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The marriage of Josh Duhamel and Fergie hit a rocky patch in 2009 when news of his fling with a stripper touched off a media storm. After a three year silence, the Black Eyed Peas singer is speaking out for the first time during an exclusive interview with Oprah.

The scandal erupted nine months after the couple wed, when Duhamel had a brief affair with Atlanta stripper Nicole Forrester after hooking up with her at a nude club called Tattletales Lounge.

The stripper claims he introduced himself as JD and that he was in town making a porn movie. She said she told him that he was gorgeous and she said he replied, “You’re hot, too.”

They had a drink together and then she performed a nude dance for Josh and a male friend. At the end of the night she exchange numbers with the actor and she subsequently received a phone invitation to meet him in his St. Regis hotel room.

Fergie admits, “When you go through difficult times, it really makes you stronger as a unit, as a partnership. It does for us, anyway. Our love today is a deeper love, definitely. We’re stronger today definitely because of anything difficult that’s happened with us. We deal with it, we communicate; communicating’s the most important thing.”

Josh and Fergie have been a couple for nine years and he believes their union is unbreakable. “We’ve both had to work for what we got. We’re both Catholic. There were a lot of things that were really compatible between us. But at the end of the day, she’s just an amazing girl.”

Check out a clip from Oprah and Fergie’s upcoming interview below:


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