(Relevant) In a lengthy profile at Vanity Fair, former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. has opened up about his spectacular fall from the height of evangelical superstardom. While the article doesn’t exactly resolve the he said/she said/he said of the infamous, tabloid-ready scandal that enveloped Falwell, his wife Becki and Giancarlo Granda, known as “the pool boy,” it does delve into more of the Falwells’ interior thoughts and reflections on everything than most previous reporting has. Maybe most shocking is Falwell’s admission that he does not consider himself religious.
“Because of my last name, people think I’m a religious person. But I’m not,” Falwell says in the piece. “My goal was to make them realize I was not my dad.”