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Amanda Guglielmucci has vowed to stand by her husband Michael after the fraud revelations surfaced last week.
Wife says she'll stand by fraud pastor Michael Guglielmucci
The Advertiser, Rebekah Devlin, August 27, 2008
THE wife of fraud pastor Michael Guglielmucci has vowed to try to save their marriage, despite the humiliating revelations of his cancer hoax and pornography addiction. Speaking exclusively to The Advertiser, Amanda Guglielmucci, 29, defended her husband, who faked a two-year battle with cancer. She insisted he was a good man, trapped by lies which had spiralled out of control.
"I know he's not an evil man, there's not evil in his heart," she said.
Mrs Guglielmucci, who is staying in their Sydney home while Michael is with his family in Adelaide's southern suburbs, said she would try to salvage her marriage.
"I know that I love him, I know that much," she said.
"We're just not going to rush anything, we're gonna walk through the process, however slowly it needs to happen, in order for the healing and restoration to be complete and then we'll go from there."She has turned to a counsellor to help cope with her husband's massive deception, which has shocked not only his family's church, Edge Church International, but the world-wide Christian movement.
"I'm actually seeking professional counselling myself. I need to be able to unravel a lot of emotion that's bombarding me at the moment, I owe it to myself to work through that properly, and to him," she said.
"I had questions after the shock of it all, but my initial thoughts after hearing that were a sense of sorrow for the church and that a lot of people were going to be hurt because of it."
Just 15 days ago, the world-renowned pastor and songwriter sat his wife of seven years down at their Sydney home and told her the awful truth.
"I was the first one he told, he confessed everything to me," Mrs Guglielmucci said.
"He just went through it – where it had started, everything in his life as a young kid, the patterns. He was crying, sobbing actually, absolutely sobbing, he just said `I don't have cancer'.
"He was terrified, I still remember the look on his face . . . it was a very hard moment for him, as it was for me hearing it."
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