The pool boy who had an affair with Jerry Falwell Jr.’s wife said, she first approached him at a Miami hotel and propositioned him for sex, as long as her husband could watch.
The beginning of the affair between the then-20-year old pool boy Giancarlo Granda and Becki Falwell is described in Granda’s upcoming book “Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty.”
The affair that lasted for 6 years, led to Jerry Falwell being forced to leave his post as president of Liberty University in 2020. He was sued by the school after Granda revealed his relationship with his wife.
Granda was working at the ritzy Fontainebleau hotel in 2012, when Becki supposedly locked eyes with him as she sat by the pool in a bikini before she began flirting with him.
Granda, who had no clue who she or her husband were at the time, claimed he was shocked when she asked him if he wanted to come back to her room with her after he got off work.
“When I didn’t say no right away, she added, ‘There’s just one thing . . . My husband wants to watch,’” Granda wrote in an excerpt of the new book, co-written by Mark Ebner. “I was conflicted. On the one hand, she was in her bikini, touching her neck, fussing with her hair, paying me compliments, sipping on her drink while she stared into my eyes. I found it all very intriguing. However, it was also weird and unlike anything I had ever done before.”
Granda, now 31, asked Becki if they could just meet up alone first, but she told him it would go against an agreement she made with her husband. Granda said he would think about it and let her know.
“Soon after, her husband came down and joined us, and she introduced him as Jerry. He wore Speedo briefs, with his belly hanging over his waistband,” Granda said in the book. “It was a little awkward, and he largely avoided eye contact, but he shook my hand and said, “Nice to meet you, Gian,” with his thick southern accent. He pronounced Gian like ‘John,’ and this became his nickname for me for as long as I knew him.”
After Granda’s co-workers encouraged him, he agreed to meet the Falwells at a Day’s Inn.
He even called his sister to tell her what was happening, just in case Becki and Jerry turned out to be serial killers. She thought the whole thing was weird.
Granda met Becki in the hotel lobby, where she appeared nervous and was drinking whiskey out of a plastic cup. The two made awkward small talk before heading upstairs, Granda claimed.
“At the time I had the impression they had never done this before, but a decade later I think that’s highly unlikely,” Granda said.
Once in the room, Granda said, “Jerry was drunk and laying down on one of the two Queen sized beds. Hey Gian,” Falwell said to me, letting out a giggle.”
Granda recalls nervously telling Jerry that if he was feeling jealous at any point to say something and he would stop, “But he told me, ‘Don’t worry about it. You guys do what you want to do.’”
Becki and Jerry had one rule as part of their arrangement: no sexual intercourse. So instead, Granda and Becki performed oral sex on each other while Jerry stared and at one point got too close for comfort.
“At some point, Jerry got up and walked to the side of the bed to get a better angle. I had a moment of near panic, thinking, What is he doing? and I told him to back off—not in a hostile way, just establishing some boundaries. He apologized and quickly walked back toward the entrance and stood right outside the bathroom.”
After the sexual encounter, Granda was sure that it would be a one-time thing, but he later received a phone call from Becki the following day. She asked if he would like to meet up again.
“I paused, then thought, Why not?” Granda wrote.
The two continued the relationship until 2018.
The widely publicized affair is also the subject of an upcoming Hulu Series, “God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty,” which premieres on Nov. 1.
Gettin’ their rocks off in the name of the Lord. Horn dogs, religious pervs.
Falwell was beating his Bishop while watching huh?
Preach it brother!!
Falwell gives REAL Christians a bad name.
He a BIG wolf in sheeps clothing! Disgusting!
John 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
It’s believable.
Hey, nothing wrong with adults doing consensual things they enjoy. It’s called freedom and privacy, and it’s a big part of why people from Europe came to America in the first place.
What’s f-ed up is religious freaks telling people what it’s ok to do in an enormous act of hypocrisy.
Jerry and his ilk are a huge part of what’s wrong in America.