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Originally Posted by dnh83
If Te'o is telling the truth, they gotta talk to the chick who played the gf. She talked to him every night for weeks. At some point she becomes the main person even if it was originally 'sopo's idea. Whatever bs she was feeding Te'o, he was buying it.
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Originally Posted by golfnutt
WHO TALKED TO HIM FOR EIGHT HOURS?!
What did they talk about? Who the hell could make up a story for eight hours and for what? For lulz?
People keep talking about this girl who was on the phone every night for weeks. Do we have any evidence of this existing besides Te'o saying that happened? I might be mixing up stories here, but my impression is:
-Te'o was duped into have some sort of online relationship, but never considered the girl his gf. Might have embellished it a little bit with his friends but nothing too crazy. This started in 2011, sometime before the Stanford game (because he apparently asked a Stanford player if he knew Lennay)
-Minor catfishing over the next year, but again nothing too crazy
-He finds out that the girl "died" and plays up the girlfriend angle when everyone gave him all that attention
-Discovers it's a hoax and decides, **** it, let's roll with it
-Retroactively makes up stories about how he met her in 2009 (when in reality the hoax started in 2011), how much time he spent on the phone with her and how much he loved her, etc.
Te'o could be telling the truth about being hoaxed from 2011-2012 and still have never talked to anyone. My impression is that was all stuff made up later for the publicity (including stuff about meeting her in 2009, etc). So this wasn't as long or as elaborate a hoax as people thought, just something that Te'o majorly embellished later.