{"id":490372,"date":"2026-02-25T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490372\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:16:07","slug":"real-housewives-star-mary-cosbys-son-was-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490372\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Real Housewives’ Star Mary Cosby’s Son Was 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRobert Cosby Jr.<\/a>, the son of \u201cThe Real Housewives of Salt Lake City<\/a>\u201d star Mary Cosby<\/a>, has died at 23 years old. Salt Lake City police confirmed the death to Variety, saying they originally responded to an overdose call on Monday, but then it became a death investigation<\/p>\n

\n\tRobert Jr. has been a presence on the Bravo series, discussing his addiction to drugs with his mother in several episodes. During the show\u2019s fifth season, Mary and Robert Jr. had a long, honest conversation about his drug usage that resonated with viewers. (The scene is included below.) Mary asked him when he began taking drugs, and he told her he\u2019d started using at 16, taking Xanax, Molly, acid and cocaine in addition to weed. He told her that it had gotten out of control, as she listened sympathetically and told him she\u2019d help him. \u201cI wanted to die at the time,\u201d he told her. \u201cDo you know how that would kill me?\u201d Mary asked through tears. \u201cI just felt like a stain,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe scene \u2014\u00a0so raw and real \u2014 had a huge impact on Bravo viewers. In an interview with Vulture<\/a> at the end of Season 5, Mary said: \u201cWhen I watched it, I bawled my eyeballs out. I was shocked that that\u2019s what we delivered.\u201d Mary said that she\u2019d gotten a tremendous amount of support from fans, including Rihanna, who reached out to her twice after the episode aired, including to say, \u201cMerry Christmas, and I love you and Robert Jr.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRobert Jr. entered treatment soon after that Season 5 scene, but his sobriety didn\u2019t last. During the show\u2019s recently concluded sixth season, Robert Jr. admitted that he was still using, though he was trying not to. During the filming of the Season 6 reunion, Mary said that Robert Jr. was in jail for violating a restraining order against his estranged wife. (Mary had also expressed her disappointment with Robert Jr. getting secretly married during the run of the show.)<\/p>\n

\n\tMary debuted as an original cast member on \u201cThe Real Housewives of Salt Lake City\u201d in 2020. She did not shoot for the film\u2019s third season, but returned for the fourth as a \u201cfriend of\u201d the cast, before returning to the main cast for its fifth season. Mary has become one of the popular show\u2019s breakout cast members, having really clocked in during the show\u2019s fifth season. She received a standing ovation at BravoCon \u2014\u00a0the fan convention that celebrates shows on the network \u2014\u00a0during a taping of Andy Cohen\u2019s \u201cWatch What Happens Live.\u201d Mary, the pastor of Faith Temple Pentecostal Church, had initially drawn criticism from her fellow castmates, who claimed that her church is a cult. Such allegations are why she didn\u2019t show up at the show\u2019s Season 2 reunion<\/a>. Recently, though, her charisma, cutting humor and being a loving mother have somehow eclipsed those accusations, and not even an entire TLC docuseries<\/a> about her and her church could dent put a dent in her popularity.<\/p>\n

\n\tTMZ<\/a> first reported the news.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the clip of Robert Jr. and Mary on the show below.<\/p>\n

\n\tPat Saperstein contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Cosby Jr., the son of \u201cThe Real Housewives of Salt Lake City\u201d star Mary Cosby, has died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,187713,131039,224948],"class_list":["post-490372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-mary-cosby","tag-real-housewives-of-salt-lake-city","tag-robert-cosby-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}