The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin (2021)
Explore how the late Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded the controversial Remnant Fellowship Church and created the Christian weight loss program The Weigh Down Workshop, rose to fame as a diet guru and church leader.
- First aired
- 2021-09-30
- Genres
- Documentary
- Seasons
- 1 (5 episodes)
- Status
- Ended
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 from 19 votes
Cast
- Gwen Shamblin Lara as Self (archive footage)
- Joe Lara as Self (archive footage)
- Natasha Pavlovich as Self - Former Girlfriend of Joe Lara
- Megan Cox as Self - Member 1996-2006
- Helen Byrd as Self - Member 2008-2017
- Rafael Martinez as Self - Cult Interventionist
- Gina Wilson as Self - Member 1996-2012
- Rachel Phillips as Self - Member 2002-2009
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