![]() ![]() I like the “H to the Izzo.” I like the old school stuff, but I didn't really listen to Jay-Z. Manti Te’o: Hov is probably not going to not like me for this, but I didn't really listen to Jay-Z like that. This conversation has been edited for clarity.ĮSQUIRE: If you were a JAY-Z album, which one would you be? As the film explores a connection that irreparably changed Te'o's life, what emerges is a fascinating portrait of two people who felt alone and unsure in themselves-and found something they were missing in each other. The result, Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist, premiered on Netflix this Tuesday. The directors managed to convince Tuiasosopo to tell her side of the story as well. I'm not ashamed of anything." So he does it. ![]() "I felt like, OK, I'm at a place where I'm ready to tell it. Why relive it all? "I talked to my parents, I talked to my team, and I realized that there are a lot of people out there that still have questions," Te'o says. The former Notre Dame star was finally feeling something resembling peace at the time. He wanted to make a documentary about the worst year of Te'o's life. In 2020, a film director, Tony Vainuku, called Te'o. Things started to feel a little bit better. "If Jay-Z says I've got to reveal it, then what I'm going to do is every time somebody asks me about it? I'm going to have those hard conversations and tell them everything." That gave him strength. "From that moment on, I was like, OK, I'm trying to heal from this thing," Te'o says over Zoom in August. Hov, voice carrying through an entire stadium, preaches, "You cannot heal what you don't reveal." Te'o, having gone through something wholly unimaginable, yet only possible in the era of clicks and smartphones, hears something he'll never forget. Turns out, Ronaiah "Naya" Tuiasosopo invented an online persona named Lennay Kekua and became close with Te'o through this alter ego before faking her own death-then, Deadspin broke the story. Second? When the girlfriend turned out to be a hoax. The first? At Notre Dame, where Te'o not only blazed his way into Heisman trophy contention, but did so while playing for his grandmother and girlfriend, both recently passed away. Te'o played for the New Orleans Saints, at the time, still lodged in the damn near never-ending come down from that one time, you're surely well-aware, when he was the biggest story in sports, two times over. He hasn’t played in the NFL since then.Manti Te'o's healing began-where else?-at a JAY-Z concert. He then played for the New Orleans Saints from 2017 to 2019 before ending up with the Chicago Bears in 2020. Te’o played for the then-San Diego Chargers from 2013 to 2016. I used to laugh at the jokes too but after seeing the emotional toll it took on him and the selfishness behind the hoax, I’ve changed my mindset. Everyone loves the tea, drama, and jokesĪfter watching the Manti Te’o doc on Netflix I gotta say I am so impressed at his positivity through everything. – If it had happened today, I unfortunately think the internet would’ve reacted the same. Much respect for him after watching the Netflix documentary and all he went through. #MantiTeoįormer #Chargers 2nd rd pick Manti Te'o and his real wife. Please accept my apology for any joke I ever made about you in the past. Amazingly tough-minded person, and a testament to perseverance. Manti was put through the damn ringer but still punched the clock every single day. Serves as a great reminder… you never fully know what people are going through. ![]()
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