Drug trips, 'wife-swapping' and scandalous steam baths - inside the rise and fall of America’s most famous TV preachers
Brought up in a family of preachers, Tammy was a natural performer who could both sing and play the accordion.It was their puppet show on televangelist Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network that created nationwide recognition.
Reverend Steve Pieters, a clergy person with the Metropolitan Community Churches in California, tells The Sun: “My clergy friends and I tended to laugh at them. We saw the caricatures of Jim and Tammy on comedy shows like Saturday Night Live.But Tammy was not just in it for the money.When she learned of the plight of openly gay pastor Pieters she decided to take a stand.
Two years after learning he had the killer immune deficiency syndrome, Steve was given eight months to live. Steve says: “I have had any number of people come up to me and tell me that the interview saved their lives. He denied that account and others that followed, including allegations that he’d cheated on Tammy with both men and women, including prostitutes.
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