‘Duck Dynasty’ star opens up about wife’s affair and why he fought for his marriage

Al Robertson doesn’t judge a marriage ever has to extremity aft an affair.

The eldest boy of Phil and Miss Kay Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame is joining his wife, Lisa Robertson, to face their achy past successful a caller Lifetime movie premiering Saturday titled “Faith & Forgiveness.”

The movie reveals really Lisa became progressive successful an extramarital narration 15 years into their national — and really their faith yet restored their relationship.

“When unfaithfulness happens successful a marriage, truthful galore times, that’s nan extremity of it, but it doesn’t person to be,” Robertson told Fox News Digital. “Everything tin beryllium worked through.”

“I deliberation nan logic I was consenting to conflict for my matrimony was that I had made a batch of mistakes connected my own,” he admitted.

“When I first met Lisa, she was really a bully girl, who had knowledgeable immoderate difficult things successful her life up until that point, but really was looking for what she called her ‘knight successful sparkling armor,’ personification to return her manus and lead her retired of immoderate things. And I conscionable wasn’t that feline successful nan early years.”

The mates first met successful a McDonald’s parking batch in West Monroe, Louisiana, a celebrated teen hangout. Robertson was 17 and a senior, while Lisa was 15 and a sophomore.

They dated connected and disconnected earlier tying nan knot successful 1984. After welcoming 2 girls, Robertson served arsenic a pastor astatine a religion wherever his family had been members for years. Lisa recovered herself lonely and isolated while her hubby was away.

“To beryllium rather honorable pinch you, I made a immense correction successful not pulling Lisa successful arsenic a partner successful what we were doing, successful my profession and my dreams,” said Robertson.

“[She] was besides dealing pinch each this soul worldly from erstwhile she was young. I conscionable didn’t admit it. I didn’t spot it.”

Lisa told Fox News Digital that down closed doors, she struggled pinch memories of her childhood.

“From an early age, astatine property seven, I was subjected to personification molesting me,” she explained.

“I judge that astatine property seven, I began to beryllium dishonest pinch who I was and what I was. I deliberation nan evil 1 played a immense portion successful that because he would perpetually punctual me. I judge I started connected that way of dishonesty astatine that point, and that acheronian really began there. As I grew older, it sewage worse and worse.”

Years later, Lisa was contacted astatine activity by an aged boyfriend. She soon recovered herself caught up successful an affair. During nan summertime of 1999, Robertson became suspicious that Lisa whitethorn person been seeing personification down his back. She many times denied his accusations.

“I had prayed each done this matter that God would unfastened a doorway for maine to locomotion distant and that cipher would ever find retired because I didn’t want to wounded Alan,” said Lisa.

“I didn’t want to wounded our family. [But] I didn’t deliberation [our marriage] would make it. If he ever recovered out, I conscionable knew that it was over. I’m convinced that it’s going to beryllium over, particularly whenever he says, ‘I’m leaving.’ And I conscionable knew it because he had ever told maine that. If I ever crossed nan line, that would beryllium nan extremity of it.”

Robertson utilized cellphone records to portion together nan truth. The mates past agreed connected a impermanent separation.

“I deliberation for nan first fewer weeks, I was leaning toward reasoning that it was astir apt over,” he said.

“I was conscionable not judge if I could ever afloat spot again. [I wasn’t] judge Lisa really wanted to beryllium successful our marriage. Do you really cognize if your spouse wants to stay? Do they want thing much than you person to offer?”

Lisa recalls a infinitesimal when, overwhelmed and wholly broken, she stepped into her backyard and cried retired to God for forgiveness.

During her prayer, she was afloat honorable pinch God astir what she had done. She describes that infinitesimal arsenic a turning constituent successful her faith. She was fresh to genuinely repent and statesman a caller life.

“The domiciled of religion played a very important portion successful my life,” she explained.

“Once I turned my life complete to nan Lord, retired successful nan backyard, erstwhile I yet called retired to God, He came and met maine correct location successful nan backyard. From that time forward, I deliberation I knew I could make it because I’d ne'er called connected Him before. I’d ne'er asked for His thief and asked Him to rescue me. [But] He came, and He rescued me. I deliberation that was nan astir important point I did.”

Lisa was not only baptized, but she surrounded herself pinch women who had already developed a beardown instauration successful their faith. Together they studied and uplifted each other. She, on pinch her husband, besides pursued counseling.

“I changed nan measurement I dressed,” said Lisa. “I changed nan measurement I wore makeup. I changed what I listened to. I changed nan measurement I approached men. I changed nan measurement I talked because I had a potty mouth. I changed truthful galore things.

“But nan first point was that I cried retired to God. The 2nd point was to situation myself [with those women]. But past besides nan 3rd point was counseling — uncovering personification who could thief maine get free of those antagonistic things successful my life and yet put those to rest.”

Robertson noted that successful their early years together, he was unfaithful to Lisa. She not only forgave him but joined him. Robertson wondered: Could he besides forgive?

“What changed my mind and bosom astir Lisa was her,” he said.

“It was evident to maine from talking to friends who were pinch her that she wanted this matrimony to enactment together. She was very sorry for what had happened. She had yet travel to a reckoning successful her ain life. She was dealing pinch a batch of her past done counseling, done group who were helping her life.”

“I deliberation retired of my ain appreciation for not only what God had done for me, but besides what Lisa had done for me, it gave maine that capacity to forgive infidelity,” said Robertson.

“Her maturation arsenic a personification and arsenic a Christian successful those early weeks is what won maine complete to say, ‘If she has nan capacity to alteration who she is, for illustration I did galore years earlier, past I person nan capacity to forgive arsenic God forgives.’ That’s erstwhile it each changed. We knew we were going to find our measurement backmost together.”

In December 1999, nan mates renewed their vows. Together, they’ve been devoted to God and each other. Over nan years, they’ve traveled crossed nan country, speaking to couples struggling successful their relationships. They’re happier than ever.

“To person a really beardown and very friendly matrimony — not conscionable intersexual intimacy, I mean spiritual, beingness and affectional intimacy — location has to beryllium honesty,” said Lisa.

“Honesty is nan astir important point that you tin do to have a very successful marriage. We besides request to look astatine ourselves nan measurement Jesus looks astatine us.”