1727: Bad Mormon, A Memoir - Heather Gay

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

For Heather Gay, becoming a cast member on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” was like “drawing a line in the sand” with her identity as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When she joined the Bravo show in 2019, she realized her move to quietly quit the faith would become very loud. - The New York Times

Heather Gay visits John and Margi in studio and brings along a familiar face for fans of Mormon Stories and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Dre Robinson! Heather tells the story of how her memoir, Bad Mormon, came to be, the challenges she faced to write and publish it (and trademark it), her hopes for the future and what she and Dre are working on now.

From the publisher:

Between attending orthodox services, embarking on an eighteen-month mission, attending Brigham Young University, and marrying into a "royal" family, Heather was the definition of a "good Mormon." However, when the doting wife's husband unexpectedly filed for divorce, she was left out in the cold by her church and her community. In this funny, brash, and unbelievably vulnerable book, Bad Mormon recounts Heather's experiences as a single mother to three girls, navigating life post-divorce and post-Mormonism."

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmestores podcast. I'm your host, John
0:04.1	Delin. It is January 30th, 2023. And we are here so super excited to plug a new book that's
0:12.0	coming out this week. The book is Bad Mormon, a memoir by Real Housewives of Salt Lake,
0:19.6	the one the only Heather Gay. Heather Gay, welcome back to One of Stories.
0:24.0	I'm kind of having a full circle moment. This is where it all began.
0:27.2	No, you I learned from this book that that your your Mormon story began way before you came on
0:32.5	Mormon stories. Yeah, but the vocabulary to articulate that Mormon story really this cracked the
0:39.0	seal on the tent, I think for sure. Well, we're honored and we're so thrilled to have you back. I
0:44.2	finished the book last night. I think it's a really important book, totally fun, totally interesting,
0:50.5	totally compelling. And we're going to be talking about it today. And it's not just us Heather. There's
0:55.9	more. We have Margie as my trusted. I feel like with every frame, we should just be. Hey, Margie,
1:03.7	welcome. Hello, I'm so happy to be here. And if Margie and Heather weren't enough, we have
1:09.4	back in studio Dre. Right. I need to go. There we go. I'll get out. All right. Well, the book is
1:18.2	Bad Mormon. And of course, Heather Gay is one of the six stars of Real Housewives of Salt Lake.
1:25.0	We're dropping like flies. The cast is dropping like flies. We're down to four right now.
1:29.4	Okay. All right. I guess we would have been season four. Is that right?
1:33.0	Jen, Jen Shaw's, she's going to surrender herself on February 17th. Oh, that's that's not fun.
1:39.8	Okay. All right. We just got serious really quick. Well, prison tends to do that.
1:45.0	Yeah. So yes, but how many seasons now? Three seasons? We just finished our third season.
1:51.0	And we're gearing up for season four to film, you know, in the next few weeks. Yeah. But season
1:57.0	three hasn't fully aired. Is that correct? Season three has fully aired. It's done. Yeah.
2:01.3	The final reunion episode aired. And yeah, we're done. And for those who have what's that?
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