It’s been nearly 10 years since one of the most bizarre and shocking stories in modern sports hit our Twitter feeds, and while we’ve learned more details of the story over the ensuing decade, the tale of Manti Te’o and his girlfriend who turned out to be hoax remains one of the most perplexing stories of the internet age. This week saw the premiere of a new Netflix documentary that aims to clear up some of that confusion. Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist attempts to tell the definitive story of what happened to Te’o and features extensive interviews with nearly every person directly involved in the story. It also reveals for the first time publicly that the person who perpetrated the hoax, known at the time as Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, now identifies as a woman and goes by the name Naya.
FTW spoke with Manti Te’o about the documentary to see how he felt about how accurately it tells the story and whether his feelings about anything that happened back in 2012 have changed after seeing the film.