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Mary Cosby recently shed light on her current relationship with Angie Katsanevas following their intense altercation on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. She also opened up about her reasons for leaving the show after its second season and recounted her most challenging moments during her time on the series.

Mary serves as a pastor at Faith Temple Pentecostal Church, a religious institution established by her grandmother, Rosemary “Mama” Cosby, in 1968. Following her grandmother’s passing, Mary entered into marriage with Rosemary’s widower, Robert C. Cosby.

Earlier this season, Mary expressed her dismay with Angie, stemming from Angie’s criticism of Mary’s choice to mend ties with Lisa Barlow. Later, Mary subtly suggested that her bond with Angie had frayed, indicating they were no longer as close as before.

In a conversation with Us Weekly, Mary provided an update on her relationship with Angie.

“The friendships that I’ve developed, mainly with Angie, [has] probably been one of the pleasures of being on the show,” she said. “Finding sisterhood in this world just in general [is important] because nowadays people … are just different now, even after COVID … People are not looking for friends, and they’re not looking to be a friend to the point where it feels like family. And you just don’t find that no more.”

She then shared her hardest time on the show.

“Season two, and between two and three, where I had to take a step back and reevaluate the situation because I didn’t realize — believe it or not, being on this show — I didn’t know what I was getting into,” she said. “I didn’t understand that it was going to be so chaotic. I have watched the franchises, like I’ve watched NeNe, I’ve watched Bethenny in the past, but I didn’t realize, being on the other side of it, that that’s what was actually going on.”

“So that was probably the worst, darkest part — was being called a cult and thinking that my church was a cult, and my little bitty church with my little bitty 300 people in it,” she went on. “And I didn’t understand that. I didn’t know why that came up out of it, but I know where it stemmed from. It stemmed from Jen Shah. So she put that out there, and then people took it and ran with it.”

But the star said she’s forgiven Jen. As for her own actions on the show, Mary says she doesn’t “live in regret.”