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Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris

Marla Maples: "You Never Know What People Are Going To Remember"

Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris

ABC News

Daily News, Politics, Entertainment News, News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Actress and TV personality Marla Maples is best known for her tumultuous marriage to Donald Trump. In this episode, Marla speaks with Paula about her relationship with the president, and how her upbringing as a Southern Baptist informed her current beliefs. --- Paula Faris is an Emmy Award-winning anchor and senior national correspondent at ABC News. Previously, she was the co-anchor of "Good Morning America" on the weekends and ABC's "The View." Support this podcast with a review --------> http://bit.ly/2DChGho "Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris" is produced by ABC Radio. More information: http://www.abcnewspodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. It's Paula Ferris and this is journeys of faith where we're diving deep with everyone from religious scholars to country music stars.

0:09.0

But on this episode, we're talking to Marla Maples. She's an actress and a TV personality but

0:15.7

she's probably best known for being the second wife of President Donald Trump.

0:20.8

Her relationship with the President started and ended with a

0:24.9

fair share of controversy. I never considered myself a mistress. I mean that's the truth.

0:28.9

But Marla says her faith was key to staying grounded. And he would go to church with me.

0:34.0

It was really the biggest part of my life.

0:36.4

Wasn't the biggest part of his, I would suppose.

0:39.4

I wanted him to see how loved he could be

0:41.7

for his soul, not for his money.

0:43.3

And before she even met President Trump,

0:45.6

her faith carried her through an abusive relationship.

0:49.0

Was justice ever served for you?

0:50.6

Her answer and more on this week's journeys of faith and a reminder to

0:55.5

subscribe. You have such an interesting faith journey yourself. You were raised Southern Baptist and now I was

1:07.3

reading you go to church on Sundays. You keep Chabat. You eat kosher. You study Cabala.ala. Anything else I'm missing. Oh all of it. I want to find

1:16.6

out people connect to God. It's important to me. It's also a passion of mine. Growing up in the

1:21.8

South is the son in Baptist Christ was you know that

1:25.7

connection for me but I always wanted to know how people that didn't have the

1:30.1

opportunity to to maybe know Christ or have the faith that we had.

1:35.6

How did they make that connection to divinity?

1:39.4

So I studied a lot of it all through my life.

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