Interview: Heather Gay, Print of the Associatn of State and Feral Directors of Correctnal Edutn - GED

Contents:

• HEATHER GAY SAYS FEELS GOOD TO BE A 'BAD MORMON'
• ‘RHOSLC’ STAR WHNEY ROSE REVEALS WHY SHE’S ‘STUNNED’ ABOUT FALLG OUT WH HEATHER GAY (EXCLIVE)
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• REAL HOEWIFE HEATHER GAY ON JEN SHAH, BLACK EY, AND WRG A MEMOIR
• ‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY: ‘I WILL NEVER SHUT THE DOOR ON JEN SHAH’
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• HEATHER GAY BREAKS DOWN ALL THE DRAMA GOG TO ‘REAL HOEWIV OF SALT LAKE CY’ SEASON 3
• RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY SHAR REGRET AMID FD WH WHNEY ROSE, PL TALKS SUPPORTG JEN SHAH AFTER GUILTY PLEA, AND NEW MEMOIR
• INTERVIEW: HEATHER GAY, PRINT OF THE ASSOCIATN OF STATE AND FERAL DIRECTORS OF CORRECTNAL EDUTN
• ‘RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY REVEALS WHY JEN SHAH’S MARY COSBY DISS MA HER FEEL ‘SICK’
• HEATHER GAY ON SURVIVG 'RHOSLC'S FIRST RNN, THE END OF SEASON 1 AND WHAT'S NEXT (EXCLIVE)
• RHOSLC: WHY FANS THK HEATHER GAY WAS A FLOP ON SEASON 2
• 'RHOSLC''S HEATHER GAY TO RELEASE 'VULNERABLE' MEMOIR, 'BAD MORMON', ABOUT LEAVG THE MORMON CHURCH

HEATHER GAY SAYS FEELS GOOD TO BE A 'BAD MORMON'

Heather Gay, a star on Bravo’s “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” has cemented herself as a fan favore one of the most buzzy hoewiv anchis.

‘RHOSLC’ STAR WHNEY ROSE REVEALS WHY SHE’S ‘STUNNED’ ABOUT FALLG OUT WH HEATHER GAY (EXCLIVE)

Throughout her three seasons on the show, which premiered 2020, Gay has spoken about her evolutn om vout Mormon to divorced mother of three and succsful bs owner, now openly distanced om the Mormon Church. Speakg to, Gay says she's ntually breakg the iologil shackl that once nfed her thkg.

We have secrets that spo keep om each other, hbands never disclosed certa oaths to their wiv, ” Gay ntu. The book offers a drastic juxtaposn between the Heather Gay that once was and the Heather Gay of today.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

Ahead of s publitn, ught up wh Gay to hear about puttg the memoir together and what says she's 'loved' sharg the book wh her 3 dghters"Wrg a memoir nsumed my life, " Heather Gay tells was no distance, she says, between her life and the memoir, pecially as she was wrg events real time as they unfold.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

”‘No one talks about ’: How Gay’s fay is alg wh the bookA large portn of the memoir is voted to Gay's marriage to ex-hband Frank William Gay. Speakg to the Salt Lake Cy Tribune 2015, Gay said she knew om "day three" of her marriage that she "didn't want to grow old" wh her ex-hband, and that she "supprsed every personal stct orr to be a good wife and a good mother, but didn’t work out. Gay says that he hasn’t read the book to her knowledge, and that “no one really talks about” the book her fay.

It’s really the last few weeks of the book g out, readg the dbook and lookg at my story om tip to tail that I n see how much I’ve been strivg for someone to not discred my story and my experience, ” she ‘never imaged’ her book would land on the radar of the Mormon ChurchGay felt the stak were high when wrg her memoir.

