Fifteen years ago, Daystar TV Founders Marcus and Joni Lamb labeled Jeanette Hawkins and two other women “extortionists” on national TV. Now, Jeanette is breaking her silence, telling about her ordeal after exposing Marcus’ seven-year, extramarital “affair.”
Jeanette tells how, in 2005, she left a job in secular media, making $250,000 a year, to work at Daystar for only $80,000 a year. At the time, she says she believed Daystar was a godly organization. But she saw many instances of hypocrisy while working there, culminating in the discovery of Marcus Lamb’s seven-year “affair” with another high-ranking employee.
Jeanette says Daystar pressured her to cover up and lie for the Lambs—a pattern evident in recent Daystar scandals. When she refused, life at work became unbearable, so she resigned. The situation became so personally devastating that Jeanette became suicidal and was involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
Some of this is told in Jeanette’s 2010 lawsuit against Daystar. But in our interview, she also describes harassment by Joni Lamb and other employees of Daystar as well as intimidation tactics, like being followed by private investigators. She also describes how Daystar blacklisted her, so she couldn’t get another job in either Christian or secular media.
“I felt like I was spiritually raped,” Jeanette says. “And that’s a strong statement to make. But it’s because there was nothing left. . . . It was, like I said, the darkest place I had ever gone through.”
Yet, as awful as her experience was, Jeanette also shares how she recently experienced profound healing at the Restore Conference. Now, she says she’s speaking out in hopes that others, who have been similarly wounded and abused by spiritual leaders, can know healing is possible.
Read the full text below of the lawsuit that Hawkins filed in 2010 against Daystar.
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Jeanette Hawkins
Jeanette Hawkins had a stellar, 15-year career in secular media before taking a job as Daystar TV marketing director in 2005. After discovering Marcus Lamb’s seven-year, extramarital “affair” in 2007, Hawkins reported it to a superior. She then resigned from Daystar in 2008, wounded and disillusioned by what she had experienced there. In 2010, she filed a lawsuit against Marcus Lamb and Daystar TV, which was settled in 2011.
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Ms. Hawkins talked about the high opinion she had of Marcus and Joni Lamb, based on how they appeared on TV. She talked about being disappointed in Dr. Phil, indicating that she had a higher opinion of him based on how he appears on TV. My point is not that Ms. Hawkins is unusual: it’s common for us to think we know TV personalities, when we actually have no idea what they are really like, because they are performers.
It was interesting that Ms. Roys mentioned how different Mr. Ray Curry is in real life from the role he performs on his show. Ms. Roys didn’t seem to think think there was anything off about this, but the Bible has a word for people who are performing a role in the religion business.
Ray comes across as very genuine on both his show and in person. I just think it’s that he gets animated when he’s preaching/podcasting. I don’t see any of it as a performance, though.
Thank you for the reply. I certainly hope that’s the case. Media figures need to take care that their public face doesn’t displace the real person.
So Joni and Marcus never encouraged their children to pray and examine themselves to see what careers they may have been interested in pursuing besides just working with the family business/so called ministry? Most parents would want their children to find their own life calling/career. It’s selfish of parents to insist that all their children work at the family business. Although I am firmly in the Jonathan/Susie camp, if they were born again all these years and were on their faces seeking God’s guidance for their lives did it never occur to them that something seemed off within this family beginning years ago?? When did Jonathan know that his father’s adultery had begun and what did Jonathan think of it? My opinion is that Marcus’ sin, which began years ago, tainted the whole family. But of course money was the driving force and the children have lived in a cult like environment their whole lives. I respect Denise Boggs, however did she not have discernment concerning Marcus and Jonis true nature when she first met them? I don’t know about you, but I have discernment about people soon after I first meet them. I have been praying for all the people involved and hope Baby Lamb gets justice soon.