Duck Dynasty Bombshells: Abortion, Drugs, Infidelity

Al also writes about living "a double life" as a young man, having an affair with a woman who was still married, popping speed to stay awake on the job and drinking heavily. After a violent confrontation with his girlfriend's husband, Al wrotes, he returned home to his family and started to see the error of his ways.

Lisa and Al obviously later reconnected and had two children together—but they also reveal in their book that Lisa had a 14-month affair back in the 1990s that almost destroyed their marriage.

Al writes that he started suspecting in 1999 that Lisa was seeing someone and then he got hard evidence in the form of cell phone records.

"It was really hard," Al told Us Weekly in a recent interview, discussing their book and the aftermath of Lisa's affair. "It was one of the most difficult things our family has ever gone through...What I will say is that once I made the decision that I was in a place where I could forgive Lisa and I wanted our marriage to work, [his family] got on board behind me. It took a little while for each of them in their individual way to work through their issues with Lisa, but they did. And now we're very close and they're very close to her."

In the book, Lisa also connects her infidelity to her childhood abuse, writing, "As we have spoken with other couples whose marriages have suffered an affair, we have learned that a sinister bond exists between abuse and infidelity."

Duck Dynasty airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. on A&E. A New Season is on sale now.

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