and don was a guy who'd been carrying his guilt like a cross for years. >> i tried to lead all of my children to the love of jesus christ. there was only one major obstacle to that ever occurring in a way that -- that i would be happy with. and that was my hypocrisy. >> what do you mean? >> huh? >> your hypocrisy? >> my hypocrisy -- chasing women -- >> uh-huh. >> blowing my marriage. >> reporter: as don tells it, women found his role as an ascendant artist quite appealing. never mind he was a married father of four. >> and that kind of thing destroyed this - literally, destroyed my family. >> reporter: by the time rachel was in middle school, don's string of affairs led to a home-shattering divorce. >> i think that the -- the obliteration of the nuclear family had a profound effect on rachel. >> reporter: now, he feared, the apple hadn't fallen far from the tree. his daughter rachel was in the middle of an affair herself and it was putting her marriage at risk.