Questions after Newsboys singer’s admissions

Lydia Houghton  |  People
Date posted:  22 Jul 2025
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Questions after Newsboys singer’s admissions

Tait in 2009. Source: Breezy Baldwin | Wikimedia Commons

Note: This article contains references to sexual assault.

Former lead singer of Christian rock band Newsboys has apologised following reports of “reckless and destructive behaviour”.

Michael Tait, in a statement on Instagram, confessed that accounts of drug and alcohol abuse and sexual activity are “sadly, largely true”. Tait wrote: “For some two decades I used and abused cocaine, consumed far too much alcohol, and, at times, touched men in an unwanted sensual way.

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