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Former members of Mary Cosby‘s Religion Temple Pentecostal Church are talking out in opposition to her in a brand new, three-part documentary from TLC.
In a few sneak peeks at The Cult of the Actual Housewife, the 53-year-old Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis star is being placed on blast, not just for the obvious pressures she places on congregants relating to their donations to the church, but in addition for her feedback concerning the loss of life of a younger mom.
“I used to be there when Mary complained concerning the 14 birthday playing cards,” mentioned Ernest Enoch, as seen in a preview shared by PEOPLE on December 15. “I used to be all the time there. I’m the organist. I gave this chick a card with $1,000 in it. Ask me if she mentioned thanks.”
As RHOSLC followers might recall, again in 2020, a leaked audio clip featured Mary berating members of the church for presenting her with simply 14 playing cards for her birthday, in addition to the amount of cash that they gifted her. However on the RHOSLC reunion, she insisted the recording was misconstrued.
“My church couldn’t probably handle me,” she said. “I’m a God-fearing lady and would by no means do this.”
As Ernest additionally mentioned he felt “lots of stress” to offer to the church, his sister, Rosalind Enoch, accused Mary and her husband, Robert Cosby Sr., of making “heave choices” for his or her church attendees.
“They have been going to have them each six months,” she mentioned. “It began to extend over time. We might’ve simply had a heave providing assembly after which in one other week or two we’re having one other assembly the place we’re being instructed there’s an emergency they usually want $100,000 they usually want it by Thursday. The worst announcement you could possibly hear if you walked into that church is, ’Inform everyone don’t go away. We have to have an emergency saints assembly.’ You knew it was going to be about cash.”
In accordance with Rosalind, Robert would “instruct ushers to face on the doorways” through the conferences.
“You’re simply being barricaded in right here,” she mentioned. “Throughout this assembly, everybody put their identify and their quantity on the listing. In the event you didn’t have a specific amount, Robert would say, ‘That’s all you have got?’ I imply, there’s nothing non secular about that, proper?”
Some congregants reportedly supplied the church cash by way of bank cards.
“There have been occasions that I’d give $5,000,” Rosalind shared. “It was so much. This cash is getting greater and greater. There have been individuals cashing out 401(ok)s, dropping houses. It received to be a monetary embarrassment for some.”
It was additionally unclear the place “all this cash” was going or the way it was going for use.
In one other clip shared by BOSSIP, Michael Enoch, the daddy of the late 24-year-old Maikel Enoch, who died in a automobile accident in 2021, slammed Mary for a second that aired in season two.
Whereas talking of the incident to Whitney Rose, 39, and her kids, Mary appeared fairly informal and carefree. And when one of many youngsters requested if the girl was nonetheless alive, she matter-of-factly uttered, “No,” earlier than declaring she was “excited” to be there.
“I used to be offended. That was an assault on me and my daughter,” Michael mentioned. “You need to be one depressing human being to go that low. ‘Oh properly, I suppose she ought to put on her seatbelt.’ I noticed it. Now, that’s a Pastor? No, sir, by no means.”
“Why are you talking on my daughter anyway? You didn’t ship condolences,” he continued. “Happily, my daughter’s gone. She didn’t have to listen to it. It’s unlucky for my daughter that she beloved Mary and Robert. She beloved the church. She saved a doll that Mary purchased her when my daughter was just a little lady. Once I went to scrub out her place, she nonetheless had that doll.”
In the meantime, Rosalind additionally regarded again on the scene.
“It was a really traumatizing second to observe. Anybody that may communicate and joke about something like that doesn’t need to pastor something,” she famous.
“These are infants. I watched [Maikel’s daughter] London dance round her casket and never one telephone name from Mary. [She] didn’t say nothing,” Ernest added.
At BravoCon final month, Mary mentioned the documentary was “unhappy and a disgrace.”
“It’s horrible, that’s what I feel,” she said. “And it’s not true.”
The Cult of the Actual Housewife premieres Thursday, January 1, at 8/7c on TLC, with the remainder of the episodes streaming the next day on HBO Max and Discovery+.
