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Mary Cosby shared where she stands with Angie Katsanevas after their dramatic fight on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. The star also revealed why she quit after season 2, and recalled her “darkest” time on the show.
Mary is a pastor at Faith Temple Pentecostal Church, founded by her grandmother Rosemary “Mama” Cosby in 1968. After the grandmother’s death, Mary married Rosemary’s husband Robert C. Cosby.
In an earlier episode from this season, Mary declared she was “done” with Angie, who called out Mary’s decision to reconcile with Lisa Barlow. In a later episode, Mary hinted that she and Angie were no longer like sisters.
Speaking to Us Weekly, Mary shared an update with Angie.
“The friendships that I’ve developed, mainly with Angie, [has] probably been one of the pleasures of being on the show,” she said. “Finding sisterhood in this world just in general [is important] because nowadays people … are just different now, even after COVID … People are not looking for friends, and they’re not looking to be a friend to the point where it feels like family. And you just don’t find that no more.”
She then shared her hardest time on the show.
“Season two, and between two and three, where I had to take a step back and reevaluate the situation because I didn’t realize — believe it or not, being on this show — I didn’t know what I was getting into,” she said. “I didn’t understand that it was going to be so chaotic. I have watched the franchises, like I’ve watched NeNe, I’ve watched Bethenny in the past, but I didn’t realize, being on the other side of it, that that’s what was actually going on.”
“So that was probably the worst, darkest part — was being called a cult and thinking that my church was a cult, and my little bitty church with my little bitty 300 people in it,” she went on. “And I didn’t understand that. I didn’t know why that came up out of it, but I know where it stemmed from. It stemmed from Jen Shah. So she put that out there, and then people took it and ran with it.”
But the star said she’s forgiven Jen. As for her own actions on the show, Mary says she doesn’t “live in regret.”