![]() There was never any indication there was anything fishy about what they said.’’Īttempts by the Globe to reach Brian Te’o were unsuccessful Wednesday night.ĭeadspin said the hoax was the brainchild of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who, according to ESPN, was Te’o’s high school classmate at Punahou School in Honolulu. “They answered everything in a very sincere way without hesitation. “They could not have been nicer and seemed genuine,’’ said Benjamin. I go through it every day.’’īenjamin said Te’o, a devout Mormon, “seemed very sincere and very emotional and affected by the death of his girlfriend.’’īenjamin also talked to Te’o’s father, Brian, whom she described as “sincere and genuine.’’ Te’o told the Globe’s Amalie Benjamin in November that the hardest part about losing his girlfriend was “every morning I wake up and my girlfriend is not on the phone it reminds that she’s gone. “But I knew that she made me promise that, ‘Babe, if anything happens to me, you promise that you’ll still stay over there and that you’ll play and that you’ll honor me through the way you play, and know that I would rather have you there.’ ” “You know, I really wanted to see her,’’ he said. Te’o was asked about staying in South Bend and not attending his girlfriend’s service during a press conference in early October. Hours after learning of the deaths, Te’o collected 12 tackles as he led the Fighting Irish to a 20-3 win over Michigan State, then said, “My family and my girlfriend’s family have received so much love and support from the Notre Dame family.’’ Te’o’s statement Wednesday does raise questions, considering some of his quotes during the season - which clearly give the perception that the relationship was more serious. The pictures of Kekua that media outlets have used are, according to the Deadspin report, photos from the Facebook account of a 22-year-old California woman, who was unaware her pictures were being used until she was contacted by the website. Deadspin said the Palo Alto, Calif., school has no record of a student by that name. To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone’s sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.’’Ī story in the South Bend Tribune said the two met after Notre Dame’s 2009 loss at Stanford, where Kekua allegedly was a student. 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 released a statement saying, “This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online.
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