“Everybody deserves a second chance. He got his from the Lord, from myself. And I was growing in wholeness. He was growing in notoriety as this godly man, as this incredibly generous man, as this anointed teacher,” she continued. “So I’m thinking, ‘We did it. You know? We really did it.’”
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After the allegations surrounding Bickle came to light last October, Woods said that she sent Bickle a text message with just three question marks.
Bickle called her, Woods said, and told her that are “some people right now who are saying some false things about” him and that he needed to get a lawyer.
Woods said Bickle warned her that she might be contacted by investigators but that she didn’t have to talk to anyone. She said that he told her that if she was contacted that she could tell investigators that “he’s the godliest man.”
“I know you said this over the years that you’ve forgiven me, but I just want to say it again. Please forgive me. I was clueless. I could have gone to jail,” Woods said Bickle told her.
She replied, “And I just said, ‘I forgive you. It’s done. We’re on the other side of this.’”
After that, Woods said Bickle began to text her frequently, and she told him that he didn’t have any reason to “fear her” because she didn’t want to “get in this.”
Woods said that Bickle even showed her the statement he released in December 2023 before it went public because he wanted to hear her thoughts on it.
“He can’t afford to have me crack,” Woods said she now realizes. “He can’t afford to have me go to a counselor or you know, like, lose it, because he doesn’t know what I’ll say. He needs me to be OK.”
It was after lying to three loved ones who asked her direct questions regarding her relationship with Bickle that Woods said she decided to come forward with her story.
“And suddenly here he is, all these years later, controlling the narrative of my life. This chafes my soul to live as a liar. It’s not who I am. And I thought, ‘I can’t do this.’ And then I realized he’s doing this to these younger women…all of them,” Wood said. “And I just snapped.”
That prompted Woods to contact lawyer Boz Tchividjian—who is now representing her—file a police report, and write down her story.
Woods concluded by stating that no one can “script your life for you” or “control the narrative of your life.” Regardless of how “dark the chapters are, they don’t define you.”
