^UPDATE: Manti Te'o hoaxer Ronaiah Tuiasosopo says he was molested

[pooh555]

The whole lot of them are going to end up on Jerry Springer sooner rather than later

[Reg]

ESPN.com news services

In an interview with Dr. Phil McGraw that will air Thursday, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo says the voice of Manti Te'o's "girlfriend," Lennay Kekua, was his and that the star Notre Dame linebacker had no role in the hoax.

The first of a McGraw's two-part interview with Tuiasosopo will air Thursday on the "Dr. Phil" show. McGraw appeared Wednesday morning on NBC's "Today" show, which aired two clips of the Tuiasosopo interview.

"There were many times when Manti and Lennay have broken up," Tuiasosopo said, "but something would bring them back together, whether it was something going on in his life or Lennay's life or in this case my life."

McGraw said Tuiasosopo told him he fell deeply in love with Te'o and that for Tuiasosopo it was a romantic relationship.

"Here we have a young man that fell deeply, romantically in love," McGraw told NBC. "I asked him straight up, 'Was this a romantic relationship with you?' And he says yes. I said, 'Are you then therefore gay?' And he said, 'When you put it that way, yes.' And then he caught himself and said 'I am confused.' "

McGraw told NBC that Te'o "absolutely, unequivocally" wasn't involved in the hoax.

One theory for the hoax is that Te'o was trying to cover up a homosexual relationship. In her TV interview with Te'o last week, Katie Couric asked him if he was gay.

"No, far from it," he said. "Faaaaarrrr from it."

Tuiasosopo told McGraw that as Te'o became more famous he knew that the online hoax he started more than two years ago was going to blow up.

Tuiasosopo said: "I wanted to end it because after everything I had gone through I finally realized that I just had to move on with my life and had to get ... you know, my real me, Ronaiah ... I just had to start living and let this go."

McGraw said he spent time with Tuiasosopo and his parents.

"Ronaiah had a number of life experiences that damaged this young man in some very serious ways," he said.

[Brandon]

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[Jerry]

It goes from the ridiculous to the hilarious.

I can hear Yakety Sax playing right now.

[G-men]

Manti Te'o's EHarmony Ad, from Funny Or Die

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d41...eatured_videos

[Deb]

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the mastermind behind the Manti Te'o hoax, revealed during the second part of an interview with Dr. Phil McGraw that he had been molested as a child.

Tuiasosopo said tricking Te'o into falling for a fake woman he had created had "everything to do" with escaping real life.

He toldMcGraw that he had been repeatedly molested by a family friend starting when the 22-year-old Tuiasosopo was 12.

Tuiasosopo explained that by creating the fictitious love interest of Te'o, Lennay Kekua, he was able to live in an alternate reality and prove to himself that he was a good person
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Tuiasosopo did not identify his alleged molester in the interview and did not specify if he had gone to the authorities.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon...-phil/1883207/

[Deb]

So I have tried following this but I give up.

Is he gay?

Are they all just trying to get their minute in the spotlight?

And guess if they all need help Dr. Phil is the place to go.

On the abuse end I get the need to create a fantasy. This was a whopper though.