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TexasTowelie

(112,150 posts)
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 09:50 PM Dec 2017

Jessica Hahn, woman at center of televangelists fall 30 years ago, confronts her past

It’s been three decades since the world found out about the 15 minutes she spent in a Florida hotel room with televangelist Jim Bakker. But Jessica Hahn says it’s only been in the last two years that she’s finally confronted her anger about what happened, and how it’s affected the rest of her life.

She says she’s angry at Bakker, founder of the onetime PTL empire near Charlotte, for using his power and his image as a man of God to manipulate her, then a 21-year-old church secretary, into having sex.

“He just believed that everybody should serve him because he was serving God,” she said of Bakker.

She’s also angry at herself for being in the hotel room. And for reacting to this experience and the sudden media glare by making “maybe not the best choices” over the years that followed – including posing nude three times in Playboy.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article189940794.html

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Jessica Hahn, woman at center of televangelists fall 30 years ago, confronts her past (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2017 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author TexasTowelie Dec 2017 #1
Wow, that's a blast from the past. I'm getting old. SummerSnow Dec 2017 #2
Me too shenmue Dec 2017 #6
That's all well and good, but how many free food buckets did she get? Sneederbunk Dec 2017 #3
She's a Trump fan TexasBushwhacker Dec 2017 #4
She was a guest on Larry King when he was on CNN. madaboutharry Dec 2017 #5
I had great hopes for Jim Bakker bmbmd Dec 2017 #7
And HE has a new tv show (base in MO), new wife grandkids, raking in$$ bobbieinok Dec 2017 #8
Slow news day I guess emulatorloo Dec 2017 #9
Well, it is a McClatchy news article. TexasTowelie Dec 2017 #10
:-) emulatorloo Dec 2017 #11

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madaboutharry

(40,209 posts)
5. She was a guest on Larry King when he was on CNN.
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 10:14 PM
Dec 2017

She came across as rather vulgar, shallow, and generally messed up. I felt kind of sorry for her.

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