This former religious leader wants to get back to grifting, so threw his wife under the bus and let her take the blame for his actions.

Sounds about right.

Is she to blame for all the students you partied and slept with too?

Jerry Falwell Jr.

Becki Falwell

Jerry Falwell Jr. and Wife Becki Open Up About Pool Boy Sex Scandal: ‘I’m Partly to Blame,’ He Says

Over a year after Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki Falwell confirmed her affair with a former Miami pool attendant, the couple has opened up in detail about the scandal, which led to Falwell Jr.’s resignation from Liberty University.

In a series of exclusive interviews with Vanity Fair, the spouses — who say they’ve been able to move forward from the drama together — are shedding new light on the events leading up to the affair as well as its aftermath.

Their lives first took a drastic turn following the 2007 death of Jerry’s father, pastor and Liberty founder Jerry Falwell Sr.

Although Falwell Jr. had helped his father save Liberty from financial ruin in the past, he claimed, becoming president of the evangelical school presented a unique challenge.

“Because of my last name, people think I’m a religious person. But I’m not,” Falwell Jr., 59, told Vanity Fair in the interview, going on to call the period after his father’s death “the worst three months of my life.”

“There was so much pressure on me to become somebody I wasn’t,” recalled Falwell Jr., who is known for making controversial comments about Muslims, weapons and the LQBTQ community. “I’d wake up each day saying, ‘How am I going to do this?’ ”

Added 54-year-old Becki, who became the first lady of Liberty, “We had to put on an act.”

Becki told Vanity Fair that she had grown accustomed to her life as a stay-at-home mother of three prior to her husband’s ascent, and then she struggled with the spotlight that came with his job and feelings of loneliness as her husband worked more. Around that time, she decided to get a makeover and began noticing that boys on campus were giving “me attention that I’d never gotten before,” she said.

“I didn’t have a college life,” she told Vanity Fair, and her curiosity wound up leading to “the biggest regret I’ve ever had”: her affair with Giancarlo Granda, then a 20-year-old pool attendant in Miami Beach.

While vacationing at the Fontainebleau hotel pool in March 2012, Granda approached the couple and ended up slipping her his number, leading to flirtatious texts with Granda, the couple told Vanity Fair.

“I had someone I could talk to,” Becki said. “It’s that dopamine rush. All of a sudden this young, handsome fella starts texting you and giving you attention and you’re like, wow, this is kind of nice.”

Granda previously told Reuters that he had an affair with Becki while Falwell Jr. watched. Both Falwell Jr. and Becki have denied his involvement and accused Granda of trying to blackmail them, which he has previously denied. – Source

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