00:01Manti Teo had an absolutely astounding senior year.
00:07His grandmother and girlfriend, Lene Kukua, had died the same night.
00:11He dedicated his season to them.
00:14It was an amazing story.
00:16I mean, they were with me, you know. I miss them.
00:19One problem, his girlfriend did not exist.
00:22I don't think anyone can appreciate how big a story it became.
00:26This was a very sophisticated hoax,
00:28perpetrated for reasons we can't understand.
00:31At this point, I'm at the Heisman ceremony.
00:34I don't know what to think, and I can't tell anybody what's going on.
00:37He'll never say it affected his play,
00:39but you could definitely see something was up.
00:41We just thought, what sick joke is someone trying to put on us?
00:44My uncle immediately said, I think you're getting catfished.
00:47All right, ready to roll, man?
00:50Out.
00:52I created this fictional character, Lene.
00:55I totally felt fear.
00:56I didn't have courage to just be like, this is who I am.
01:01It became evident that we had a major story.
01:03I was afraid this was going to affect my NFL future.
01:06I don't think he had any concept of how much the media will build you up
01:10and then tear you down.
01:12I didn't expect it to blow up so quickly.
01:15This is about to hit the fan.
01:16That's when everything went chaotic.
01:18I love you so much.
01:19There were two people. It was crazy.
01:22My whole world changed, and I'm questioning everything.
01:25Yeah.
01:26Your neighbor.
01:29I do not think so luckily and never see you around.
01:30As soon as he was dead the man won the devilیں,
01:34I'm trying to get too much poorer that he altened her.
01:34But now I'm trying to promotional her palette at
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