The pool boy at the center of Jerry Falwell’s sex scandal said the prominent evangelical leader told him to “go for it” before his first tryst with Falwell’s wife, Becki Falwell.
Giancarlo Granda recalled new details of the first encounter in his years-long affair with Becki after meeting her in 2012 at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami, where he was working as a 20-year-old pool boy.
“Jerry was laying on the bed, he was drunk, he was giggling. And again, I’m kind of weirded out at this moment,” Granda said Friday on “Good Morning America.”
“I said, ‘Hey, if at any point you get jealous or you want me to back off just let me know and I’ll walk out of here.’ He said, ‘No, no no, just go to for it.’
“I don’t want to go too much into the details but he enjoyed watching.”
Granda, now 29, said the couple had told them they were at a swingers club in the night before, called Miami Velvet, but “it wasn’t their thing.”
“They said it was kind of gross because there were too many people and they wanted a more intimate session,” he recalled.
Soon after the Miami encounter, Granda’s sexual relations with Becki — and Falwell as an alleged spectator — continued in the Florida Keys and at the Gansevoort Hotel in Manhattan, Granda claimed.
It was around that time when Falwell approached him about a business idea after he divulged having a video game addiction, Granda said.
“I believe now in hindsight they spotted these weaknesses and made me an ideal target,” he said.
Granda has claimed he had a sexual relationship with Becki for years — and that Falwell, the former president of the conservative Christian school Liberty University, enjoying watching their romps.
The mom-of-three admitted their affair but denied her husband was ever involved.
Falwell, the son of late televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr., also acknowledged Becki’s “mistake” and accused Granda of extortion.
But Granda said Falwell is just trying to save face.
“Jerry’s lying,” he said on “GMA.”
“That was his game plan from the beginning, to just throw her under the bus, which I think speaks a lot about who he is, his character. He was aware from day one of our relationship. He did in fact watch.”
Granda said now all he wants is to sever business ties with the Falwells and sell his stake in the gay-friendly hostel in Miami Falwell bought in 2013.
“I just want to cut ties,” Granda said.