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The son of controversial Remnant Fellowship Church leader Gwen Shamblin Lara recently opened up about his rocky relationship with his late mother and believes that her church was a "cult."
How does one process the feelings of betrayal by a religious leader — especially when that religious leader is also family? That's something Michael Shamblin is trying to figure out.
Before Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin and her Tarzan actor husband Joe Lara died in a plane crash in 2021, he threatened to shoot her son with a sniper if he halted their tv show plans, he claimed.
It's an interview I never thought I would do. Michael Shamblin — the son of Gwen Shamblin — sat down with me, decades after I dug into a religion of his mother's own making in Brentwood.
"I longed to be thin and beautiful, much like the girls who were leaving my church to attend [Gwen Shamblin's Remnant Fellowship]."