Brazilian digital influencer and adult content creator Andressa Urach, 38, disclosed on Thursday (15) that a pastor from her former church is a paying subscriber to her restricted-access pages. The religious leader, who previously condemned her lifestyle in public, sent a private direct message admitting he pays to watch her intimate videos.
According to the creator, the clergyman stated in the message that he had been following her personal and professional path since the period when she attended worship services. When the notification first arrived on her mobile phone, Andressa Urach assumed the text would be another attempt to persuade her to return to the evangelical faith, before reading the confession about his active subscription.
“Back then, they pointed fingers at me and said what I did was wrong. What left me stunned was that one of the people who judged me the most, and still criticizes others to this day, also watches and does the exact same thing he condemns,” Andressa Urach said.
Public statements on religious double standards and hidden consumption
The private message prompted the creator to speak out against the contradiction between moral sermons delivered from the pulpit and the private consumption of explicit media online. While acknowledging the pastor was honest in admitting his subscription directly to her, Andressa Urach noted that the same man was among her harshest critics during her years in the congregation and continues to judge other people publicly, demanding consistency from those who attack her profession.
“At least he was sincere, but I am questioning those who watch in secret. When no one is looking, they want to see everything. Today, one of the pastors from that church pays to watch my content. To judge me, he had a Bible verse. To watch me, he has a subscription,” the influencer stated.
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Andressa Urach emphasized that her criticism is not a sweeping generalization against all religious followers or churchgoers, focusing instead on individuals who publicly attack her work while consuming it behind closed doors. “I am not saying everyone in the church is like this, but what I ask myself is: how many preach sermons in public and subscribe in secret?” she said.
Unverified identity of the pastor and history with the evangelical church
The account shared by Andressa Urach on October 15, 2026, centers on subscription-based adult platforms and her long-standing friction with religious leadership. She did not disclose the pastor’s name or the specific denomination where he currently preaches, leaving the allegation based solely on her testimony without independent verification of the private messages. The disclosure follows another subscriber episode in September 2026, when the creator publicly instructed a follower to cancel his paid membership after discovering he was paying the fee with funds from Bolsa Família, a Brazilian federal social welfare program for low-income families.
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During the roughly six years she was affiliated with the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, a major Brazilian neo-Pentecostal denomination known internationally as the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, the influencer abandoned her provocative public persona, adopted conservative attire, shared testimonies of faith, and considered becoming a pastor. That affiliation ended after she reported personal disappointments with the institution, leading to a multi-million-real court dispute and her return to producing paid content for adults.
Key dates in the dispute between Andressa Urach and the church
The conflict between Andressa Urach and the religious institution spans more than a decade of health crises, courtroom battles over donations, and public statements:
- 2015 — Andressa Urach converted and joined the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus after surviving a life-threatening generalized infection caused by hydrogel injections in her legs.
- 2020 — The influencer broke ties with the church after approximately six years as a member, citing disillusionment with the organization’s leadership.
- 2021 — She filed a lawsuit seeking to recover between R$ 2 million and R$ 2.5 million in cash, luxury vehicles, and jewelry that she claimed to have donated to the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus between November 2015 and July 2019.
- July 2023 — While answering questions from followers about her celibate years in the church, she stated that a pastor had made romantic advances toward her, which she rejected and chose not to report at the time.
- August 2025 — Judge Karen Rick Danilevicz Bertoncello, of the 13th Civil Court of Porto Alegre in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, dismissed the lawsuit and validated the donations, ruling they were made voluntarily while the author earned R$ 3.8 million in book royalties.
- October 15, 2026 — The content creator went public with the private message from a pastor of her former church confessing to being a paying subscriber to her adult videos.
