You can say amen to that. It has been two years since a prostitute named Mike Jones claimed that he had a three-year deal with drug-fueled Haggard. Haggard, now 52, finally admitted to buying crystal meth and "sexual immorality." In one week, he resigned from his post and the pantheon of evangelical Christians (Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart) slaughtered by their own sins. Now, in his magazine interview the first time since the scandal. Haggard talks about his ongoing battle with his sexuality, his former church and its future plans Why now? For one thing, it grows "The Trials of Ted Haggard" an HBO documentary wincingly honest because the air on January 29. But as youacan feel it in the movie and hear the interview, Haggard still feel a lot of anger at New Life Church, and their same.
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On this day in late 2006, when he finally lost denials, Haggard felt exhausted and lost, and he did what came naturally: He put his faith in the church. "I was disoriented, confused, depressed. I throw my life away and I had to rely on these men, "he told Newsweek." I would have signed anything. "Under his severance pay and" recovery "offers, Haggard has agreed never to set foot in New Life again and leave Colorado for good (although the exile was lifted after a little over a year). He took his family and his severance pay, one year's salary, about $ 140 000 and Haggard began this refers to their life in exile. They spent the next 18 months traveling across Arizona with their two teenaged son crammed into a U-Haul, staying in a series of cheap hotels and at home "a little strange."
Cash and Christian mercy was in short supply, but at least one guy made sure to come calling: Alexandra Pelosi. Emmy Award-winning director (and daughter of Speaker Nancy) met Haggard in 2005 during the filming of "Friends of God", his tour of evangelical America. He says he initially traveled to Arizona to make sure that was not bad, and will never be a director, just started shooting when he saw Ted bring a rack of his church is part of the low-cost motels. He is replaced by Pelosi about 10 hours of material, spread over several visits. "This film was stolen by Ted," he says. "I was there, I had a camera, that is." Haggard says that the film is "just as well", and let him shoot. "This is the way I worked in my life: I always say yes," he says.
Unfortunately, the others said nothing. Struggle to find work in the secular world, is addressed to hang on "hundreds, maybe thousands" of ads in a suburb of door handles, and when you zoom in to ask Pelosi to its success, the smile disappears from the Grand Canyon of Haggard. He did not get the same answer. In another scene, Haggard was confident on the road for his first job interview for a layman, the position of consultant at the University of Phoenix, adult education center. "If I Google, I have a job," said Pelosi. Apparently they are, because he hit there too. Finally, countries are walking Haggard insurance, a prelude to his current success of the sale of the company, the Mortgage Protection Group. Now, he says, that makes about $ 1,000 a week.
And yet, even if he tries to turn the other cheek, the whole Christian forgiveness to dodge him. He believes that New Life to throw him out when he needed it most. As the film says: "The church is said to hell." Haggard is now firmly believes himself too hard. "I do not understand why, when the criminal 'caught, sometimes things that do not admit," he says. "I wanted overrepent, and I think I did overrepent. My [resignation] letter to the church, I said I'm a cheat and a liar, but I had not lied about anything except remain silent, what was happening inside me."
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