After months of staying quiet New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Bishop Eddie Long’s wife Vanessa allegedly    left him in the middle of his boy sex scandal last year and now she explains why she came back. Sources report she Addressed the church’s women’s ministry in late August, Vanessa reflected on the period in which she nearly divorced Long in the aftermath of 2010 allegations that her husband had seduced male minors in his care.

In a video posted online Vanessa Long addresses the New Birth congreation telling them,

“I was in the middle of a storm, and I got off the ship.”

Ultimately, the New Birth elder saw this controversy as a test of faith that strengthened her resolve to serve her church community.

“I realized that the best thing I could do was to let you see me as a woman, just like you. A woman capable of making good decisions and a woman capable of making bad decisions,” Long said. “Instead of condemning myself, I can use what happened as an opportunity to minister myself to someone else going through a storm.”

After announcing her plans to divorce in December 2011, Vanessa publicly changed her mind several times. Finally, the case was dismissed in February 2012.

Mrs. Long received a standing ovation for revealing her struggles almost exactly two years after her husband’s accusers originally surfaced.

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