REAL HOEWIFE HEATHER GAY ON JEN SHAH, BLACK EY, AND WRG A MEMOIR

Now, I want to fend my own story, my own experience wh the same vulnerabily and rawns, bee I don’t want anythg to be left to chance, ” she is already fendg her words, as she’s active ligatn wh The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, monly known as the Mormon Church, over her tramark of the book Augt 2021, Gay’s pany, Heathertament, Inc., filed a tramark applitn for the term “Bad Mormon, ” ially for e of “bottle openers; beer mugs; ffee mugs; drkg bottl for sports; plastic water bottl sold empty; sports bottl sold empty; squeeze bottl sold empty; travel mugs.

"“I never imaged a ln years that my ltle book would be even on the radar of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, " Gay fed the book wh pop culture for a reasonGay took a unique approach to wrg the memoir. Gay creds her edorial assistant, John Jard, for helpg her fd her voice the wrg procs.

"Why she voted a sectn to each of the origal ‘RHOSLC’ hoewivIn “Bad Mormon, ” Gay vot a portn to each of her fellow Season One "RHOSLC, " hoewiv — Meredh Marks, Lisa Barlow, Mary M. Cosby, Whney Rose and Jen Shah — offerg an unvarnished and often posive mentary on what each brought to the many realy televisn stars e their memoirs to throw sha at their on-screen fo, Gay took a different approach. ”Out of the OG "RHOSLC" hoewiv, Gay shar that she’d be most exced to read a memoir om Cosby, sayg would be “beyond wild.

‘RHOSLC’ STAR HEATHER GAY: ‘I WILL NEVER SHUT THE DOOR ON JEN SHAH’

“(If Cosby wrote a memoir), I would vour , ” Gay memoir she’d be least exced to read? It would probably not be raw and vulnerable, which are two of my thgs that I like to read a book, ” Gay addrs other ‘Hoewiv’ hot topics and her tentn for the futureLike any good Real Hoewife, Gay knows how to keep her name the prs … and on the lips of other recently told TV Deets that she would love to see Season Three stmate Angie Harrgton holdg a snowflake for Season Four of "RHOSLC.

" Harrgton has been around sce Season One of the show’ but never has snagged an official "hoewife" signatn, which Gay tells is bee “she’s very nice, and she’s very acmodatg.

Gay ed a stir after she unfollowed Teddi Mellenmp (formerly of “The Real Hoewiv of Beverly Hills”) and Tamra Judge (“The Real Hoewiv of Orange County”), who host the podst “Two T’s a Pod wh Teddi Mellenmp and Tamra Judge.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

” Durg a December 2022 episo, the pair noted that Gay “officially unfollowed” them, which Mellenmp emed “a shame. ” Judge said that they had a good time wh Gay when they met at says there's no story here.

HEATHER GAY BREAKS DOWN ALL THE DRAMA GOG TO ‘REAL HOEWIV OF SALT LAKE CY’ SEASON 3

I have no beef, ” she that squashed and three seasons of ”‘RHOSLC” unr her belt, the qutn aris: What’s to e Gay’s next chapter? Gay says, “I would love to be a torrid sex romp lled ‘Bad Missnary Posn, ’ but I know I have more books me and more thgs I want to wre. When The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy premiered 2020, Heather Gay was an immediate fan favore for her self-pretg w and everywoman relatabily.

RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY SHAR REGRET AMID FD WH WHNEY ROSE, PL TALKS SUPPORTG JEN SHAH AFTER GUILTY PLEA, AND NEW MEMOIR

(I even had pneer anctors datg back to 1856, jt like the on Gay proudly referenced her Season 1 tagle. )And jt like Gay, I also grappled wh a paful, yearslong procs of breakg wh anctral tradn and leavg the church.

Realy TV memoirs are a ttage dtry wh varyg gre of lerary mer, but Gay’s book has major stak: In tracg her journey om aspirg hoewife to pal-H Hoewife, she wr about Mormonism’s sacred ruals manner that is not only grounds for exmunitn the church but also risks ostracizatn om the entire muny she held ar for so long. ”Below, Gay opens up redisverg herself outsi of the church, how Mormonism still rms her life, and where she stands wh her surprised you most while you were lookg back at your life through this book? ” You did that tryg to live up the standards of righteons and perfectn that make a “good” Mormon, and that’s what I did for so long, too, beg gay and closeted at don’t work.

