*On the November 27 episode of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” Mary Cosby had a candid conversation with her son, Robert Jr., addressing his struggle with drug addiction.
“Robert was like, the perfect child,” she said in her confessional, TooFab reports. “He was very good in school. He got straight A’s all the way up until he graduated. When he set his mind to do something, he did it. He was like our prize, very smart, very advanced. That’s the Robert I know, and that’s the Robert I’m trying to reach.”
During the episode, Mary asked her son to be honest about what was going on, telling the 21-year-old, “You’ve gotta be real. You’ve gotta talk to me.”
It was then that he revealed he had taken a Xanax after being awake all night.
“So were you just gonna sleep through the day? Just sleep your whole day away?” Mary questioned.
“No, I just took half to just chill me out, and then I took an Adderall to balance out the Xanax,” Robert Jr. explained.
“Are you unhappy?” she asked.
“Sometimes, I feel like, I don’t know, just life is like this chicken without seasoning,” he said. “But when I get high, it’s like seasoning.”
Robert Jr. detailed his journey experimenting with various substances, which started at age 16.
“Then I was like, ‘I like this,'” he continued. “I started buying it. Then I started doing Xanax with acid, and then Molly with Xanax, because I really like Xanax, so I mixed it with everything, Xanax and cocaine.”
Robert Jr. even dabbled with Oxyconton, telling his mom that it got to the point where he was taking “10 at once” but “couldn’t even feel it. I couldn’t feel it at all.”
“I can help you,” Mary pleaded.
“I can try to help you, but you have to help yourself, because I’m not gonna support it. I’m not. You know I’m not. Do you accept it’s a problem, that you’re having a problem?” she added.
“I just feel very disappointed with myself,” Cosby told the cameras. “I feel like I let him down somewhere. I’m very aware, and I do know that Robert did smoke weed. I do know he would eat edibles, but yet I just trusted him in my mind, thinking that’s where he would stop. And I was clearly wrong. I mean, clearly wrong. I missed the mark.”
She told her son, “You’re blessed. You wake up every morning, every day is a new day, a blessed day to waste, to get high.”
“You will die,” she added.
That’s when Robert Jr. said: “I wanted to die at the time.”
“You know how that would kill me?” Mary responded, to which he said, “You’re the only reason I didn’t kill myself.”
“You have to know I love you more than anything,” Mary told her son through tears. “More than anything in this world. I think I love you more than dad, like, don’t ever tell dad I said that, but you’re my friend, you’re my son, you’re my gift. God gave you to me. You’re the only thing that ever made me happy. Before I had you, I was never happy. You came and you were so real. It was everything I hoped for in a person.”
Watch the moment via the X/Twiter clip below.
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