

Television
The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin 2021
- Documentary
- 47 min episodes
- 1 season
- 5 episodes
- Ended
- TV-MA
The fallout of faith
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.
Documentarychild abusedietcustody battleculttennesseebeaten to deathbrainwashingreligious fundamentalismcult leaderreligious culteating disorderweight lossHBO Max
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- Eating disorders
- Harm to children
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- Gwen Shamblin LaraSelf (archive footage)
- Joe LaraSelf (archive footage)
- Natasha PavlovichSelf - Former Girlfriend of Joe Lara
- Megan CoxSelf - Member 1996-2006
- Helen ByrdSelf - Member 2008-2017
- Rafael MartinezSelf - Cult Interventionist
- Gina WilsonSelf - Member 1996-2012
- Rachel PhillipsSelf - Member 2002-2009
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- Isobel Waller-BridgeOriginal Music Composer
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- Miniseries5 eps · 2021
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