At 2:30 a.m. on July 11, 2020, Jen Hatmaker woke up to the sound of her husband of 26 years whispering on the phone to another woman.

“I just can’t quit you,” she heard him murmur before he drifted off to sleep, smelling of booze.

It was, as she chronicles in her new memoir “ Awake ” (Avid Reader Press) out Tuesday, “the end of my life as I [knew] it.” 5

Hatmaker was a pastor’s wife, a mother of five and a bestselling Christian author and influencer who preached religious values to her millions of readers and followers. She and her now ex-husband, Brandon Hatmaker, founded the evangelical Austin New Church, in Texas, in 2008.

“To some degree, I almost disassociated,” Hatmaker, now 51, told The Post of her middle of the night discovery. “It was so outside the realm of what I woul

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