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Sex, drugs and fraud scandal: the God-loving TV star couple who hid sick secrets

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theme park - it’s not what you might expect of a pair of Christian preachers.But Jim and Tammy Bakker were no normal God-fearing couple.

They were the biggest televangelists of 1980s America, who were brought down by a sex, drugs and fraud scandal.It saw Jim outed for paying off a woman who accused him of rape and then jailed for fraud.

Meanwhile Tammy confessed to a drug addiction and was treated in the Betty Ford Center clinic. Now their story is being told in a new film starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield.Chastain plays Tammy, famed for her heavy eye make-up and spiky lashes, who liked to collect the spectacles of dead pals because she believed the eyes truly were the window to the soul.She said: “I think you can look in someone’s eyes and tell what their heart is.

So when my precious friends die I always ask if I could please have their glasses.”Born in Minnesota in 1942, to Pentecostal preachers, Tammy had a religious upbringing.

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