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Ronaiah Tuiasosopo says he fell deeply in love with Manti Te’o

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Ronaiah Tuiasosopo said that he fell deeply in love with Manti Te’o (J. Meric/Getty Images)

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man on the phone impersonating Lennay Kekua, said he fell deeply in love with Manti Te’o over the course of their relationship but maintains the widely disputed theory that Te’o was in no way involved in the hoax that was brought to light earlier in January.

According to an interview set to air on Thursday that Tuiasosopo did with Dr. Phil McGraw, better known as “Dr. Phil,” Teo and the woman he believed to be Lennay Kekua had broken up many times throughout the course of their relationship:

“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.”

In a January interview with Katie Couric, Te’o was asked if he is gay, to which he responded by saying, “No, far from it. Faaaaarrrr from it.” When Tuiasosopo was asked by McGraw the same question about himself in part one of the interview set to air on Thursday, Tuiasosopo gave a different answer:

“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.’ “

  • Published On Jan 30, 2013
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    JoeKidd1992 23 pts

    "Hey, guys I admit I told you a lot of lies before, but NOW I'm telling you the truth. Please, believe me!!"

     

    The press: "Ok, Manti!"

    JoeKidd1992 23 pts

    Manti, why don't you tell that nice boy you love him? I love you with all-a my heart, if I don't see-a you again soon, I'm-a gonna die.

    JoeyBagadoughnutz 92 pts

    deer, can you hand me the buck scent please, i have a bike race next week ,

     

    at the le tour de soy sauce in san fran

    JoeKidd1992 23 pts

     JoeyBagadoughnutz Wow, you're going to live and die by that story. It's going to be a sad day around your house when you realize nothing is coming from it.

    Tigameat 66 pts

    Check out his shirt.  Does that stand for "I M Gay"?

    JoeyBagadoughnutz 92 pts

    does this mean soy sauce is out of the question ?

    slapshot18 14 pts

    Isn't anybody else bored with this cartoon show?

    jdrago 31 pts

    Ronaiah Tuiasosopo is georgekaplan101

    Mike72 20 pts

     Tigameat  jdrago

     Has georgekraplan101 been on here at since the game?

    db3300 6 pts

    I don't care if he's Richard Freaking Simmons.  If he gets 20 sacks a year and can cover the TE coming out of the backfield, I want my team to sign him.

    JoeyBagadoughnutz 92 pts

     db3300 he can cover a tight end, and a WIDE receiver !!!!!

    dt 48 pts

     JoeyBagadoughnutz  db3300 Then he'll call and want his quarterback

    Tigameat 66 pts

     db3300

     Better hope there's no pro team better than Bama!!  Oh, sorry, he was distracted!! 

    Mike72 20 pts

     db3300we already seen that against nfl type players he cant do crap.

     
    JoeKidd1992 23 pts

     db3300 He didn't even get 20 sacks his whole career at Notre Dame of 4 years.

    HaiHo 24 pts

    This story is so gay...so are most reporters and executives that run the US media.  We are fed these stories everyday...not that there's anything wrong with it...just pointing out the facts...look...I am reading it and commenting it...lol....

     

    Wisconsin Death Trip 500 pts

    Nothing like gay stalkers.....or blind gay love....a perfect story for the now SI/TMZ love-fest.

    Cool 291 pts

    These two liars have been involved for a couple years and just forgot to mention that their real girlfriends were actually guys.   Too bad that now these two lovebirds really do have to break up.  

    Anonymous_Source 62 pts

    It's like the train wreck that just won't end. Long after the excitement of initial impact, it is still going and I am now sitting in a lawn chair with a glass of lemonade.

    Igautt_Akleu 16 pts

    Manti Te'o is/was Tuiasosopo's boyfriend, and the people who still refuse to believe that are even more gullible than Manti supposedly is for believing all of the manufactured-after-the-fact "evidence", some of which is blatantly contradictory, specifically designed to keep you away from Manti's closet. All of these sympathetic media personalities telling you what to believe in the face of this farce are simply determined to protect Manti from being outed, which would be a media sin. Make no mistake - Manti Te'o is gay, and that should be OK. But it's not. At least not as far as the NFL is concerned. Millions of dollars are at stake here hinging on whether or not he's gay, hence the elaborate cover-up. Wake the **** up, people.

    stabmasterarson21 307 pts

     Igautt_Akleu Quit pushing the gay agenda unless you're.....oh snap, LOL!

    freighthogger 39 pts

    Ray Finkle = Ronaiah Tuiasosopo

    Lois Einhorn = Lennay Kekua

    Jim Carrey =  Manti Te'o

    jacksonbliss 18 pts

    I'm sorry, but the "widely disputed theory" has become the opposite--a theory disputed only by the fringe/hater faction.  The evidence has become overwhelming that Teo was not part of this, but for haters, he's guilty by association or because he didn't hold a press conference the INSTANT he got a call on 6 December telling him that LK was still alive (which, ironically, Manti Teo thought was a hoax).  But let's not facts get in the way of this narrative:  Even though Ronaiah Tuiasosopo confessed to Dr. Phil and a friend from his LDS church about the hoax, even though he confessed to Manti Teo, even though he confessed to the woman whose picture he used, even though Ronaiah Tuiasosopo has done the same hoax to another person 2 years ago with the same picture, and even though Ronaiah Tuiasosopo lied in his try-out for "The Voice" about a tragic car accident, even though there are phone records, and even though Teo's parents talked to Ronaiah Tuiasosopo impersonating Lenny Kekua on the phone, by all means, let's continue to destroy the career of Manti Teo who should have known better/is dumb/gullible/deserves what he gets. 

    donald5 226 pts

    So it sounds like this Tuiasopop kid has spent a majority of his adult life lying to people... but now we are supposed to take him at his word.  Somehow I have a hard time believing a person who seems to be VERY GOOD at lying. 

    sportssleuth 5 pts

    Tuiasosopo did not say, “No, far from it. Faaaaarrrr from it" in an interview with Katie Couric. Manti Te'o said that. Also, who is still widely disputing that Te'o wasn't involved in the hoax? Seems most people realize that he wasn't, but that he might have embellished a love story he thought to be true. Awful summary here, SI. I expect better.  

    EnoughWithFantasyLand 9 pts

    What is there to be confused about? Non-gay-dudes do not have romantic thoughts about another dude. That is strictly a gay-dude attribute.