![]() ![]() Lee notes that it isn’t common to get such truthful testimony from a betrayed party. They were mutual adult decisions by two people who lied profusely, mainly to my wife.” He also admits, “I’m responsible for that power dynamic…and I failed absolutely miserably.” “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 replies. The filmmaker asks Carl point-blank about those particular allegations in the docuseries’ second episode. “We are talking about incredibly damning accusations…not things that you can just walk back.” (Lentz was not charged with a crime over the allegations.) When pitching the couple on the docuseries, “we wanted to make it clear that they would have to walk through the fire and answer for a lot of the accusations from that 10-year period that were problematic,” says Lee-like the allegation that Carl sexually abused his family’s nanny, who was also a member of the Hillsong community. ![]() They figured out their own personal dynamics, their family, what was going to happen with them and their kids.” When she approached the family members, she says, “they were trying to think about what the next part of their life would look like.” “Rather than come out and give their perspective on every accusation, they disappeared. “It had been almost two years since they were very abruptly fired,” explains the filmmaker. When The Secrets of Hillsong director Stacey Lee filmed Lentz with his family for the docuseries this year, the ex-pastor was living an under-the-radar existence in Sarasota, Florida, reporting to a run-of-the-mill advertising job in a nondescript office. His life looks much different than it did about 10 years ago, when Lentz was the charismatic figurehead of New York City’s fast-growing Hillsong outpost-lording over rock-concert-like sermons, serving as spiritual adviser to Hillsong’s most famous disciple, Justin Bieber, and sitting for interviews with the likes of Oprah Winfrey. Lentz speaks with surprising candor in the four-part investigative docuseries, premiering May 19, which advances Dan Adler and Alex French’s definitive reporting of the Hillsong scandals for Vanity Fair. The decisions that I made, the pain that was caused, the betrayals involved…I take responsibility for those.” “I’m tired of putting people I love through pain. ![]() Speaking for the first time about his public fall from grace three years ago-when he was ousted from his position as the titular church’s celebrity pastor and his extramarital affairs came to light-Lentz looks back on his rock-bottom realizations. “I’m tired of this damage,” Carl Lentz announces in the new FX docuseries The Secrets of Hillsong. ![]()
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