Manti Te’o – The Jig Is Officially Up

Well, that explains everything and of course, there was some gayness involved.

However, it came from the other side of the story.

Disgraced college footballer Manti Te’o finally told his full side of the “Lennay Kekua” story to Oprah Winfrey Katie Couric earlier today and with his admission came even more to the story of lies, phone calls, admissions, apologies and slightly even more confusion.

As we tend to do with continuous crazy stories like these, it’s time for the bullet points. Head on after the jump for the updates.

During the hour long sit down with Te’o and his family:

the young footballer revealed that he definitely wasn’t gay. “Far from it”, he claimed.

he shared voice mails from “Lennay Kekua” (which have now been proven to be his acquaintance, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo disguising his voice) as well as Tuiasosopo’s confession and apology via Twitter, part of which stated that he “completely accept[s] the consequences to the pain [he] caused”.

he expressed that he’s unsure on whether or not the hoax will affect his draft pick-up into the NFL: “Whatever happens happens … I hope and pray that good happens.”

You can check out the full interview here (it’s in six parts)… but there’s more!

If you’re wondering just why Ronaniah Tuiasosopo dreamed up this entire situation, it’s simple — it’s seems as if he was in love with Te’o… or had “intense feelings” for him. You can read between the lines, people.

    Sources very close to Ronaiah tell TMZ … he struggled for years trying to adapt to the expectations of his culture, his religion and his family.  Ronaiah, we’re told, never had a serious physical relationship with anyone and created a female persona online as a way to vent his feelings.

    We’re told Ronaiah used the female persona in many encounters, but so far there’s no evidence he became intensely emotionally attached to anyone — until Manti.  We’ve confirmed when Ronaiah spoke with Manti as “Lennay Kekua” he used his own voice.

The fact that Ronaiah sounds just like a woman is scary enough, but the story gets into a bit of saddening territory.

Feeling extremely guilty, he decided to come clean to Te’o last month, but only half way — he never revealed he was actually a man; just that “Lennay” didn’t exist and hoped to continue on as a different woman, which Te’o refused.

Sources also say that Ronaiah hasn’t said much to anyone since the discovery of this tale, having “little emotion” about it all — which all points back to a childhood of “deep fantasy”.

This all could’ve been proven quickly with a damn web cam. Just sayin’.

Via Tabloid Prodigy