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Mary Cosby seemingly reacted to TLC’s shocking documentary about her church, as the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star told followers, “Don’t believe the lies.”
On January 1, The Cult of the Real Housewife aired all three episodes. In it, Mary’s family members and former congregants accused her of shocking misconduct. Some congregants claimed she allegedly had an affair with another church member. Others suggested that she frequently compares herself to God on the pulpit and shames anyone who goes against her.
After the documentary, Mary wrote a short post about “lies.”
“Don’t believe the lies,” she said, via @queensofbravo on Instagram. “Happy Sunday!! 🙏.” She also included the hashtags, “#godfirst #love #you #blessed.”
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In the documentary, a family member claimed that Mary’s husband/former step-grandfather, Robert C. Cosby Sr., used to help lead abusive training sessions.
“We used to have some meetings called the Brotherhood,” said Mary’s cousin Dan Cosby. “Robert and some other elders would have meetings with all the young boys in the church every Saturday. He was trying to teach us to be men. He’d go out, he’d make us do push-ups, and he’d make us run around the church and keep us up all day, literally all day. And it started becoming abusive.”
Sam Kelly, Mary’s uncle, also recalled the meetings.
“He would make us hold books up out like this,” he said, putting his arms straight out to form a T. “And then he would have us run in place.”
“[They would take] a pin and [put] it under your knees so you wouldn’t…” Dan added, choking up. “… [so] your knees wouldn’t hit this pin or it’d stick you, obviously. I remember a kid … couldn’t do a push-up or sit-up, and I remember one of the guys — one of the elders — kicked him. He kicked the kid.”
Later on, ex-congregant Michael Enoch reacted to Mary’s former comment on RHOSLC about “wear[ing] your seatbelt” in reference to his daughter’s fatal car accident.
“That was an attack on me and my daughter,” he said. “You have to be one miserable human being to go that low … Now that’s a pastor? No sir. Not at all … Why are you speaking on my daughter anyway? You didn’t send condolences.”