Josh Duggar admits to Ashley Madison account

Josh Duggar in 2014, speaking in favor the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in Little Rock, Ark.

On Thursday, the Duggar family released a statement from Josh on their website. "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."

He continues: "The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, I was hiding my own personal failings."

osh, of course, had spent years as an ardent lobbyist against abortion rights and gay marriage for a politically powerful conservative group, the Family Research Council. He resigned when the sexual molestation news broke.

He and his wife Anna recently welcomed their fourth child.

Update: The apology has since been amended several times, deleting the reference to his porn addiction, as The Wrap spotted. He also changed the passive "I became unfaithful to my wife" to "I have been unfaithful to my wife."

2005: The Duggar children and their father Jim Bob Duggar, top center, gather as their mother Michelle holds Johannah, the 16th addition to the family.  SPENCER 

Josh  Duggar, seen here in New York in March 2014.

Josh Duggar speaks during the 42nd annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center Feb. 28, 2015 in Fort Washington, Md.  Kris Connor, Getty Images