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New Netflix doc details Manti Te'o and the fake girlfriend hoax

Remember Manti Te'o? The former Notre Dame linebacker who was the victim of a wild catfishing hoax in 2013? Well, his story will be featured in Netflix's documentary series, "The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist."

The two-part show will detail one of the craziest moments in college football history. Three months after Te'o told the media his girlfriend, a Stanford student named Lennay Kekua, died of leukemia, a story from Deadspin found that Kekua was actually a creation of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, an acquaintance of Te'o's who now goes by Naya Tuiasosopo as a transgender woman.

Te'o had dedicated his senior season at Notre Dame to Kekua and his grandmother after finding out both died on the same night.