![]() But between them two, they each recognize the journey that each other had to go on," he said. "There’s no like, bad blood between these people. Maclain said that Tuiasosopo and Te'o don't harbor any ill will towards one another. She’s been going over the last couple of years ] and talking to her, we realized, like, 'Man, there’s probably a really incredible story here that goes beyond the headlines.'" We got Naya on the phone and she was incredibly raw and open and vulnerable about this whole journey. Then we reached out and told her a little bit about our show Untold. The executive producers of Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist, Chapman Way and Maclain Way, told the New York Post that they found Tuiasosopo on Instagram and that she details her own personal journey in the documentary. Since the scandal broke, Tuiasosopo has transitioned and began living as a woman. Naya Tuiasosopo speaks about her catfish relationship with Manti Te'o in the Netflix documentary "Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist."Ĭourtesy of Netflix What happened to Ronaiah Tuiasosopo? "And I realized right then in that moment, that I poured so much into Lennay, that I myself was getting nothing, and look what I was left with." I was like, 'Whoa, I've given so much into this,'" she said. Tuiasosopo explained that she "killed" Kekua after she and Te'o had gotten into an argument in which Te'o told Kekua that he didn't need her. "It hurt me. When he was under the understanding that he lost her, he realized all the good that Lennay had done for him." "I did all that I could to help this person become a better person, even though I wasn't getting nothing out of it." She added that Te'o seemed to be a better person after his girlfriend who didn't exist "died," noting, "If you really look at all his interviews, he felt that. "As twisted and confusing as it may be, yeah, I cared for this person," she insisted. Tuiasosopo said that she felt that Kekua had essentially become part of her and that her feelings for Te'o were genuine-and that the catfish heard 'round the world was neither a cruel joke nor a ploy to get any sort of financial incentive. "I pretty much had this escape of Lennay and this was where my heart had pretty much invested, not just time, but all of my energy went into this," Tuiasosopo, who then hadn't yet transitioned, said at the time. Phil in January 2013 ( via The Associated Press), Tuiasosopo said that Te'o had "no involvement" in the catfish and had no clue that Kekua wasn't real. Lennay Kekua was not a real person, but a persona adopted by Naya Tuiasosopo (who then went by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo). Related: 5 Takeaways From Manti Te'o's Interview With Katie Couric Who was Manti Te'o's catfish? None of that was true, because Kekua did not exist.Ĭonfused? So was the world. ![]() It was the same day that Te'o's grandmother, Annette Santiago, passed away.Įxcept. 12, 2012-depending on which source you seek-Kekua died. 10, 2012, with Te'o's father reportedly congratulating her over the phone. She spent time in treatment and was released from the hospital on Sept. ![]() In June 2012, as Kekua is recovering from injuries she suffered in the car crash, her doctors reportedly diagnosed her with leukemia. Some say it happened as soon as she and Te'o's relationship went from platonic to romantic, others say it was April, while others say it was in January. Sometime in 2012, Kekua got into a car accident that left her "near death," but different outlets report different timelines.
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