‘I’m Changing’—Carl Lentz Discusses Affair, Addictions, Childhood Sex Abuse Following Return to Spotlight

Later in the interview, Lentz was joined by Laura, who also described the day she learned of her husband’s infidelity.

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“I definitely went straight into shock…It was a big shaking for me,” she said. “Because I had no idea.” Laura said that she used to look at others whose spouses had cheated on them and say, “I would never stay if this happened to me.”

“But it’s very different when you’re in it,” she said.

“I was angry at God for a really long time,” Laura went on to say. “I had dedicated my whole life to other people, to the church, to my family, to my husband, to everything. I felt lost. I had no voice. I didn’t know what I felt.”

When asked why she stayed married, Laura said, “Because I loved him.” She went on to express that Lentz had “so much more brokenness than I had known.”

As for the sexual abuse allegations against him, Lentz still vehemently denies his accusers’ claims. “With all that is within me, I say that that account is wrong; it’s not true,” he said. 

On June 14, Lentz appeared alongside Laura on the “Breakfast Club” radio program. Lentz seemed to blush when host DJ Envy introduced him as “Pastor Carl Lentz.”

“He’s not a pastor anymore,” Laura said as the couple chuckled. 

Describing his moral downfall, Lentz later said, “I did have opportunities to get help, and it’s 100% on me. There were people there who would have helped, who would have listened, and I just made the wrong choice.”

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Lentz explained that his failures were made worse by the fact that pastors are called to a higher standard of living.