Eleven months after weight-loss cult leader Gwen Shamblin died in a plane crash, survivors of her Tennessee church are coming forward to share horrifying details of the stringent starvation diets and brainwashing they faced - which led one former member to attempt suicide and left another with irreparable damage to her kidneys.'Gwen broke my family and the only thing I can do is pick up the pieces, because that's what she left,' says Mindy Alvarez, a former member of the Remnant Fellowship Church, in the explosive two-part finale HBO Max docuseries The Way Down, which lifts the lid on the organization and the lasting trauma suffered by many of its members. For Shamblin, dieting was divine.
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