“I was pretty much gaslit by both of them for quite a while,” Laura says. Kimes denied the affair and remained a staple in the Lentz home, Laura says. Something came over me, and I was angry, and I definitely freaked out.” I ran into the room, and I shoved Carl and hit him, and then I jumped on top of her and I punched her. “I know I’m seeing something that is not right. “One night I found them in a compromising position,” Laura says. Laura says Kimes was "always" at the Lentz home, leading Kimes to neglect her own family. Laura says she suspected something was going on between Lentz and Kimes. “I didn’t know what he was gonna say, but when he did, my whole world, it crashed.” “As soon as he shut the door and I saw his face … my heart just dropped,” she says. Moments before learning of her husband’s infidelity, Laura says she knew something was wrong. There were mutual adult decisions made by two people who lied profusely, mainly to my wife.”Ĭarl Lentz, former Hillsong pastor who baptized Justin Bieber, accused of sexual abuse Laura Lentz reacts to Carl’s cheating: ‘My whole world, it crashed’ “Any notion of abuse is categorically false. “I am responsible for allowing an inappropriate relationship to develop in my house with someone that worked for us,” he says. While Lentz admits in the docuseries that he “failed absolutely miserably” as Kimes’ boss, he denies their relationship was non-consensual. Kimes accused Lentz of sexual abuse and abuse of power in an essay published by Medium in 2021. Lentz also confessed on a Zoom call with the church that he had an affair with Leona Kimes, a former pastor of Hillsong Boston and nanny to Lentz's three children. In October 2020, Hillsong's leaders learned of inappropriate text messages Lentz sent to a woman named Ranin Karim. Lentz, 44, says that after a family friend sexually abused him when he was young and discouraged him from telling anyone, he “developed a pattern of secrecy” that shaped his views of relationships and sex. “You kind of think at that stage, getting married is going to fix a lot of the issues in your heart, like your desire to have sex, your desire for other people," he says in the documentary. Lentz and Laura wed on May 5, 2003, when they were in their 20s. Carl Lentz addresses affairs: ‘I developed a pattern of secrecy’
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