Gayle Haggard’s new book, Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in My Darkest Hour, gives a gut-wrenchingly honest account of how she discovered her husband Ted Haggard’s infidelity.
“My heart skipped a beat when I heard the serious tone in his voice,” she writes. “I felt the life begin to drain from my body. I sat down across from Ted at the attorney’s conference table, and as I looked at him, I saw that his expression had changed. This was not the confident man who had entered the building with me only a few moments before. This man’s face had contorted with anguish. I sat stunned in my chair as Ted looked at me with the saddest eyes I have ever seen on his face.” He responded, “It’s true—not all of it, but part of it, enough of it.”
Last week Gayle Haggard’s new book hit bookstores. While the story and aftermath of Ted Haggard’s scandal involving a male escort has been adequately covered, her perspective has not been heard . . . until now.