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Mary Cosby’s sister alleged in a brand new documentary that Mary “consol[ed]” her former step-grandpa Robert C. Cosby after the passing of his spouse Rosemary “Mama” Cosby, Mary’s grandma, and so they had been doing “God is aware of what” in his home. In the meantime, a filmmaker behind the doc mentioned every little thing was “fact-checked.”
After Rosemary died in 1997, Mary married Robert. Rosemary based Religion Temple Pentecostal Church, the place Mary is now thought of the “First Girl.” The wedding reportedly led to Mary’s estrangement from her mom, and castmates on Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis have addressed claims that the church is “cult.”
In a preview of the brand new documentary, The Cult of the Actual Housewife, Mary’s sister, Denise Jefferson Odinaka, recalled the day of Rosemary’s funeral.
“The day that I went to my grandmother’s companies, I picked Mary up, and Mary was disfellowshipped,” mentioned Denise, by way of @bravosnarkside on Instagram. “I simply keep in mind me and her had a dialog about it, and I believe Gramps went on this mission to attempt to revive her, spiritually. Subsequent you already know, she’s in his home and so they’re doing God is aware of what.”
“Robert, he was devastated, he had simply misplaced the love of his life, and you then’ve acquired this younger lady who’s her granddaughter, who’s consoling him,” mentioned Kim Cosby, Dan Cosby‘s spouse. “He informed us they went to dinner each evening, and she or he’d make him speak about Mama, and [that] it helped heal him.”
Denise added, “I keep in mind my Gramps purchased Mary a BMW. [I thought it was] random, [as] there’s like 25 grandchildren. I’m proper right here, you already know, I’m ready for mine. However anyway, she was exhibiting him a brand new way of life in Christianity, you already know, the issues that we simply weren’t doing, you already know, just like the consuming and stuff.”
Across the identical time, one of many filmmakers behind the documentary shared that every little thing was “fact-checked.”
“We did observe — and it’s vital to say — journalistic ethics, so it wasn’t simply folks saying something that got here into their thoughts,” mentioned Julian Hobbs on Actuality Life with Kate Casey, by way of @thebravobabe on Instagram. “All the pieces needed to be fact-checked, legally checked, double-sourced. Folks despatched issues that didn’t make it into the movie, however I really feel assured that from these folks’s alleged perspective … that this isn’t simply wild hypothesis about what’s occurring at Religion Temple.”
The Cult of the Actual Housewife airs January 1 on TLC.
