Ronaiah Tuiasosopo gave the second part of his interview with Dr. Phil on Friday and during the taping he tried to prove that he was the voice behind Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend Lennay Kekua.
The host asked Tuiasosopo to perform the voice of Lennay Kekua behind a privacy screen to show how he kept the hoax going. There were reports that said Tuiasosopo was the only person talking to Te'o as his girlfriend, but the Associated Press later reported that one of his cousins also helped and spoke to Te'o.
Tuiasosopo has received vocal and dramatic training and said that he was the only person who spoke to the linebacker. On Dr. Phil, he tried to prove it with a clean phone and producer serving as a witness to it.
HERE is the VIDEO of Tuiasosopo and Dr. Phil performing the test.
The recording of the voice was sent to voice analysts, one of whom concluded Tuiasosopo was "a true talent" who had abilities the analyst had never seen before. The experts also said that the voice matched the voicemails previously released that depicted Tuiasosopo talking to Te'o.
The Heisman Trophy finalist "thought it was a female he was talking with," lawyer Milton Grimes acknowledged to the Daily News. "It was Ronaiah as Lennay."
Deadspin has one of the voicemails, which can be heard HERE.
Later in the interview he also spoke about how he was molested as a child at 12 years old by a family friend, although he did not go into specifics.
During the first session, Tuiasosopo admitted he was in love with Te'o and said that he was the main person behind the hoax and the Notre Dame linebacker was in the dark.
"There were many times when Manti and Lennay have broken up," Tuiasosopo said, "but something would bring them back together, whether it was something going on in his life or Lennay's life or in this case my life."
McGraw said that Tuiasosopo fell deeply in love with Te'o and that it turned into a romantic relationship for him.
"Here we have a young man that fell deeply, romantically in love," McGraw told NBC. "I asked him straight up, 'Was this a romantic relationship with you?' And he says yes. I said, 'Are you then therefore gay?' And he said, 'When you put it that way, yes.' And then he caught himself and said 'I am confused.' "
McGraw told NBC that Te'o "absolutely, unequivocally" wasn't involved in the hoax.
The hoax has been one of the strangest stories in recent memory and all got started when Deadspin.com reported that the inspirational story about Te'o using his girlfriend's death from leukemia as an inspiration was found out to be a hoax. The report says that the girl Te'o claimed was his girlfriend was a made up identity and that the woman, Lennay Kekua, did not exist.
