Prominent evangelist and gospel singer Juanita Bynum caught V-103 DJ Frank Ski by surprise this week when she acknowledged she'd had affairs with women.
"Are you serious?" Ski asked Bynum, who appeared Wednesday on the Frank & Wanda Show's "Inspirational Vitamin" segment.
Bynum, speaking on the power of purpose and how people can bounce back from traumatic situations, said she took full responsibility for every choice she made and didn't play "the blame game."
"I'm not embarrassed by my conversions, and that's why I'm not insecure about being around people who have issues and struggles because I've been there," said Bynum, according to a recording of the show posted on V-103's website.
"I've done it all," Bynum continued. "I did the drugs. I've been with men. I've been with women. All of it."
After host Ski asked the evangelist whether she was serious, Bynum said, "Every bit of it." She said she suffered years of mental and physical self-abuse because she was trying to fill a void that only a life of purpose can fill.
"You can have sex with 50,000 people. You can do drugs until the cows come home. But the void that you're trying to fill is a void that's been put there by the Creator, and it's called purpose and destiny."
Bynum has a publishing company and a skin care line among her businesses, and she's a New York Times bestselling author with her book "The Threshing Floor."
In 2007, Bynum went through a highly stormy and publicized breakup with her then-husband, Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III. According to police reports, Weeks attacked Bynum in the parking lot of a metro Atlanta hotel after the couple, then separated, met to discuss their problems.
Weeks was convicted of aggravated assault.
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