Manti Te'o Still Talked About His Fake Girlfriend Dying After He Suspected That It Was A Hoax
On that day Te'o got a phone call from a number he believed to be Kekua's, and a voice he believed to be Kekua's told him she was not dead.
Twenty days later he told the school that thought he had been hoaxed.
But even after that December 6th call, Te'o referenced Kekua's death in interviews.
From an interview at the Heisman ceremony on December 8th (via Awful Announcing):
Chris Fowler: There were a lot of cameras around you this year, there was so much public sharing of very private moments, which shared moment will you never forget above the others?
From an interview with local CBS channel WSBT in South Bend (via Buzzfeed):
"I don't like cancer at all. I lost both my grandparents and my girlfriend to cancer."
This looks bad for Te'o, but it's still plausible that he didn't know it was a hoax after that December 6th phone call.
The Notre Dame AD said there were repeated calls to Te'o's phone from "Kekua" between December 6th and December 26th, when he was finally confident enough to come forward.
While he was freaked out by the initial call, it could have been taken several more days and bizarre phone calls to come to the realization that it was a hoax.
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