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 along with her son Robert Jr. to confront his drug dependancy. In a uncommon second for the Housewives franchise, cameras rolled as Mary’s 21-year-old son confessed to abusing a wide range of substances after she observed regarding adjustments in his conduct.

“Robert was like, the right little one,” she mentioned in her confessional. “He was excellent in class. He acquired straight A’s all the best way up till he graduated. When he set his thoughts to do one thing, he did it. He was like our prize, very good, very superior. That is the Robert I do know, and that is the Robert I am making an attempt to succeed in.”

As she entered Robert Jr.’s room, Mary advised him he needed to be trustworthy along with her about what was happening, saying, “You’ve gotta be actual. You’ve gotta discuss to me.”

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

“So have been you simply gonna sleep by way of the day? Simply sleep your complete day away?” Mary questioned. 

“No, I simply took half to only 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 hen with out seasoning,” he defined. “However after I get excessive, it is like seasoning.”

He went on to disclose that he first took Xanax — a prescription remedy for anxiousness — when he was 16 and a good friend 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 all the things, Xanax and cocaine.”

“, the common 30-milligram Oxys?” he requested his mother, referring to the opioid painkiller Oxycontin. “I observed, like, this can be a turning level for me. I used to be taking 10 without delay, 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 may also help you,” she pleaded. “I can strive that will help you, however it’s a must to assist your self, as a result of I am not gonna help it. I am not. I am not. Do you settle for it is an issue, that you simply’re having an issue?”

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

“I simply really feel very dissatisfied with myself,” Mary advised 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 incorrect. I imply, clearly incorrect. I missed the mark.”

She went on to inform her son, “You are blessed. You get up each morning, on daily basis 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 needed to die on the time.”

“You know the way that will 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 must know I like you greater than something,” Mary wept. “Greater than something on this world. I believe I like you greater than dad, like, do not ever inform dad I mentioned that, however you are my good friend, 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 have been so actual. It was all the things 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’ll be able to,” Mary mentioned as she reached her hand out to her son and pulled him in for a hug.

“I like you,” he whispered to her.

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

“He is doing beautiful, stunning,” she shared. “I could not be happier.”

Mary shares Robert Jr. along with her husband, Robert Cosby Sr. The couple celebrated their twenty sixth wedding 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 needed me to be the one to take her place within the church and inherit all the things,” mentioned Mary, who’s Pentecostal. “That got here with houses, cash, our church and likewise marrying her husband.”

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

Mary advised PEOPLE in September that she would “always remember” her wedding 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 is no feeling like that. Cash cannot even purchase that. And that is the reminiscence I’ve doing that after we acquired married.”

For those who or somebody you understand is combating substance abuse, please contact the SAMHSA helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.

For those who 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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The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.