The unique story of former Notre Dame linebacker great Manti Te’o is set to become a Netflix documentary.
The two-part event from Netflix’s UNTOLD series, titled The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist, will chronicle the shocking saga of Te’o being the target of a catfishing hoax right as he reached the peak of his college football career with the Fighting Irish in 2012. The documentary will seek to tell the complete story of how Te’o’s supposed girlfriend, “Lennay Kekua,” didn’t actually exist and the media firestorm that the story generated at the time.
Te’o was already a standout linebacker at Notre Dame in his senior year in when he announced publicly that Kekua had died of leukemia, just hours after his grandmother died in September 2012. The story became an inspirational one as he helped lead Notre Dame to a BCS national championship game appearance that season.
