RHOSLC’s Mary Cosby Sobs as Son Robert Jr. Reveals Drug Dependancy

Mary Cosby is letting viewers watch her navigate a problem she by no means thought she’d face.

On the Nov. 27 episode of The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis, Mary sat down together with her son Robert Jr. to confront his drug habit. In a uncommon second for the Housewives franchise, cameras rolled as Mary’s 21-year-old son confessed to abusing quite a lot of substances after she seen regarding adjustments in his habits.

“Robert was like, the right youngster,” she mentioned in her confessional. “He was superb at school. He received straight A’s all the way in which up till he graduated. When he set his thoughts to do one thing, he did it. He was like our prize, very sensible, very superior. That is the Robert I do know, and that is the Robert I am attempting to succeed in.”

As she entered Robert Jr.’s room, Mary informed him he needed to be sincere together with her about what was occurring, saying, “You’ve gotta be actual. You’ve gotta speak to me.”

It was then that he revealed he had taken a Xanax after being awake all evening.

“So had been you simply gonna sleep via the day? Simply sleep your entire day away?” Mary questioned. 

“No, I simply took half to simply chill me out, after which I took an Adderall to steadiness out the Xanax,” he admitted.

Mary grew teary-eyed, asking if Robert Jr. thought he had an issue. “Are you sad?” she requested.

“Typically, I really feel like, I do not know, simply life is like this rooster with out seasoning,” he defined. “However once I get excessive, it is like seasoning.”

He went on to disclose that he first took Xanax — a prescription medicine for anxiousness — when he was 16 and a buddy gave it to him at a celebration.

“Then I used to be like, ‘I like this,’” he continued. “I began shopping for it. Then I began doing Xanax with acid, after which Molly with Xanax, as a result of I actually like Xanax, so I blended it with every part, Xanax and cocaine.”

“You understand, the common 30-milligram Oxys?” he requested his mother, referring to the opioid painkiller Oxycontin. “I seen, like, it is a turning level for me. I used to be taking 10 directly, and I could not even really feel it. I could not really feel it in any respect.”

As she started to cry, Mary assured Robert Jr. that she wouldn’t “choose” him for opening as much as her.

“I can assist you,” she pleaded. “I can strive that will help you, however you need to assist your self, as a result of I am not gonna assist it. I am not. You understand I am not. Do you settle for it is an issue, that you just’re having an issue?”

As he remained silent, Mary’s cry turned to sobs.

“I simply really feel very dissatisfied with myself,” Mary informed cameras. “I really feel like I let him down someplace. I am very conscious, and I do know that Robert did smoke weed. I do know he would eat edibles, however but I simply trusted him in my thoughts, pondering that is the place he would cease. And I used to be clearly mistaken. I imply, clearly mistaken. I missed the mark.”

She went on to inform her son, “You are blessed. You get up each morning, day by day is a brand new day, a blessed day to waste, to get excessive.”

“You’ll die,” she added.

Robert Jr. then made a heart-breaking admission: “I wished to die on the time.”

“You understand how that might kill me?” Mary responded.

“I felt like a stain — I simply felt like this world wasn’t for me,” he shared within the emotion-packed scene. “You’re the one motive I did not kill myself.”

“You need to know I really like you greater than something,” Mary wept. “Greater than something on this world. I believe I really like you greater than dad, like, do not ever inform dad I mentioned that, however you are my buddy, you are my son, you are my present. God gave you to me. You are the one factor that ever made me pleased. Earlier than I had you, I used to be by no means pleased. You got here and also you had been so actual. It was every part I hoped for in an individual.”

Wiping away his personal tears, Robert Jr. mentioned, “I simply barely began being pleased once more.”

“Please acknowledge it, personal it and alter it. As a result of you may,” Mary mentioned as she reached her hand out to her son and pulled him in for a hug.

“I really like you,” he whispered to her.

In September, Mary provided an replace on Robert Jr., saying he was doing higher.

“He is doing pretty, lovely,” she shared. “I could not be happier.”

Mary shares Robert Jr. together with her husband, Robert Cosby Sr. The couple celebrated their twenty sixth marriage ceremony anniversary on Sept. 28.

Throughout a season 1 confessional, Mary revealed that Robert Sr. was her grandmother’s second husband and that her grandmother had an “organized” Mary’s marriage. “Earlier than she handed, she made it very clear that she wished me to be the one to take her place within the church and inherit every part,” mentioned Mary, who’s Pentecostal. “That got here with properties, cash, our church and in addition marrying her husband.”

“Do not suppose it wasn’t bizarre, as a result of it was!” she added.

Mary informed PEOPLE in September that she would “always remember” her marriage ceremony day.

“I felt like I did the Lord’s will,” she share. “I felt like I used to be in his divine will. And there isn’t any feeling like that. Cash cannot even purchase that. And that is the reminiscence I’ve doing that once we received married.”

If you happen to or somebody you understand is scuffling with substance abuse, please contact the SAMHSA helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.

If you happen to or somebody you understand is contemplating suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Disaster Lifeline by dialing 988, textual content “STRENGTH” to the Disaster Textual content Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org.

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