Radio host offers Rachel Jeantel a full ride to college

(CNN) She might still be figuring out what she wants to study but her finances just got a lot more clear.

On Tuesday radio host Tom Joyner offered Rachel Jeantel a friend who was on the phone with Trayvon Martin the night he was killed a full ride to college.

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Jeantel 19 spoke to CNN's Piers Morgan Live on Monday night.

Joyner said he was so touched by what she said then and during her testimony during the trial of George Zimmerman that he was moved to help.

Zimmerman a former neighborhood watch volunteer was acquitted of a second degree murder charge in Martin's shooting death.

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Rachel here's my offer to you. If you want to graduate from high school and go to an HBCU even if it's not in Florida but especially Florida ... If you want to do that I want to help you do that Joyner said during his radio show Tuesday referring to historically black colleges and universities.

I will help you get tutors to get you out of high school tutors to help you pass the SAT and I will give you a full ride scholarship to any HBCU you'd like.

Jeantel who said she might want to go into law enforcement thanked Joyner.

The host later appeared on CNN's Piers Morgan Live Tuesday night.

He described how Jeantel's life has been turned upside down in the past year and half by Martin's death and the trial.

We talked to her people today and it's going to take some work first of all to get her a high school diploma and get her ready for the SAT test and then entered into college. But we are going to do that he said.

She deserves a chance Joyner added.

Jeantel said Monday that she was disappointed upset angry questioning and mad at Zimmerman's acquittal.

She found herself in an unforgiving spotlight of the nationally televised trial during which viewers criticized her dress her weight her speech and her combative manner on the stand. She admitted to lying about her age and her reasons for skipping Martin's funeral.

She called the verdict BS and said Martin 17 was never aggressive.

He was a calm chill loving person who loved his family definitely his mother and a good friend Jeantel said.

CNN's Matt Smith contributed to this report.

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