The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin(2021)

📺TV Series
6.8/10
📅2021-09-30 - 2022-04-28
🎬1 Season
📺5 Episodes
📡HBO Max

Overview

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.

Documentary

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