Josh Duggar has confessed to cheating on his wife Anna Duggar and having a pornography addiction following reports that he had two paid subscription accounts on the extramarital dating site Ashley Madison.
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Reports that the former 19 Kids & Counting star had spent nearly $1,000 for two subscriptions which ran between February 2013 and May 2015 had surfaced on Wednesday as media outlets began sifting through the 9.7 gigabytes of user data that was released.
"I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the Internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife," Duggar wrote in a statement released on the Duggar family website on Thursday.
"I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living and am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him."
"I brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions that happened when I was 14-15 years old, and now I have re-broken their trust," the statement continued.
"The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, I was hiding my own personal failings. As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example."
Duggar's infidelity and pornography admissions come only three months after he admitted to molesting six girls -- two of whom were his own sisters Jessa Duggar and Jill Duggar -- about 12 years ago when he was 14-years-old and only one month after Anna gave birth to the couple's fourth child.
TLC temporarily pulled 19 Kids & Counting off the air following reports of the molestation and officially canceled it in July.
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