Monday, February 4, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013

Stop what you're doing, Manti Te'o released voicemails from 'Lennay'

Stop what you're doing and listen to these voicemails from "Lennay Kekua."

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Stop what you're doing, Manti Te'o released voicemails from 'Lennay'

POSTED: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 2:02 PM
This Jan. 22, 2013 photo released by ABC Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, right, speaking with host Katie Couric during an interview for "Katie," in New York. Te'o has told Katie Couric that he briefly lied about his online girlfriend after discovering she didn't exist, while maintaining that he had no part in creating the hoax. Pressed by Couric to admit that he was in on the deception, Te'o said he believed that his girlfriend Lennay Kekua had died of cancer and didn't lie about it until December. The interview will air on Thursday, Jan. 24. (AP Photo/Disney-ABC, Lorenzo Bevilaqua)

Stop what you're doing and listen to these voicemails from "Lennay Kekua."

Manti Te'o released those three voicemails ahead of the airing of his first television interview since this whole debaccle started. Te'o says he was under the impression that the person leaving him those voicemails was his "girlfriend," "Lennay Kekua."

The first voicemail is short and sweet. In the second, "Lennay" is hysterical and rambling about some girl in Te'o's room. The third is an update on her status and was reportedly left the day she was "released from the hospital." She "died" the next day.

Milton Grimes, the lawyer representing Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, says that his client altered his voice when speaking with Te'o so that he'd sound like a woman. Te'o's interview with Couric airs on ABC at 3 p.m. Thursday.

Mike Bertha @ 2:02 PM  Permalink | 7 comments
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Comments  (7)
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:06 PM, 01/24/2013
    I still have no idea why this is a story.
    Dan in Holmesburg
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:36 PM, 01/24/2013
    This dude should have just gone to washy-washy to get his Longfellow straightened out. None of those broads would have known who he was. And he would have gotten a complimentary 8 oz can of Bud. Win-win.
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:56 PM, 01/24/2013
    how does this dude make his voice sound that girly?
    Ryan
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:20 PM, 01/24/2013
    This entire story is a waste of time, space, and my intelligence. Who cares?
    Philly Always
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:36 PM, 01/24/2013
    Tonner. "u cop?"
    Roger Podacter
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:02 PM, 01/24/2013
    Haha, Philly Always...but you read it, too, just like the rest of us. It's just too crazy to be real. Dude was talkin' to a DUDE and probably having phone sex and all. I don't know, more and more I'm thinking this was all a cover for his being gay. It's just too weird and 'gay' still does not work in locker rooms.
    PhillySubsMac
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:52 PM, 01/25/2013
    I totally think he is probably gay and used "imaginary gf" to keep folks guessing. Who cares dude! Everyone can come out now or just not in football? Why is this a story? Stop talking about this - all media!
    squirrel


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