 42-14 loss to Alabama, uncharacteristically missing several tackles. He is currently preparing for the NFL Draft but will not participate at next week's Senior Bowl.

 

"We know it's a hoax… The only question out there is exactly what Manti knew about it," Timothy Burke, one of the authors of the piece on Deadspin, said during an appearance Wednesday on CBS Radio.

None

 

 

Deadspin traces back the first national mention of Kekua to an article in the Nov. 28, 2009 edition of the South Bend Tribune.

 

The article quotes a friend of Tuiasosopo's as saying he was "80 percent sure" that Te'o was "in on it," and that "the two perpetrated Lennay Kekua's death with publicity in mind."

 

"Mostly, though," the articles continues, "the friend simply couldn't believe that Te'o would be stupid enough – or Ronaiah Tuiasosopo clever enough – to sustain the relationship for nearly a year."

 

O que as pessoas hoje em dia fazem para ganhar fama e titulos :o

[shelton]

Manti Te’o might have had a ‘real’ girlfriend after all

 

 

Manti Te’o grieving process was only about a couple months before he found a new young with whom to spend his time – and yes, she’s real.

TMZ discovered Alexandra del Pilar, a student at St. Mary’s, the all-girls school in South Bend, started tweeting about a relationship with Te’o in November.

 

 

She posted a photo on Instagram (above) of the two sitting on Santa’s lap. As an aside, Santa does not look pleased in this photo. And she also cited a newspaper blurb her grandfather wrote about Te’o with the comment, “Who would have known…”

 

There is no explicit mention of a dating relationship, but they seem pretty chummy. And now we have proof that Te’o does have the ability to talk to real girls.

 

The only question here is the grieving period. Te’o chronicled – several times over – a horrible September and early October with the death of his grandmother and Lennay Kekua, a woman he thought was his girlfriend. A month later, he’s hanging flowers in Del Pilar’s car.

 

Like everything in this story, it’s all up for discussion and interpretation.

[Ed]

Há secção/tópico para isto.

[freudianslip]

Já li várias notícias e continuo sem perceber.

[El Colosso]

Basicamente, "tinha" uma namorada, que ele disse que morreu com leucemia. No entanto, essa namorada nunca existiu.

[pedrituh_9]

Para quem não quiser ler :mrgreen:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbWmbu55v0

[Kaz]

Que é que andaste a fazer Lopes...

[Baggy_Baghdatis17]

Lennay Kekua told Manti Te’o she faked her death to evade drug dealers

 

Just when we all thought the story of Manti Te’o’s fake/dead girlfriend couldn’t get any weirder, it, well, does.

 

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser posted a story Friday saying Te’o's fictitious girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, called Te’o on Dec. 6 and told he she faked her death to evade drug dealers.

 

And we're officially off the rails.

 

Te’o and Kekua had been dating since 2011 when Kekua supposedly passed away in September after a short bout with leukemia. Te’o, heartbroken, used several media outlets to tell the story of his girlfriend and the inspiration she provided him, but said this week he did not know she did not exist. He did acknowledge that their relationship was online and on the phone and that he had never actually met Kekua in person.

 

So, imagine Te’o’s surprise when Kekua, who has been dead for nearly three months, calls Te’o and tells him her tale of woe.

 

According to the article, Kekua – or whoever the person is posing as Kekua – tried to start the relationship back up again, but Te’o was leery of it. He asked Kekua to send him a photo with a date stamp on it so he could verify that was really her. She sent him the photo, but it was not enough to convince him. In the following weeks, he went to his family and coaches and told them he had been the victim of a hoax that began in 2009.

 

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick confirmed Wednesday that Te’o did receive a call on Dec. 6 from a woman he thought to be his deceased girlfriend. Swarbrick also said after the initial call, there were subsequent attempts to restart the relationship.

 

It’s difficult to imagine which way this story is going to turn next. Whoever was impersonating Kekua must have had a reason to want to try to restart the relationship knowing it would be risky and Te’o might finally – after three years – find out it was all a scam.

 

Unfortunately, with Te’o not talking and lot of questions still floating around about Kekua, Te’o’s involvement in the hoax and Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the alleged perpetrator of the hoax, we might never know what really happened.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/lennay-kekau-told-manti-te-o-she-faked-222952624--ncaaf.html

[Baggy_Baghdatis17]

Editado 19 Janeiro 2013 por Baggy_Baghdatis17

[Sr.Sergio]

cada m*rda mais estranha.

[Grillo]

A qualidade jornalística do yahoo, "told he she faked" :estrelas:

[Ghelthon]

[Petar Musa]

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/6382808_700b.jpg

 

:lol: