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. 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.

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

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.

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. ”‘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.

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

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.

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

”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. “(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.

” Durg a December 2022 episo, the pair noted that Gay “officially unfollowed” them, which Mellenmp emed “a shame.

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

” Judge said that they had a good time wh Gay when they met at says there's no story here. 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. (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.

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

”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. ”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.

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

”“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. ”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.

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.

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

”She has regretsGay is brash and outspoken, but she has exprsed heartfelt regret about her spl om the church.

”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. ”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). On a basic human level, wh what's gog on wh women, and the gay muny and the trans muny, all of is ncerng that some ernment n dictate what we do wh our liv and our bodi.

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

The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U. While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U. When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports. ”Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach the NFL and all of major Amerin men's pro sports, acrdg to Outsports.

" San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, a pneer among female ach the NFL, me out as the the league's first openly gay ach 2017, acrdg to Outsports.

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

He add that he reached out last year for advice on g out om former Las Vegas Rairs lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active openly gay player NFL history 2021.

From the first episo, she’s been open about her proudly “Mormon-ish” ways: she drks alhol, listens to rap mic, and is iends wh gay people. But when me time to settle on a tle for her new memoir, which chronicl her gradual disillnment wh the Mormon fah, startg wh her vout childhood and endg wh her current statn as a Hoewife, Gay was terrified of how provotive the phrase would be to iends and fay, many whom are still closely volved wh the church.

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

Eventually, she had to adm that was perfect: Gay’s book is raw and revealg, an eye-openg firsthand acunt of relig doctratn told wh ndor and scery.

It’s all worth for Gay, who views the book as the official acunt of her metamorphosis to the strong, succsful, pennt woman she is today. Frh off her tought season of RHOSLC—and s equally drag rnn—Gay still n’t fd reason to pla. ) Over a virtual chat, Gay opened up about her embattled stmate Jen Shah, the endurg mystery of her black eye, and why her book is more “salac” than other Mormon tell-alls like Unr the Banner of Heaven.

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

GAY: I really feel like I’m changg so much about my life, so much about our history, so much about my fay le. GAY: I’ve always kd of steamed myself to be a wrer, but I had no ia how to tell my story. GAY: Sadly, I thk that I would still have one paw on the treadl, jt gog through the motns, livg a secret, private, hypocril life behd the scen, but probably participatg the muny.

HEATHER GAY: The black eye is one of those Hoewiv anomali that did not play out well on televisn. GAY: I didn’t want to nmn someone or say they’re nocent if there was footage to ntradict that. HEATHER GAY: The rnn was tough to film whout her bee she was really the one that had the most to answer for.

GAY: I really hope that people will feel seen, and that ’s reprentatn for the margalized, privileged few that feel like livg their thentic selv nflict for those they love. If Heather Gay had one wish for "The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy" Season Three, was to be “everythg Season Two was whout the SWAT team and the feral charg.

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

”Five "RHOSLC" OGs return for Season Three: Lisa Barlow, Gay, Meredh Marks, Whney Rose and Jen Shah, and are joed by new iends Danna Bui-Negrete, Angie Harrgton and Angie Katsanevas. BravoBy the looks of the Season Three trailer, Gay will be gettg her wish … but that don’t mean she’s g off unsthed.

TODAY ught up wh Gay to hear alllll about what’s to e om SLC’s was ‘hopeful’ about her relatnship wh Barlow durg Season 3While many hoewiv look forward to hashg out drama at rnns, Gay said that she’s “always trmatized post rnns, ” and “n’t even watch them. Gay’s rnn sparrg partner is Barlow, who Gay admted she go "really, really hard on, and I always eply regret . Back Salt Lake Cy, Barlow brought a bottle of Vida Tequila (Barlow’s tequila brand) to Gay’s bs, Bety Lab & Laser — a gture that Gay appreciated.

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

Gay said she felt “really, really hopeful that Lisa and I uld get to a great place where we really enjoy each other. As Gay told TODAY, “I n tease that nothg chang (about our relatnship durg Season Three).

”Gay lled Barlow “her foil, ” and jokgly add, “she shows me that I am not an emotnally mature adult, that I have ep rooted securi, that I am easily triggered, and that I am easily threatened. ” Gay said the distance between her and Rose is ‘eply paful’“Whney and Heather, bad weather, sp the tth, stroy, ” Barlow once said about Gay and Rose … but Season Three, seems there’s a storm brewg between Rose and Gay. In fact, the Season Three trailer showed Gay phg Rose out of her way durg a heated told TODAY she thought their iendship was “unbreakable and immovable, ” and noted “I have never betrayed her, I never will betray her, I will never not see the bt her and want to celebrate her.

I loved beg a part of bad weather, but I also love her enough that if she wants to be on her own, that’s fe, ” Gay ntued. Whney Rose, Heather Gay Jse Grant / BravoWhen speakg wh TODAY, Rose said that her relatnship wh Gay “absolutely impacted” her abily to get to know Barlow, whom she now lls her clost iend on the ’s thoughts on the new btie-ship?