John Crist returns with first video in eight months: 'I made a lot of poor choices'

After he admitted to "destructive and sinful" behavior with women and vanished from public view last year, Christian comedian John Crist has posted his first video in eight months.

In the clip, Crist says he takes full responsibility for "decisions that hurt myself, (and) hurt other people," and that he'd like to make the transition back into public life.

"I think at the beginning of this process, I wanted to hop on the internet and justify, and rationalize and minimize and kind of explain and defend myself," he says in the video.

"And coming all the way through the healing and recovery process, I can look at you eight months later and tell you those choices were on me. Those decisions were mine, and no one else is to be blamed … I point the fingers at no one but myself."

In an article posted on the website for the Christian magazine “Charisma,” anonymous women accused Crist of trying to kiss them and sending sexually explicit messages.

Crist says he spent four months in a treatment facility, and expressed gratitude for the "undeserved" support he received from many in the Christian community.

"I had assumed that I had lived in a community of people that would be the first to look down on me, and judge me and point fingers at me, and I felt nothing but the opposite through this whole process.”

The Georgia-born, Nashville-based comedian enjoyed a quick rise to fame in 2016, when he started making viral videos that skewered parts of modern Christian life, including “Millennial Missionaries,” “Christian Alexa” and “If Bible Characters Had iPhones.”

"All of my comedy videos were pointing out hypocrisy in a lot of ways," Crist says in his new video. "... The biggest hypocrite in all of this was me. I was portraying a person on the internet that I was not behaving like privately."

Moving forward, Crist says he'd like to "be part of the solution."

"I’ve been doing that in my personal life, and I’d like to make that transition to continue to do that publicly. There’s been a million times in the last eight months that I’ve wanted to jump on the internet and make a joke, or an Instagram story, but I knew that if I didn’t take the time to fix the broken pieces of myself, then I wasn’t gonna be good for anybody. So thank you all for the love and support and care. It truly has meant the world … I can’t wait for the future, I’ll see you soon."