Josh Duggar, the eldest son of "19 Kids and Counting" stars, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar admitted to another degrading scandal. In the family website Duggar Family, Josh admitted to the disgrace of maintaining an Ashley Madison account while he was serving as the executive director of the Family Research Council.
Before Josh, 27, made a statement, his parents expressed on their website their sadness on the recent battle that their family is facing. The couple said that their hearts were broken upon learning about the latest scandal involving their son. Josh admitted to being unfaithful to his wife and being addicted to pornography.
"I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have been unfaithful to my wife," Josh wrote. "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."
"I have brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions."
The TV personality went to say that he feels ashamed and guilty that at the time he was serving the Family Research Council in protecting the marriage and family, he was committing sin to his wife, and to the creator.
"The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country I was hiding my own personal failures," Josh says in the statement released a day after the Ashley Madison Account scandal was exposed.
In the midst of Ashley Madison hackers' attack this week, the name of Josh Duggar appeared on the list of credit card users who has maintained two accounts for the site dubbed as the premier site "for married individuals seeking partners for affairs." Josh apparently used their Fayetteville, Arkansas home as the billing address for the first account he created in 2013, Gawker reports.
The following year, Josh apparently used their Maryland address, where his wife and his children live, and while he was working in the FRC. Records show that he paid a total of $986.76 to the site from February of 2013 until May of 2015, Web Pro News reports.
Earlier in May, Josh faced the biggest tragedy of his life when when police reports came out in public. The reports alleged the 27-year-old molesting five underage girls, whom some were his real sisters beginning 2002. The news triggered investigation and pulling off their reality show from the television.
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