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Josh Duggar Admits to Cheating: "I Have Been the Biggest Hypocrite Ever"

We couldn't agree more!

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Liz Raftery

The House of Duggar continues to crumble.

Josh Duggar on Thursday admitted to cheating on his wife Anna, a day after news broke that he had two accounts on the recently hacked website Ashley Madison, which facilitates extramarital affairs.

In a statement on the Duggars' website, Duggar expressed shame for "the double life" that he's been leading.

"I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife," Duggar wrote. "I ... am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him."

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The statement was briefly taken down and was replaced with an edited version that removed Duggar's porn addiction admission. You can see the two versions below.

The admission comes weeks after it was revealed that Duggar, as a teen, had molested several underage girls, including some of his own sisters - which ultimately led to the cancellation of the family's TLC show, 19 Kids and Counting.

"I brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions that happened when I was 14-15 years old, and now I have re-broken their trust," Duggar wrote Thursday. "The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, I was hiding my own personal failings."

Duggar's parents, Michelle and Jim Bob, who defended him amid the molestation reports, posted an introduction to his statement, saying their "hearts were broken" by the news and asking for prayers "for Josh, Anna, our grandchildren and our entire family."

What do you think of Duggar's statement?