Tait’s actions made his alleged victim question whether the former DC Talk singer was gay, but Tait’s alleged victim told TRR that Tait denied that he was gay and said, “No, man, of course not, of course not. Man, I’ve had these girlfriends I love.” Tait explained, “I’m just sorry, man, I don’t know. I don’t know what kind of got into me.”
The following year, Tait’s alleged victim stated that he was sexually assaulted by Tait at least six to 10 more times. When Tait’s alleged victim refused to give in to Tait’s advances, the singer allegedly had his victim lie by his side while Tait masturbated.
“There was never an encounter where I didn’t try to put my foot down and say, ‘That’s enough. I don’t want to do this,’” Tait’s alleged victim recalled. “But [Tait] almost always found a way to get what he wanted anyway, at least some degree of what he wanted.”
After Tait’s alleged victim married, the abuse stopped and Tait’s friendship grew distant, until Tait found out that the marriage had fallen apart and ended in divorce. Tait allegedly attempted to manipulate the recent divorcé into sexual behavior during a weekend getaway the two had in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but Tait’s alleged victim told TRR that he never gave in.
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The two drifted apart after Tait joined Newsboys in 2008 and hadn’t connected since Tait attended the funeral of his alleged victim’s mother in 2010. However, Tait called the alleged victim this past July, 15 years later. During that call, the alleged victim told his abuser, “I had no sexual past. I had no debaucherous past. I didn’t even drink…you broke me sexually.”
The following is an expert of Tait’s phone call to the alleged victim in July. During the call, Tait confessed to touching the alleged victim “inappropriately” and doing cocaine. Tait apologized, blamed himself, described how “bad” his actions have made things for everyone, and admitted he is “glad” he got exposed and “consequences came.” Tait said:
When I first made the advances on you, touched you inappropriately, and it just, it just bloomed out of control, and just, it got the, it got the best of me. All I can say is, from my heart and I’m truly sorry, man. I was sorry during the time, I was sorry after the time. I just never, I never, I never would say or did anything about, it escalated to something terrible and now it’s a, you know, it’s a big mess, and I have myself to blame…I’m sorry, and I mean, and I pray you can accept that apology and know it’s more than just that, but that’s a start…I just did cocaine and ran to the next thing, because that’s how bad it got for me, bro…it got so bad. And I thought this little sin in my life started off so, so, so small back in the day and I let this thing turn into an apex predator in my own house with me. This sin, this lion, this tiger lived with me, and it got bigger as I got bigger in music, and there was no way out…I’m glad consequences came. I’m glad. I’m glad, dude, as hard as it is on everybody—on the band. We’ve lost everything, dude. The band is done, everything, management’s done, the band’s fleet manager’s done. It’s bad. But that said, it took that to get me to my knees, and it sucks. I hate it with everything in my body. I’ll go to my grave with that. My confession’s like, that’s the worst. It’s horrible, it’s horrible, it’s horrible…I deserve your worst treatment, if you need to. I mean, I deserve everything you want to do to me, because, you know what? I changed your life forever, and not for the better.
Listen to the audio here.
Tait’s alleged victim told TRR that he doesn’t want Tait to be able to “make a comeback tour,” so he is sharing the audio from phone call. “I don’t want him to publish a book. I don’t want him to come out as a solo artist and do his big forgiveness and repentance [tour],” he said. “I want his life in the limelight to be over. I want all the joys and luxuries of that [over] too. He’s lived off of the souls of other people for long enough.”
