The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis star Heather Homosexual shared uncommon perception into her dynamic with ex-husband Invoice earlier than their divorce.
“About three days into my marriage, I spotted that we had been fiercely, deeply incompatible,” Heather, 51, revealed within the first episode of her new docuseries, Surviving Mormonism, which premiered on Bravo Tuesday, November 11. “I assumed he was marrying me for all the explanations he wasn’t, and I used to be marrying him for all the explanations he didn’t need to be a husband.”
Within the new collection, Heather got down to dive deeper into the historical past of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, exploring the scandals and secrets and techniques saved behind closed doorways. She opened up about how her personal relationship with faith shifted over time.
“It wasn’t like I hit some level in my life the place Mormonism began to be a burden,” she advised the cameras. “From the second I used to be conscious of it, it supplanted my identification. I’m a cradle Mormon, I used to be born into the religion. And I liked being Mormon rising up.”
Each of Heather’s dad and mom had been from Mormon households. “All of our household rituals and household traditions and household togetherness was centered round church actions and our church beliefs,” she stated. “I had these siblings who had been my built-in finest pals and we had been all in on it collectively. And I didn’t really feel prefer it was faux.”
In line with Heather, one of the essential rules of the Mormon religion is “that the best happiness on earth could be discovered throughout the household and the household is the automobile by which to develop nearer to God and attain everlasting life.”
“That perception knowledgeable the kind of household I wished to create for myself,” the fact star continued. “The second I met somebody that was keen, I knew that I had the capability to make any marriage work as a result of I liked God, I liked being Mormon, I used to be good at being Mormon. However I used to be very, very mistaken.”
Heather and Invoice — who additionally comes from an extended line of loyal Mormons — bought married in 2000 and separated after 11 years. The previous couple’s divorce was finalized in 2014.
“Divorce wasn’t in my vocabulary,” Heather stated in Tuesday’s episode. “I didn’t know anybody that was divorced. However he did. My marriage was ending and my Mormon dream was shattered too. And my complete life imploded.”
RHOSLC followers have seen Heather navigate her life post-divorce along with her and Invoice’s three daughters for the reason that present debuted in 2020. Throughout season 6, Heather bought candid about coparenting along with her ex-husband.
“My husband by no means had custody of the youngsters,” she stated on RHOSLC in September. “He by no means had them in a single day. I had them one hundred pc of the time. And his involvement was, , enjoyable dad visits as soon as every week.”
Heather admitted that elevating her youngsters alone was a “actually exhausting” period in her life. “And largely exhausting as a result of I couldn’t present them it was exhausting,” she advised her fellow Housewives. “I acted prefer it was good and regular, and I used to be so glad, and I used to be so advantageous. And I liked the whole lot I used to be doing. However I used to be gritting my enamel the entire time. I’m exhausted, truthfully. I’m simply trying ahead to a brand new chapter.”
All three episodes of Surviving Mormonism With Heather Homosexual shall be obtainable to stream on Peacock Wednesday, November 12.
