Throughout Wednesday’s episode of The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis, Mary sat down together with her son Robert Jr. to confront him about his latest habits. Whereas in earlier episodes, Mary observed regarding modifications in her son’s habits, she did not precisely know what till he confessed to abusing a wide range of substances.

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

As she entered Robert Jr.’s room, Mary instructed him he needed to be sincere together with her about what was occurring, saying, “You’ve got gotta be actual. You’ve got gotta discuss to me.”

It was then that the 21-year-old admitted that he had taken a Xanax after being awake all evening.

“So have been you simply gonna sleep by 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,” Robert Jr. defined.

Shocked, Mary’s eyes full of tears as she requested her son if he thought he had an issue.

“Are you sad?” she requested.

“Typically, I really feel like, I do not know, simply life is like this rooster with out seasoning,” he defined. “However once I get excessive, it is like seasoning.”

Robert Jr. then went to element his journey with substances, which began with taking Xanax — a prescription medicine for nervousness — when he was 16, after a pal gave it to him at a celebration.

From then, he began experimenting with different medicine.

“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.”

Robert Jr. even dabbled with the highly-addictive opioid painkiller, Oxyconton, inform his mother that he felt the “turning level” for him got here after he could not really feel the consequences of the drug, regardless of taking numerous drugs.

“You realize, the common 30-milligram Oxys?” he requested his mother. “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 “decide” him for opening as much as her.

“I may help you,” she pleaded. “I can strive that can assist you, however it’s a must to assist your self, as a result of I am not gonna assist it. I am not. You realize I am not. Do you settle for it is an issue, that you just’re having an issue?”

Whereas Robert Jr. sat silent, Could started to sob.

“I simply really feel very disenchanted with myself,” she instructed the 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, considering that is the place he would cease. And I used to be clearly improper. I imply, clearly improper. I missed the mark.”

Mary 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-wrenching admission: “I wished to die on the time.”

“You understand how that might 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 are the one purpose I did not kill myself.”

“You need to know I really like you greater than something,” Mary, who shares Robert Jr. with husband, Robert Cosby Sr., mentioned as she wept. “Greater than something on this world. I feel I really like you greater than dad, like, do not ever inform dad I mentioned that, however you are my pal, you are my son, you are my reward. God gave you to me. You are the one factor that ever made me completely happy. Earlier than I had you, I used to be by no means completely happy. You got here and also you have been so actual. It was all the things I hoped for in an individual.”

Wiping away tears of his personal, Robert Jr. instructed his mother, “I simply barely began being completely happy once more.”

“Please acknowledge it, personal it and alter it. As a result of you possibly can,” Mary suggested, earlier than reaching out to her son and pulling him in for a hug.

“I really like you,” he whispered to her.

Following Wednesday evening’s episode, Bravo exec, Andy Cohen, sat down with a few of the Housewives, previous and new, for a particular episode of Watch What Occurs Reside from Bravo’s Fan Fest in Miami, Florida, the place he addressed the true and uncooked second between Mary and her son with fellow RHOSLC stars, Heather Homosexual and Meredith Marks.

“It was fully compelling tv, and it sort of introduced me again to why we watch actuality TV within the first place,” Heather mentioned. “For folks to inform their tales and for his or her tales to have influence.”

For Meredith, watching the sitdown between Mary and her son helped clarify a few of Mary’s habits throughout RHOSLC‘s fifth season, together with a second in a earlier episode which noticed Mary ask Meredith to depart throughout a heated Breakfast at Tiffany’s-themed brunch at her residence.

“I didn’t know in real-time,” Meredith mentioned of Robert Jr.’s points. “I had no thought. It makes me very unhappy I didn’t know in real-time as a result of I went by a really comparable circumstance a few years again with my nephew and I really feel like I might’ve been a giant assist to Mary.”

She added, “It was very unhappy to me that I used to be unable to be there for her. I did observe that she appeared totally different, that one thing appeared barely off.”

Andy, in the meantime, instructed viewers and the viewers that he spoke to Mary earlier than Wednesday’s episode aired, and she or he instructed him that “Robert Jr. is doing properly.”

In the event you or somebody you understand is combating substance abuse, get assist. The Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Companies Administration (SAMHSA) Nationwide Helpline (1-800-662-4357) gives 24/7, free, confidential assist for folks in misery.

In the event you or somebody you understand is combating melancholy or has had ideas of harming themselves or taking their very own life, get assist. The Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255) gives 24/7, free, confidential assist for folks in misery.