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| Ted Haggard |
The gay ex-escort who went public with his sexual relationship with fallen evangelist Ted Haggard has secured a deal to write an explicit memoir about the affair. "It's going to review my encounters with Ted and other people who are similar," Mike Jones told The Miami Herald Thursday.
“It's not a book about bashing Ted at all. It's humanizing him as a person with feelings and emotions and desires,” Jones told the Herald. “I'm going to be explicit as far as what happened in our encounters, but not to rip him apart or be mean to him. He's a man who has faults like all of us.”
According to the Herald, Jones, 49, won't say how much the book deal is worth.
In November, Mike Jones claimed to have had a sexual business arrangement with Haggard and that the founder of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs purchased methamphetamine.
Haggard, 50, paid $200 cash per session, "plus tips," said Jones, who said he also helped Haggard buy methamphetamine.
Haggard stepped down as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and was dismissed as New Life Church's pastor after the allegations became public. Haggard also entered a private treatment facility for "sexual improprieties" late last month.
The Denver Post reports that the book is scheduled to be published by Seven Stories Press in June.
Jone’s book, which is still untitled, will be written with Sam Gallegos, a Denver-based freelance writer, reports the Post.
“It was Mike's courage and strength of conscience that ultimately led him to come forward about the hypocrisy of Haggard's life,” publisher Dan Simon said in a news release. “We're proud to be publishing this important story from an articulate and brave man.”
