Just 24 hours after reports surfaced that disgraced reality star, Josh Duggar, had been paying nearly $1,000 to cheating website, Ashley Madison, the 27-year-old has released a statement admitting to cheating on his wife and being addicted to pornography.
In a statement released on his family’s website, Duggar wrote, “I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have been unfaithful to my wife.”
“I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living and am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him,” wrote the reality star.
“I have brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions,” he continued, “The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country I was hiding my own personal failures.”
“As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all the hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example.”
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“I humbly ask for your forgiveness. Please pray for my precious wife Anna and our family during this time,” it concludes.
However, as Gawker points out, a statement that had been included in the original statement had been taken out.
The statement was originally posted including this sentence: “I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife.”
Josh Duggar parents, the stars of their reality tv show 19 Kids and Counting, also released their own statement, reading: “Please see the statement below from our son Josh regarding recent media stories about him. When we learned of this late last night our hearts were broken. As we continue to place our trust in God we ask for your prayers for Josh, Anna, our grandchildren and our entire family.”
This news comes one day after we reported that a group of hackers, known as the Impact Group, had followed through on their threat to release the names, information and credit card details of over 32 million cheaters worldwide. Just hours after the release of this information, investigation and information website, Gawker, identified two of the accounts as belonging to Duggar.
Through credit card matches and billings addresses (which linked to his two houses in both Lafayette and Maryland, respectively), the site revealed that the father-of-four had held two separate paid accounts between February of 2013 until May of 2015, ending just before the molestation scandal erupted.
Yesterday we reported:
Just as the hysteria surrounding his highly-publicised molestation scandal began to die down (partly due to the fact that one of his victims, and his sister, resorted to fleeing the country), it has suddenly begun anew after it was revealed that the embattled reality star was reportedly one of the millions of members of the affairs website aimed at cheating husbands, Ashley Madison.
After a series of threats, the anonymous hackers group, Impact Team, made good on their promise to release more than 32 million personal details belonging to users on the extramarital affairs website, Ashley Madison.
As of yesterday, millions of email addresses, credit card details and home addresses of married men using the site to seek out affairs have been released, to calamitous results.
Alongside Josh Duggar, some of the details released have – reportedly – been linked to big names, including Wall Street bankers, United Nations members, Vatican staff and the office of former British PM, Tony Blair.
The details released during the hacking have been traced by journalists to Josh Duggar through two separate accounts he allegedly kept between February of 2013 until May of 2015 – around the time he was issuing his heartfelt apology for molesting his sisters.
The accounts are separately set up, with slightly different details registered on each, but both feature information that links very neatly to Duggar.
The first account, which was registered in February of 2013, supplies credit card information which cites Duggar’s name, ‘Josh J Duggar’, as well as listing his grandmother’s house in Fayetteville, Arkansas as his billing residence – a house that was frequently featured in his now-cancelled show, 19 Kids and Counting and a house within which his wife, Anna Duggar, gave birth to his first child.
His birthday on this account is listed as being February 3, 1988 – a month earlier than his actual birthdate, March 3, 1988.
His profile (“Josh_the_man”), which does not feature a photo, reads: “Looking for you! I’m really open! You let me know what your fantasy is and we’ll do it together!”
The profile continues on to list his “preferences” for his mistress, which includes:
“Conventional Sex”, “Experimenting with Sex Toys”, “One-Night Stands”, “Open to Experimentation”, “Gentleness”, “Good With Your Hands”, Sensual Massage”, “Extended Foreplay/Teasing”, “Bubble Bath for 2”, “Likes to Give Oral Sex”, “Likes to Receive Oral Sex”, “Someone I Can Teach”, “Someone Who Can Teach Me”, “Kissing”, “Cuddling & Hugging”, “Sharing Fantasies” and “Sex Talk”.
Following his sexual preferences, Duggar listed his requirements for any compatible women:
“A Professional/Well Groomed”, “Stylish/Classy”, “Casual Jeans/T-shirt Type”, “Muscular/Fit Body”, ”Petite Figure”, “Tall Height”, “Short Height”, “Long Hair”, ”Short Hair”, “Girl Next Door”, “Naughty Girl”, “Sense of Humor”, “Imagination”, “Creative and Adventurous”, “Relaxed and Easy Going”, “Aggressive/Take Charge Nature”, “Confidence”, “Discretion/Secrecy”, “A Good Listener”, “Good Personal Hygiene”, “Average Sex Drive”, “High Sex Drive”, “Dislikes Routine”, “Has a Secret Love Nest”, “Disease Free”, “Drug Free”, and “Natural Breasts”.
After more than a year, Josh seemed to have opened up a second account linked to his home in Maryland, where he was living whilst campaigning against same-sex marriage and promoting “traditional family values”.
The second account (“ready4thisdc”), lists his birthday as “March 2, 1988”, one day off his real birthday and reads: “Do you have a spark? Let’s just see where this goes! I’m looking to have a steamy affair. I want to have a good time with someone who is passionate… and see where it leads!”
During the sign up for his second account, the 27-year-old also allegedly purchased what Ashley Madison refers to as “Affair Guarantee”, which costs $250 and ensures you secure an affair “within three months”, or you get your money back.
For both accounts, Duggar allegedly paid around $986.76USD to fuel his search for an affair.
Josh married his wife, Anna, in 2008 and together they have four children, Michael, Mackynzie, Marcus and Meredith.
