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On this season of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Mary Cosby decided to return after the tragic death of her son, Robert Cosby Jr.
During a dinner scene, Mary, 54, got into it with her former bestie Angie Katsanevas as she opined that Angie had become self-absorbed. During the argument, Mary asked, “What happened to your husband? What happened to your child?”
Rather than digest what Mary was saying, Angie, 52, quickly fired back with a comment about Mary’s husband and child, asking, “What happened to your husband? What happened to your child? What are you talking about?”
This clearly shook Mary and the rest of the cast, given that Mary’s son had recently passed away.
Mary recently spoke to Anderson Cooper on his All There Is podcast about the incident.
“I went back because I didn’t want to sit in it,” she shared about why she decided to return to RHOSLC after such a devastating situation. “I didn’t want to be in silence. I just didn’t want to just do nothing. I wanted to stay busy. I wanted to be occupied. I wanted to be distracted, so I went after it, you know, and I just thought, okay, well, just film and make sure none of the women come after you, and, and they did.”
She then turned her attention to Angie, sharing, “So Angie – that was my bestie, right? Supposedly. And she kept doing things like we’re filming and we kind of get into it. And I said, ‘Angie… stop being so angry at Bronwyn… and worry about yourself, worry about the people that matter to you, worry about your husband, worry about your daughter, because you still have them.’ Like worry about the importance of life. I mean, I’m speaking from someone who just lost their kid. And I said, ‘And your friends,’ and I put it towards me. And she goes, ‘Oh yeah, Mary? Well, what about your son, huh?’ And I said, ‘Huh?’”
Mary recalled how she walked away and kept her composure, with tears rolling down her face as she spoke to Anderson, 59.
“I just can’t understand… how can a human say that?” she questioned. “And that was the one thing I think Bravo was trying to spare me from, is from getting more hurt. But I don’t think anything could hurt me more than after what happened to my child.”
Mary noted she “couldn’t believe” it then and still sometimes can’t, as she questions where all the anger was pent up for her.
“And you think the people you [are] sitting next to, or you break bread with, or people that you have, and you think that they will be there in your time of need, and well, they don’t?” she added, noting situations like this make you “go backwards in trust.”
She also got candid about her son’s passing, sharing that she believes that “God would never intentionally put pain on us.”
“I just accept it… he puts his hardest and heaviest battles on the strongest soldiers,” she elaborated.
While she claimed she does believe it was her son’s time to go, she admitted to crying when she talks about it.
“But I don’t cry in silence. I don’t just weep, and I don’t want to,” she said. “Because I feel like it would be doubting my faith. It would be doubting God… Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against tears. If I feel to cry, I will. If I feel to scream, I will. But I just don’t let those emotions rise up in me because I don’t feel like it would be easy for me to get back.”