In a moment of shocking and brutal honesty, “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” icon Mary Cosby has pulled back the curtain on her family’s darkest chapter, revealing her true feelings about her son’s recent arrest. But while she found a silver lining in her family’s pain, she had nothing but ice-cold contempt for her co-star, Britani Bateman.
Mary’s son, Robert Cosby Jr., has been on a public and painful journey with addiction. That journey hit a dramatic low point in September when he was arrested following a domestic violence call. But in a stunning re-framing of the narrative, Mary told PEOPLE that the arrest was the best thing that could have happened.
“It was for his good,” she stated with surprising clarity. “I think he needed that… I feel like he needed that and that he understands that that’s the wrong journey.
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She revealed the arrest was the result of him trying to “sneak out” to be with his wife, Alexiana, after her parents had separated them. The arrest, she said, became a “
blessing in disguise” because it forced them apart and forced him to confront his issues. It’s a raw and unflinching look at a mother’s tough love in the face of a crisis.
While Mary found grace for her son, she had absolutely none for her co-star, Britani Bateman. When asked to praise the women of the cast, Mary delivered a swift and brutal execution.
“I am proud of all the women. I’m proud of all of us — except Britani [Bateman]. I’m not proud of her,” she declared. “I have no reason to be proud of Britani. Some people are just not your taste.
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She then doubled down on the attack, agreeing with Andy Cohen’s assessment that Britani is “thirsty.” She revealed a damning off-camera moment where Britani allegedly told her to “
save it for the cameras,” exposing her as a calculated player. Mary’s response was pure, unfiltered Mary: “And I said, ‘I don’t save anything for the camera. I just beam.’”
THE CONCLUSION
Mary Cosby is in a new era of brutal honesty. She is no longer hiding her family’s struggles, and she is no longer tolerating what she sees as inauthentic behavior from her castmates. Her public condemnation of Britani is a clear warning shot to the rest of the group: the quirky, enigmatic Mary is gone, replaced by a woman who has been through the fire and has absolutely no time for games. Tread carefully.
It’s the last person anyone would expect.
General Hospital keeps throwing suspects at us in the Who Shot Drew mystery. Was it Willow? Michael? Portia? Nina? Jacinda? They all have good reasons to do it. (Most of the audience feels the same.) But there is one person who has the best reason to want Drew gone. And, so far, no one has considered them….
Key Takeaways
You’d think, what with gaslighting Willow (Katelyn MacMullen), taunting Michael (Rory Gibson), harassing Portia (Brook Kerr), and trying to steal Monica’s (Leslie Charleson) house — not to mention swiping Tracy’s (Jane Elliot) luggage (SO mature) — Drew (Cameron Mathison) would have no time to be making his daughter Scout’s (Cosette Abinante) life miserable. And if you ask Drew, it’s not Scout he’s trying to make miserable, it’s her brothers, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Rocco (Finn Carr). And her grandmother, Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn).
Drew is throwing out restraining orders, right and left, to keep them all away from his little girl. For her own good, of course.
Well, Scout isn’t appreciating his efforts. She hasn’t said much about it to Drew. Probably because the poor girl has already lost her mother, Sam (Kelly Monaco).
Drew has isolated her from most of her family. Scout doesn’t want to risk losing her father’s life, too. While he’s alive, that is. If Scout is forced to live with only Drew, it would be nice if he didn’t hate her. On the other hand…
On the other hand… if Scout didn’t have to live with Drew… if he were, say, dead… why, that would be a whole other story! If Drew were out of the way, Scout could see her brothers. And her grandma. And her aunts. And basically anyone she wanted, without fear that Drew might remember that they snubbed him in an elevator once by letting the door shut in his face, and now he has a score to settle.
Could Scout have been the one to shoot Drew? Maybe because she heard about this girl in Salem, who shot her uncle… and got away with it, scot-free.