But more importantly, there were people that had supported me all those years, and they kind of just supported me because they loved me. Talk to your family about it, so I did.Īnd through a couple of weeks, I started to realize that there are a lot of people that still had questions and a lot of people that were confused. And he said, OK, well, just think about it. And I was at so much peace in my life at that time that I told him, I was like, listen, I don't feel the need to tell it at this time. And after the whole conversation, he said, bro, you sound like you're ready to tell it. Again, I went through all the details with him. And I - he and I had a great conversation. TE'O: Tony Vainuku is one of the directors of this piece, and so he told me about the project. But why did you agree to participate in this film? MARTIN: I can imagine that this was a really difficult period in your life and you probably would have been just fine not revisiting it. Thank you so much for talking to us about this.
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But this time, Manti Te'o tells his side of the story at length in the film, which is part of the Netflix series "Untold." It's called "The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist." And Manti Te'o is with us now to tell us more. Now there's a new documentary that shines new light onto a story that ignited a media frenzy and offered a look at what at the time seemed a rare look at the ugly side of social media. Almost overnight, he went from being a college football icon to the target of ridicule and attack. She calls herself Naya now and we'll hear more from her later.īut it was Manti Te'o who paid the price, at least at first. Ronaiah has since come out as a transgender woman. But somebody did do that - Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. But when this happened in 2013, it's probably fair to say that many people, maybe most, had no idea that somebody would do something like that. That's when somebody uses a false identity to deceive others online, often to create a relationship. These days, a lot of people have heard the term catfishing. MARTIN: That's the voice of Tim Burke, the former Deadspin reporter who broke the news of an elaborate hoax aimed at former Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te'o. One problem - his girlfriend did not exist. TIM BURKE: There were millions and millions of people who knew that there was a Notre Dame football player whose grandmother and girlfriend had died the same night and that he dedicated his season to them.
And finally today, whether you care about sports or football or not, it's one of those stories that once you heard it, it was hard to forget.
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