Which means Notre Dame apparently held an emotional press conference for a fake dead girl, but none for real one.Īs I’ve reported before, evidence that the University of Notre Dame covers up for sexual predators on the football team in hopes of winning some games has been mostly ignored. The death of Lennay Kekau after her dramatic relationship with Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o - widely reported by Sports Illustrated, CBS and many other media outlets – seems to have all been an elaborate hoax. So many tears for a fake dead girl, but none for a real one. The attention Notre Dame has given to the news brings up questions about how the university handles press, real and fake, about its football program and women, according to Melinda Henneberger: That was just from meeting her in Samoa.” When she was going through the loss of her father, I was - I offered a comforting shoulder and just someone to bounce her emotions off. We would talk off and on, just checking up on each other kind of thing. “I don’t think Manti was even in the picture, but she and I became good friends. “This was before her and Manti,” Maui’a told Wednesday evening. One NFL player, though, believes he met the woman in question.įullback Reagan Maui’a, who was on the Arizona Cardinals’ roster for five weeks last fall, said he met her, face-to-face, when he and other Polynesian teammates joined Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers on a mission to do charity work in American Samoa in June 2011. Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick described Te’o as the “most trusting” individual and one very big catch in a catfishing incident. The story, reported exhaustively by Deadspin’s Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey, is headspinningly intricate. Only now, according to Notre Dame, Lennay Kekua never existed and Te’o was the unwitting victim of an elaborate hoax. Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o had a phenomenal season, playing under the incredible emotional burden of the death of his girlfriend. Some still believe Kekua was real, though. He said he, like the news media, was duped into believing that Kekua died of leukemia in September. In a statement released by Notre Dame after the Deadspin report broke Wednesday, Te’o said that he believed that his “girlfriend” existed, at least online. VIDEO | The Post’s Katherine Boyle offers news in less than a minute on Manti Te’o, Algeria, Lance Armstrong and more.

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