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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."

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.