Lisa Robertson Faces Faith & Forgiveness Premiere May 16 at 8 p.m.
lisa robertson is at the center of Faith & Forgiveness, the Lifetime film that revisits the affair inside her marriage to Al Robertson and the faith they say helped restore it. The movie premieres May 16 at 8 p.m., putting a private crisis into a nationally scheduled entertainment slot.
Al Robertson's Marriage Story
Al Robertson said, “When unfaithfulness happens in a marriage, so many times, that’s the end of it, but it doesn’t have to be.” He added, “Everything can be worked through.” Those lines set the film’s selling point plainly: this is not a nostalgia piece, but a public retelling of how the couple says they stayed together after Lisa became involved in an extramarital relationship 15 years into their union.
The film also gives the chronology weight. Al and Lisa first met in a McDonald’s parking lot in West Monroe, Louisiana, when he was 17 and she was 15. They dated on and off before marrying in 1984, then had two daughters before he served as a pastor at a church where his family had been members for years. That sequence turns the movie into a compressed family history, not just a tabloid-friendly confession.
West Monroe to 1984
Lisa Robertson said, “From an early age, at age 7, I was subjected to someone molesting me.” She also said, “I believe that at age 7, I began to be dishonest with who I was and what I was.” In the film’s framing, that pain sits alongside her later contact at work from an old boyfriend and her loneliness while Al was away, giving the affair story a backstory rooted in isolation, not just betrayal.
Al Robertson said, “I think the reason I was willing to fight for my marriage was that I had made a lot of mistakes on my own,” and, “To be quite honest with you, I made a huge mistake in not pulling Lisa in as a partner in what we were doing, in my career and my dreams.” Lisa said, “I think the evil one played a huge part in that because he would constantly remind me.” The result is a rare public account where both spouses assign blame, pain, and repair to the same long arc.
Faith & Forgiveness on May 16
15 years into the marriage is the pressure point the film keeps returning to, because that is when Lisa says the relationship turned and Al says suspicion began during the summer of 1999. She repeatedly denied his accusations then, and the movie now places that conflict inside a faith-based reconciliation story instead of leaving it as a closed family matter. For viewers, the practical takeaway is simple: the premiere is the first chance to hear the couple present that history in one place, in their own words, on May 16 at 8 p.m.
