text: In advance of this afternoon's interview, Katie Couric's show has released recordings of three voicemails provided by Manti Te'o. The messages were left on Te'o's phone by who he believed was Lennay Kekua. As the Daily News reported this morning, hoaxer Ronaiah Tuiasosopo claims he disguised his voice over the phone, and Te'o was always talking to Tuiasosopo posing as a woman. 
   
   Lennay speaks to Te'o before her first chemotherapy session: 
   
   This is a jealous Kekua accusing Te'o of having a girl in his room: 
   
   This voicemail was left for Te'o on Sept. 11, 2012, the day Kekua claimed she had been released from the hospital. (Original accounts of Te'o's tragedy put her release on Sept. 10.) On the 12th, she "died." 
   
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   Yeah, that absolutely sounds like a woman. Couric saw what are reported to be Te'o's phone records, and claims there were "dozens of calls, some hours long, to one phone number." ESPN's spreadsheet had indicated "more than 1,000" calls over a four-month span. 
   
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   Katie Couric's site has all the messages, but it keeps going down so we're hosting them here. ||||| Who is Lennay Kekua? Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o has claimed he is the victim of a cruel hoax after it was revealed that his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, never existed and that her death was faked. He says he believed that she was real and that he spent hours talking on the phone with Lennay, sometimes even falling asleep with her on the other end of the line. Katie reviewed Manti’s phone records and there were, in fact, dozens of calls, some hours long, to one phone number, the number Manti Te’o says belongs to Lennay Kekua. So who was this person on the other end of the phone? Listen to the voicemails Manti Te’o provided exclusively to “Katie”: 
   
   Hear the following voicemails from Lennay Kekua: 
   
   One she left on what she said was her first day of chemo treatment: 
   
   
   
   One she left accusing Manti of having someone else in his room: 
   
   
   
   One she left on the day she said she was released from the hospital, September 11th, 2012: 
   
  
target: – The latest twist in the Manti Te'o saga is that he spoke on the phone for hundreds of hours with a man posing as his non-existent girlfriend. Now Te'o has released three voicemails to Katie Couric's show, and you can grade the apparent falsetto yourself. The voice allegedly belongs to hoaxster Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, and Deadspin also has the audio here. In an interview with Couric, meanwhile, Te'o shot down the rumor that he's gay, notes TMZ. Couric: "One of the many theories making the rounds is somehow you created this whole scenario to cover your sexual orientation. Are you gay?" Te'o: "No, far from it. Farrr from it."