Heather Gay is putting her foot down with Mary Cosby.
After Mary called her out for not having a husband amid a cast dinner on the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Heather slammed Mary for her “horrible slurs” and “degrading” comment as Mary responded to her “step-granddaddy” diss and insisted she doesn’t disrespect people.
“Mary has lobbied that at me a lot. She says, ‘You look like a man, that’s why you have a man.’ And, ‘You don’t even have a husband, why are you even here? This is a Housewives show and you can’t be a wife without a man.’ And I’m like, ‘Well you *** your step-granddaddy. So I’m not quite sure how that all works out… but she feels fine lobbying those horrible slurs at me,” Heather noted during the January 30 episode of the RHOSLC: After Show.
Meanwhile, Mary, after having the comment brought up to her, said, “I don’t remember saying that.”
According to Mary, she only mentioned Heather’s lack of a husband because Heather pointed out that Jennie Nguyen‘s husband had paid for her trip and she wanted to “enlighten Heather on her words.”
“I was like, ‘Oh, so you don’t have one, so that means you don’t deserve to be here?’” she recalled, insisting her comment “had to be provoked from somewhere.”
“That’s messed up,” Jen Shah said in response. “Heather is sensitive to the fact that she’s gone through a divorce and she knows very well that she’s the only one in the group that doesn’t have a husband… It was just a mean thing to say.”
Heather went on to say that her participation with RHOSLC, despite being single, was something to applaud, not slander.
“The fact that I’m here without a husband is credit to me. The fact that I show up at all of these events alone is credit to me. The fact that I fight all of these battles without going home to someone who wants to listen to me, support me, pay my goddamn bills, that is a credit to me, and if you want to weaponize that and use it against me, you are not just degrading me. I’m in a privileged, powerful position. You are degrading every single woman and single mother out there that is doing everything they can for their kids and that I won’t stand for,” she stated.
Following the scene, Heather stopped speaking to Mary and said she doesn’t plan to do so “until she apologizes.” And, if Mary’s reaction to Heather’s “step-granddaddy” shade is any indicator, an apology won’t be coming soon.
“That doesn’t bother me. It’s my life. It’s 23 years ago. We’ve been married 24 years. At least I landed someone. We’re probably the same age and you’re still looking for a husband,” she said in a message directly to Heather. “When she can tell me what [I] did to [her], maybe I’ll listen to Heather. Other than that, put her on mute.”
Also during the RHOSLC: After Show, after saying, “I don’t treat people in a disrespectful way because I don’t want to be disrespected,” Mary suggested Heather turn her frustrations to Jen.
“Why don’t she take that same energy and put it towards Jen when Jen calls her these names. I mean, she’s calling her manatee, she’s calling her Shrek,” Mary noted.