“The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” often addrs Latter-day Sat issu, even though there are no fully active members of the fah the are three former members (Heather Gay, Whney Rose and Jen Shah), and one (Lisa Barlow) who profs belief the church whout adherg to all of s standards. )But amid all the yellg, screamg, fightg and fdg, Shah’s arrt on feral d charg, and Mary Cosby and Jennie Nguyen’s racism, “RHOSLC” clus a storyle viewers have never seen play out on a TV seri — the journey of one woman as she stggl to leave The Church of J Christ of Latter-day the show premiered November 2020, Gay scribed herself as a “good Mormon gone bad.

INTERVIEW: HEATHER GAY, PRINT OF THE ASSOCIATN OF STATE AND FERAL DIRECTORS OF CORRECTNAL EDUTN

”The end of a marriageGay told viewers that she grew up a strong Latter-day Sat fay, went on a church missn, and attend church-owned Brigham Young Universy. ”(Bravo) Heather Gay, left, and Jen Shah try to repair their iendship the Sept.

"Acrdg to Gay, whose divorce was falized 2014, members of her ward, or ngregatn, began treatg her and her three dghters differently after the divorce. ”In Season Two, Gay’s send olst dghter, Geia, 15, said she’s “worried” about gog back to church “bee we haven’t been so long. ”“It’s never too late, ” Gay said, vowg to acpany Annabelle to church “not bee I believe and I’m gog to do aga — [but] so I n support you.

‘RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY REVEALS WHY JEN SHAH’S MARY COSBY DISS MA HER FEEL ‘SICK’

”A big cisnGay said that fay members look at her divorce as “the nsequence of [her] bad choic. Her ex-hband n remarry and “still have full church stat, ” but she feels she has been marked as Season One of “Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” Gay told her dghters about the “double life” she had been livg and ma the cisn to stop tryg to “straddle the fence” between beg or out of the church. ”(Nile Weagart | Bravo) Heather Gay and Lisa Barlow on "The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy" rnn.

HEATHER GAY ON SURVIVG 'RHOSLC'S FIRST RNN, THE END OF SEASON 1 AND WHAT'S NEXT (EXCLIVE)

Fractured fayGay said that once she cid to leave the Utah-based fah, she realized she had been actg badly toward her younger sister, Nancy, who married outsi The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats and moved to Colorado.

“She broke away om the Mormon church about 30 years ago, and was a huge acture our relatnship and her relatnship wh our fay, ” Gay said. ”Gay said she now feels “horrible guilt about the fact that I did not have a relatnship wh my sister for s” and hop for a renciliatn. ”She has regretsGay is brash and outspoken, but she has exprsed heartfelt regret about her spl om the church.

RHOSLC: WHY FANS THK HEATHER GAY WAS A FLOP ON SEASON 2

”At the end of Season Two of “RHOSLC, ” Gay anized a memorial for her father, who died April 2020, and all but one of her fay members who are still active Latter-day Sats refed to attend.

Gay said her mother and most of her siblgs were “takg a stand and refg to participate bee my mom [said] my dad was rollg over his grave, ” and bee “they thk ’d be a promise of their valu and a betrayal of their fah if they were to endorse me any way.

'RHOSLC''S HEATHER GAY TO RELEASE 'VULNERABLE' MEMOIR, 'BAD MORMON', ABOUT LEAVG THE MORMON CHURCH

”At the Season Two rnn of “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” however, Gay vents agast her former church. Fans of The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy are wnsg a pletely new dynamic between Whney Rose and Heather Gay on season 3.

Whney Rose and Heather Gay on season 3 of ‘Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy’ (Photo: Fred Hay/Bravo).