The wife of a Baptist pastor who killed himself after it was revealed he was a member on Ashley Madison, a dating service that caters to individuals looking to have an affair, has said the presence of the adultery website "destroyed" her life.



John Gibson, a teacher at Leavell College, part of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, was one of 37 million Ashley Madison subscribers to have his information released in a massive data dump by a group of hackers who announced that they had obtained the site's user data last year.



His wife, Christi, found him dead just six days after he was exposed. In his suicide note, Gibson confessed how sorry he was and mentioned struggles with mental health and other demons.



"It wasn't the hack that destroyed the lives that we had, it was the presence of things like Ashley Madison," Christi told Laurie Segal of CNN's Mostly Human series in an interview conducted a year after her husband's death. "The ability to lead a totally double life. That's what took our life down -- the secrecy. The hack is what blew it all apart."



She added, "The shock has worn off, the need to take care of all the details of losing a loved one, and [becoming] the primary breadwinner of your household, having to deal with all that."



Christi, who has two grown children, said she misses her husband most in the mornings, recalling how he would start making coffee after his run.

