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In the trailer for Lifetime's Gwen Shamblin: Starving For Salvation, Jennifer Grey embodies the self-proclaimed spiritual fare guru successful the outrageous communicative of her ascent to powerfulness and influence.
Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation Trailer
Jennifer Grey has undergone a hair-raising transformation.
The Dirty Dancing star plays self-proclaimed spiritual fare guru Gwen Shamblin in the trailer for Lifetime's Gwen Shamblin: Starving For Salvation.
Known conscionable arsenic overmuch for her striking hairstyle arsenic her arguable spiritual teachings—"The higher the hair, the person to God," she says successful the trailer—the movie tells the real-life communicative of Gwen, the laminitis of the Tennessee-based Remnant Fellowship Church and the Weigh Down Workshop.
"The demon isn't food," Jennifer's Gwen says successful the trailer. "It's sin."
The Weigh Down Workshop was a Christian-based fare programme that alleged supplication and a steadfast narration with a higher powerfulness had a nonstop correlation to value loss.
"Your tummy doesn't request food," Gwen says. "It needs God."
And, arsenic the trailer shows, Gwen's conception earned her legions of devoted followers. As 1 says to Gwen, "We'll travel you wherever you pb us." Gwen's conception earned her legions of devoted followers. As 1 says to Gwen, "We'll travel you wherever you pb us."
"As her religion grew crossed the nation, truthful did her iron-fisted grip arsenic its leader," the web says, "accumulating power and money, portion creating a larger-than-life nationalist persona with dramatically teased and towering hair."
Gwen's story, which was besides documented successful the 2021 HBO Max docu-series The Way Down: God, Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, becomes much sinister as her stature wrong the organization continues to grow.
"At the highest of her powerfulness and influence, Gwen demanded that religion members alienate themselves from anyone who was not a member," the web continues, "banished those that became overweight, threatened ineligible enactment against dissenters, and advocated for strict punishment of those who failed to travel religion tenets."
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Ultimately, Gwen's saga ended successful shocking manner erstwhile a level being flown by her hubby Joe Lara crashed successful May 2021, sidesplitting Gwen, Joe, their son-in-law and 4 other Remnant Fellowship Church leaders.
Gwen Shamblin: Starving For Salvation premieres Feb. 4 astatine 8 p.m. connected Lifetime.
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