The Way Back: Gina Wilson On Faith After ‘The Way Down’
A Little Bit Culty
Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
If you’re familiar with ‘The Way Down’, the HBO Docuseries that chronicles the rise and fall of conservative Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin (Lara), who died in a plane crash in May of 2021, you may remember today’s guest: Gina Wilson. As a devoted member of the Remnant Fellowship, the Brentwood Tennessee church founded by the big-haired, charismatic Shamblin, Gina spent over a decade inside the group as a part of the music ministry team and as a poster child of sorts for the church’s ‘Weigh Down’ diet method and weight loss empire. Gina joins us to talk in-depth about her experience in the church, the collateral damage to her family unit, and how she ultimately escaped Shamblin’s clutches. She also shares how her faith has only deepened now that she’s free from the Remnant Fellowship, and how she’s coming back from years of spiritual abuse. The Way Down Season 2 is now streaming on HBO Max.
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| 0:00.0 | The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts |
| 0:04.1 | and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors |
| 0:12.1 | are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, |
| 0:17.6 | business individual, anyone or anything. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to a little bit culty, a podcast about what happens when something that seems |
| 0:34.2 | like a great thing at first goes to the dark side and takes you with it. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm your host, Sarah Edminson. |
| 0:40.2 | And I'm also your host, Anthony Ames, aka Nippy. |
| 0:43.2 | Sarah and I met, fell in love in a, quote, self-help organization that turned out to be |
| 0:47.6 | a mega cult cult nexium. |
| 0:50.4 | Heard of it? |
| 0:51.4 | We got out of there together and on our way out, we helped shut it down. |
| 0:54.9 | Our journey as nexium whistleblowers was captured in detail in a docu-series called the |
| 0:58.6 | VOW on HBO and also on the front page of a newspaper. |
| 1:02.6 | New York Times, babe. |
| 1:03.6 | Right. |
| 1:04.6 | Have you heard of it? |
| 1:05.6 | Each week on a little bit culty, we talk with other former cult members and whistleblowers |
| 1:09.6 | plus experts in things like cultic abuse and coercive control. |
| 1:13.8 | She also turned the mic over to advocates and clinicians with wisdom to share on recovering |
| 1:17.8 | from everything from MLMs and toxic religion to bad romances with raging narcissists. |
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