Laura Lentz remembers the day husband Carl Lentz admitted to dishonest
Carl says he felt like he was “in an alternate universe” the day he was confronted by church management after a Hillsong staffer discovered texts on his laptop that prompt an affair between him and jewellery designer Ranin Karim and reported him. (Carl has by no means talked about her by identify whereas speaking about his infidelity, however Ranin instructed her story various occasions.)
On Oct. 25, 2020, “Carl’s like, ‘Hey, can I speak to you for a second,” Laura, his spouse since 2003, remembers within the sequence, her first interview since each she and Carl have been fired from Hillsong. “As quickly as he shut the door and I noticed his face, my coronary heart simply dropped and I used to be like, I might inform it was one thing large. I did not know what he was going to say, however…when he did, my complete world crashed.”
When Carl instructed her he’d been “untrue,” Laura remembers asking him what that meant and if he was in love with this different lady. And in that “unbelievable” second, she provides, “I thought of my youngsters. That was my first thought, then—it was so silly—however I thought of our church and our workers.
Carl remembers Laura uttering a sound that “was like no different cry I might ever heard.” He says that “she wasn’t mad, she was simply so damaged.”
