Daystar Whistleblower Who Exposed Marcus Lamb’s ‘Affair’ Breaks Silence

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.