In the statement Haggard said that he met with the young man two years ago, along with his wife and a representative of New Life Church. At that time, he says he asked the man's forgiveness for "our inappropriate relationship."
The volunteer told KRDO-TV the sexual act happened during a trip to Cripple Creek in 2006. The volunteer, who is only using his first name Grant, says Haggard asked him if they were going to be "godly or bad" that night. Grant says he was 22 years old when the incident happened.
In an interview with KRDO-TV, Grant explained "godly" meant "pretty much were we going to hang out and be friends that night" and "bad" meant Grant was "going to buy him (Haggard) porn" and (watch him perform a sexual act) and "take meth with him and let him show me all of the things he likes to do when he travels."
Even though Grant said he told Haggard "no," Grant told KRDO-TV Haggard performed a sexual act in front of him.
"I couldn't move, this really was happening," Grant said. "He kind of made me have a guilt trip about it. So I wouldn't say anything about it."
Grant also gave KRDO-TV audio tapes of his conversations with Haggard after the incident happened. In the conversations, Haggard asked Grant to drop a pending lawsuit about the matter.
"It's better to forgive, let it go, forgive people who've wronged you. I've wronged you. Forgive me," Haggard said in the taped conversation.
Haggard was fired from the New Life Church in Colorado Springs in November 2006 and resigned as president of the 30-million-member National Association of Evangelicals. That, after 9Wants to Know revealed allegations from male escort, Mike Jones, that Haggard paid for sex. Haggard later admitted to 9NEWS he also bought methamphetamine, but "didn't use it."
Jones told 9NEWS on Monday he was "disappointed" the New Life Church did not reveal Grant's accusations earlier.
Grant says he met Haggard in 2005, after he was kicked out of another religious institution for his struggles with his homosexuality. He says he told Haggard that the day they met.
"It seemed at that moment, his eyes lit up and his whole attitude toward me changed," Grant said.
Grant says the feeling of acceptance he got from Haggard made him believe New Life Church would be a place where he might possibly be a pastor himself some day.
"I was like, 'This must be God. Why would this big guy, this big evangelical leader be taking such an interest in me,'" Grant told KRDO-TV.
Haggard will appear in several national interviews this week promoting a new HBO documentary in which he talks about his former church and his sexuality.
The HBO documentary, "The Trials of Ted Haggard," airs on Thursday night. Haggard will also appear on CNN's Larry King Live on Thursday night and on the Oprah Winfrey Show this Wednesday, which was taped before the new allegations surfaced.
Grant says the church paid him $180,000 to keep quiet but told KRDO-TV he's speaking out now because he doesn't want Haggard to get back into a position of power.
"I really felt the church staff did what they could to get me to move to a different city, to get me to stop going to church, to make these promises to do whatever they could to help, but their main focus was to cover it up," Grant told KRDO-TV. "They think Ted Haggard is not a harm to the community, and I really think they're wrong. They're dead wrong."
Pastor Brady Boyd, now leader of the New Life Church, talked about the allegations in his Sunday sermon. Boyd admitted the church paid Grant money but said it was for "financial assistance" and not "hush money." The agreement also had a confidentiality clause. Boyd told KRDO-TV the church will not pursue Grant for breaking that clause.
"Our hearts go out to everyone hurt by the inappropriate actions that took place under former Pastor Ted Haggard," Boyd said in a statement. "After news of Mr. Haggard's actions broke in late 2006, church leaders publicly announced that other allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior had been made. We had not at that time and still have not to this day received any reports of physical sexual contact between Mr. Haggard and any one other than a male escort who made the initial allegations against Mr. Haggard in 2006."
Boyd also suggested that Grant would not have come forward if the HBO documentary were not airing, and said he warned Haggard of the potential consequences during a meeting in December.
On Sunday, Boyd told his congregation, "I'm sorry that this wound has been reopened for many of you."
Alexandra Pelosi, director of the HBO documentary, said Monday she was sorry if that was the case.
"But this is what happens when you don't handle things properly at the time," said Pelosi, a daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "If the church had been 100 percent full disclosure at the time, maybe this wouldn't be a problem now."
She added that her film was not about Haggard's indiscretions themselves. "My film is about what happened to a man and his family after he fell from grace."
Grant says he no longer attends services at New Life Church.
"It's a lot of pain, a lot of mistrust with that church. I tried going back and sitting in services. It's just really hard," he said./>
