{"id":5279,"date":"2020-08-24T01:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2020-08-24T01:58:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:58:55","slug":"falwell-reveals-wifes-fatal-attraction-affair-with-pool-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5279","title":{"rendered":"Falwell Reveals Wife\u2019s \u2018Fatal Attraction\u2019 Affair With Pool Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell Jr. says a \u201cfatal attraction\u201d threat to expose an affair his wife had with a pool boy eight years ago triggered an emotional roller coaster before he was suspended as president of Liberty University. The Christian school on Friday said it was investigating \u201crumors and claims\u201d about Falwell, who was put on leave after a photo of him with his pants unzipped surfaced. \u201cI\u2019m just tired of it,\u201d Falwell told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/washington-secrets\/exclusive-falwell-says-fatal-attraction-threat-led-to-depression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Examiner<\/a> as he released a long statement about the infidelity by wife Becki. \u201cIt\u2019s just got to end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, Falwell Jr. says he forgave Becki for the affair. He did not name the pool boy, but numerous news outlets have written about the couple\u2019s friendship with Miami pool attendant Giancarlo Granda and a real estate venture with him. Falwell claimed that over time, the man \u201cbecame increasingly angry and aggressive\u201d and \u201cbegan threatening to publicly reveal this secret relationship with Becki and to deliberately embarrass my wife, family, and Liberty University unless we agreed to pay him substantial monies.\u201d Falwell added, \u201cWe were doing our best to respectfully unravel this \u2018fatal attraction\u2019 type situation to protect our family and the University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/jerry-falwell-jr-says-pool-boy-tried-to-extort-him-after-affair-with-wife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell Jr. says a &ldquo;fatal attraction&rdquo; threat to expose an affair his wife had with a pool boy eight years ago triggered an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5279\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falwell Reveals Wife\u2019s \u2018Fatal Attraction\u2019 Affair With Pool Boy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-5279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-falwell-reveals-wifes-fatal-attraction-affair-with-pool-boy","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1n9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5281,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions\/5281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}