What a Creep: Gwen Shamblin Lara ("The Way Down" Cult Creep)

What a Creep

Sonia Mansfield

Entertainment News, Comedy, News, True Crime

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What a Creep: Gwen Shamblin Lara Season 13, Episode 4 The Founder of Remnant Fellowship Church “HBOMax The Way Down” Gwen Henley Shamblin Lara was the founder of a popular Christina diet program called “The Weigh Down” whose followers were instructed to use God as their guide to lose weight and overcome eating issues. This led her to start her own ministry called the Remnant Fellowship which along with her best-selling books and popular online programs and festivals made her a wealthy woman. For years, she dodged rumors that she ran a cult and took advantage of her followers. On May 29, 2021, she died in a plane crash along with her second husband for Tarzan in Manhattan actor Joe Lara, her son-in-law Brandon Hannah, and several members of her church on their way to a MAGA rally. HBO Max produced three episodes for a series called The Way Down (two more are due next year) which exposed many of the more unsavory aspects of her life. Today we talk about the mysterious leader with the incredible head of hair and what is happening with her ministry today. Trigger Warnings: Church cults, eating disorders, and child abuse. Sources: Gwen Shamblin Lara Wikipedia NBC News Nashville October 2021 Reporter Phil Williams People Magazine October 2021 The Tennessean May 2021 Death Announcement The Tennessean September 20, 2021, Interview with Documentarian Bustle.com Bustle.com 2 Esquire.com NBC News Feb. 2007 Baptist Press Christian Courier Atlanta Journal-Constitution October 2021 New Yorker 2001 The Weigh Down Diet by Gwen Shamblin (2002) Remnant Fellowship YouTube channel Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPod Facebook: Join the private group! Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep Email: WhatACreepPodcast@gmail.com We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/# Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

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1:01.0	Welcome to What a Creep.
1:03.0	The show with Marco Donio and Sonia Mansfield talking about creeps from the past to the present.
1:08.0	This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes and losers, the best of the worst.
1:14.0	From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy.
1:24.0	Welcome back to What a Creep.
1:28.0	This is Marco Donio and my cohort in creepitude as always is the amazing Sonia Mansfield.
1:33.0	Hey Sonia, hello my friend.
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1:38.0	We have a female creep today that doesn't often happen.
1:42.0	The idea was we both saw this documentary on HBO Max called The Way Down.
1:48.0	And I said we've got to talk about this shit because this was in wowsers.
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