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Originally Posted by JaredL
I probably missed something obvious, kind of stopped following the story, but what's the consensus on when Te'o knew it was fake and did he give any kind of explanation for continuing to lie about it afterward?
hard to say.
the official story is that he was notified about it in early December, and informed ND of this in late December. but of course his story to Schapp and/or Couric is that he still doesn't know for sure or not, or something. even after everyone else in the world acknowledged that this was a fake girl that didn't exist.
i'm thinking that he knew earlier than that, maybe even before she "died". i'm still as to why she was killed off when she was (did Derpy Phil ask about that?). it's very weird to me that according to the original story, a lot of the backstory on her was filled in through Manti's dad through the ND paper in October. that's where a lot of stuff confirming she was indeed real came from. now why does that happen after she dies? were people already digging into it, and they knew it was fake already?
also in Deadspin's follow-up on the twitter activity, Te'o stopped tweeting about Lennay (or to her fake sister, or maybe both, i forget) sometime in November. so did he finally find out for real in November? were people closing in on the story in November? idk.
kinda seems weird that he wouldn't have found out in September at the latest though, around the time she "died". like he didn't try to get in contact with the family or anything? send a letter to be read at the funeral or something if he couldn't make it there? didn't look around for an obituary? nothing. she got out of the hospital one day, suddenly died the next, he sent flowers to Ronaiah's house or something, the end.
of course i guess this works if he's a huge moron, who never cared much about this girl, but played it up in the media, etc like he did. of course this doesn't jive at all with spending every waking minute on the phone with "her" basically.
can anyone sort this out? still feel like everyone is just lying about everything. Manti lied about meeting her, the dad lied off of those lies, and they were all coincidentally lying about the main issue at hand, that she wasn't real. how convenient. but they're not liars, trust them.
gay angle still seeming pretty possible tbh.