Manti Te'o's Dead girlfriend never existed?

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bam15 said:
A megalomaniacal sociopath. This entire thing is odd. You can't make this stuff up. Someone is lying and I find it hard to believe that he was deceived by an imaginary girlfriend or that he would perpetuate this entire thing. They met, kept a long-distance relationship, and then she ended the relationship with some faux ailment and eventually death. The girl actually exists, she ran a fake name and education, etc. I'm still not sure what the the goal was by the girl if true.
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To me...that makes the most sense. Why would someone do that? Who the hell knows? Makes more sense than faking a girlfriend and having her die for publicity.

Teo just said it was an online relationship, fell in love for her, and that someone played a sick hoax on him.
 
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zjcvols said:
Let's, for a second, imagine this conversation:

Friend (Ronnie Tuisappo or whatever): "Dude, I got an idea as to how to boost your popularity."

Manti: "Okay, let's hear it."

Ronnie: "You have this fake girlfriend for a year or so. We put it on twitter and everything. Then, we say she dies of leukemia. People will eat it up!"

Manti: "Sounds good! Let's do it!"

Who has that conversation?

Remember, the article states they met either in 2009 or starting twittering each other in 2010. So they carried this out for allegedly 2-3 years...
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It's totally ridiculous. By the same token, the kind of logic it takes to make up a dead girlfriend wouldn't make any sense to us.
 
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therealUT said:
Or, he could be lying, because he did not want to say, "Yeah, I chatted with her and fapped to pictures she was sending every night".
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Which is more likely he did this, just saying a lot of stuff points to he was pranked and then screwed himself by lying and stretching the truth of how much interaction they actually had.
 
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CABVOL said:
But I thought she came to Hawaii to see him?
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He probably was embarrassed that he had an online relationship and did not want to admit to his parents it was just an online relationship and that he had not met her.

If what he says is true.
 
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Another question, if he listened to her sleep on the phone every night for 4 months, did he not hear nurses or her family or beeps or anything in the background? He had to have made that up
 
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Te'o issued a statement Tuesday afternoon:

"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. 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.

"To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

"It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life.

"I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been.

"In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was.

"Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft."


right.....even though they met in Hawaii.
 
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zjcvols said:
He probably was embarrassed that he had an online relationship and did not want to admit to his parents it was just an online relationship and that he had not met her.

If what he says is true.
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Can see that as a possibility.

Don't believe we have heard the last of this, though...
 
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therealUT said:
What do you mean it does not appear to be the case? The reverse does not appear to be the case, either. The only thing that can be asserted is that she did not exist. There are reasons to believe that Te'o was a victim; there are reasons to believe that Te'o was in on it. Both reasons involve Te'o being stupid, but one of them is a stupidity induced by infatuation (which we can all attest to), the other is just massive, cold, calculating idiocy.
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People who have relationships like that are desperate for something. And ones craving the attention of a woman via twitter aren't normally the heisman-contending star of Notre Dame's football team.

Seems very unlikely.
 
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