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Just ahead of BravoCon 2025, TLC has released a dramatic trailer for an upcoming documentary on Mary Cosby. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star has faced “cult leader” allegations throughout her tenure on the show, and now TLC is compiling them into one handy-dandy brief. The Cult of a Real Housewife will be a three-part series investigating the Faith Temple Pentecostal, the church Cosby co-runs with her husband and former step-grandfather, Robert Cosby Sr. According to a press release from WBTV, the docuseries will start with the church’s founding by Mary’s grandmother Rosemary “Mama” Cosby. It will then trace what happened when Mama Cosby died and Mary Cosby married her widower.
Talking heads will include ex-members speaking out for the first time, “including long-standing pillars of Faith Temple, the Enoch family, and provide deeply personal and disturbing accounts from family members such as Mary’s sister, Denise Jefferson Odinaka, and Mary’s cousin, Dan Cosby, along with his wife, Kim.” The Cult of a Real Housewife will premiere on TLC on New Year’s Day 2026.
RHOSLC viewers know a little about this already as former church member Cameron Williams appeared on the show before his death. In season two, he told Meredith Marks that the way Cosby led the church was “harmful” and to “be careful” around her. Speaking to Lisa Barlow, Williams rhetorically asked, “Is it a cult? Yes. Does she call herself ‘God’? Yes.” Barlow claimed on the show that Williams had mortgaged his house to donate $300,000 to the church, only to later leave because of “extreme religious trauma.” Williams died in 2021, and when Cosby skipped the season-two RHOSLC reunion, she cited she didn’t want to “talk about this guy who has passed.”
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