CAMI (VOICEOVER): I would sleep with strangers.

I would sleep with people I would just meet.

When I was in the clubs, if that person was giving me attention,

then I would sleep with them.

And I started believing that sex was love.

And it became so addictive that I just

couldn't have enough of it.

NARRATOR: Cami James says sex gave her

the attention she craved.

Growing up, she was a daddy's girl

who felt loved and accepted by her father.

But when Cami was 15, he died of a heart attack.

To fill the void, she started partying and having sex.

CAMI (VOICEOVER): I just was getting all the attention

I had been looking for.

I was so eager to please whomever,

however it was necessary.

I was angry with God.

I believed and I felt like He was the one that took my dad.

NARRATOR: At 19, Cami married a man

she had dated for six months.

She says her husband became physically abusive.

CAMI: I mean he would beat me really bad.

But I tried to hide it.

I didn't want anybody to know this was going on

because I wanted that perfect family that I once

had growing up.

NARRATOR: As she thought about the path she had taken in life,

she began to want something more.

CAMI (VOICEOVER): My self-esteem was so low.

I felt ashamed because I was, at the time,

slowly trying to get back to God.

I started going to church again.

I wanted to be better because I was so sick on the inside.

I felt just dirty still.

NARRATOR: Two years later, the couple divorced.

Once again, Cami sought love through clubbing

and a promiscuous lifestyle.

CAMI: I needed approval from others.

That addiction to needing to please someone

and needing that attention from a man came quickly.

NARRATOR: At 21, she began dating a man named Denny, who

had been released from prison.

As she came to depend on him for love and affection,

he spent more time out drinking and doing drugs.

CAMI: While he was out partying and getting high and drunk

and running around on me at times, I was addicted to him.

I needed that acceptance from him.

I needed him to care about me and love me.

NARRATOR: But when Denny was sentenced

to three months in prison for violating parole,

Cami was alone and had to face the woman she had become.

CAMI: I didn't even recognize myself anymore.

I thought, what happened to that good girl before my dad died?

What happened to that girl?

I was so ashamed.

I thought I can never be any different than this.

I'm going to die this way.

I really didn't want to live anymore.

NARRATOR: One night in her apartment,

she cried out to God.

CAMI: I was almost just laying on the floor, just almost

like a temper tantrum, just hitting my hands on the floor

and just saying, God, I have really screwed up my life.

I know you're real.

But I need you to show me that you're real because I

don't know what love is.

I'm begging you to forgive me for all the people I've

slept with, for all the lies I have told,

for everything I've done wrong.

As I'm on the floor crying, just weeping, all of a sudden I

just felt a warmth to coming over me.

And I had never felt that before.

All of a sudden, I just started feeling peace.

And I felt God's love at that very moment.

And it was like a little whisper saying, I'm here for you.

I'll love you.

He really meant that He was there

and He loved me and I wasn't alone anymore.

And He was forgiving me of all I had done.

NARRATOR: From that day, Cami started

reading her Bible her parents had given her

when she was a child and set her heart on God.

She says within a few months God freed her

from her sexual addiction.

CAMI: It all stopped.

I didn't go back.

And I still haven't to this day.

Because I got so addicted to God's love that I just

started diving in my Bible.

I was like it was reading me.

NARRATOR: There was also someone else who surrendered their life

to Christ.

CAMI: While Denny was in prison, he

was going through his own change of repentance,

asking for God's forgiveness.

And he wanted a second chance.

The darkness and the noise of prison was all around.

I heard him clearly say, I need you to fast.

I need you to pray.

And I need you to love Cami.

CAMI: And when he got out, it's like God just completely

healed our relationship.

NARRATOR: Cami and Denny have been

married for more than 15 years now and have two children.

They established a ministry they call Second Chance,

showing people that through Christ there is always hope.

CAMI: I'm so grateful because I didn't deserve a second chance.

I didn't deserve to have this whole new life

that God has given me.

I found that love and acceptance only from God.

That's where I became fulfilled.

That's when I surrendered my life.

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