Heather Gay heathergay29 says it feels good to be a 'Bad Mormon.' The 'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' star opens up in her new memoir.
Getty ImagesHeather Gay, a star on Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” has cemented herself as a fan favorite in one of the most buzzy housewives franchises.
Ahead of its publication, TODAY.com caught up with Gay to hear about putting the memoir together and what comes next."Writing a memoir consumed my life," Heather Gay tells TODAY.com. Frank William Gay isn't mentioned much on the show, but plays into the memoir. Gay says that he hasn’t read the book to her knowledge, and that “no one really talks about” the book in her family.
"I have been kind of in this box my whole life, and I’ve been striving to be seen and be heard. It’s really in these last few weeks of the book coming out, reading the audiobook and looking at my story from tip to tail that I can see how much I’ve been striving for someone to not discredit my story and my experience,” she says.Gay felt the stakes were high when writing her memoir. The “fallout” from her words, she says, could be “swift and severe.
She added the extra layer because she “wanted just to really let the reader glimpse into the way I shaped my narrative in the world.” “It wasn’t really until 'Housewives' that that was ripped open and I was swept into a different life. So I needed both perspectives to put the pen to the page."In “Bad Mormon,” Gay devotes a portion to each of her fellow Season One"RHOSLC," housewives — Meredith Marks, Lisa Barlow, Mary M. Cosby, Whitney Rose and Jen Shah — offering an unvarnished and often positive commentary on what each brought to the show.
Out of the OG"RHOSLC" housewives, Gay shares that she’d be most excited to read a memoir from Cosby, saying it would be “beyond wild.”
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