Earlier this month, former porn star Joshua Broome released a new book, “7 Lies That Will Ruin Your Life: What My Journey From Porn Star to Preacher Taught Me About the Truth That Sets Us Free.”
In it, Broome uses his own journey of redemption as a point of reference, pairing his personal experiences with biblical truth to show how we can experience healing in Jesus.
Broome left the porn industry in 2013 and gave his life to Jesus on Easter Sunday in 2015. He got married to his wife, Hope, in July 2016. Broome started at Liberty University in 2018 and was ordained as a pastor and began serving on staff at Life.Church in 2019. He graduated from Liberty University in 2020.
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Today, Broome travels the country sharing his testimony. His book comes on the heels of the release of his tell-all docuseries, titled “Unmentionable: The Story of the Prodigal Pornstar.”
Broome told ChurchLeaders that he first felt the desire to write his memoir four years ago after numerous people asked him how he got from where he was to where he is now. The book is an attempt to capture the nuances of what God has done in his life.
“And it’s a lot. There’s a lot of wins. There’s a lot losses. There’s a lot of lessons. So I wanted to really capture that and share that,” he said.
As he started talking to book publishers, Broome realized that he wanted to write something that intersected with culture. Broome decided to use his story “to speak into the lies that culture propagates” in order to “confront those things with truth” because that’s what changed his life.
Broome shared that after leaving the porn industry and accepting Jesus, he still believed that he was “worthless” and had “no value.” He once even expressed to his wife that he was “no good.”
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“I’m this kid that his dad didn’t want and I’ve done historically bad things,” he recalled. “And not only have I done bad things, those bad things are tangibly found” on the internet. “So I’ve got a scarlet letter. What what good am I?” Broome said to Hope.
