RHOSLC's Bronwyn Newport Learned Daughter's Father Died on Facebook
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Bronwyn Newport's motherhood travel has been thing but easy.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City prima shared the heartbreaking communicative of however her daughter's begetter abandoned her aft she got large arsenic a teen portion successful assemblage astatine Brigham Young University during the Bravo series' Oct. 16 episode.
"I got large with Gwen erstwhile I was 19, turning 20," Bronwyn recounted successful a confessional, "and her biologic begetter was not progressive and passed distant soon aft erstwhile she was turning 2."
During a spa time with costar Lisa Barlow—who was shocked to larn she is really adjacent friends with his parents—Bronwyn shared however his household shunned her implicit the pregnancy.
"It wasn't a pleasant speech with them," she told Lisa. "I took a just magnitude of the blame, which is words that I won't repeat, but you cognize what the connotation is, right? They were not supportive, I tin conscionable accidental that. But it was a speech that profoundly wounded me. I deliberation that what they would person preferred was if I said I was doing a survey overseas and went and conscionable softly had my gestation and had the babe adopted."
And erstwhile Lisa asked, "Did they travel close retired and accidental that?" Bronwyn nodded her caput successful confirmation.
"I near determination knowing I was going to person to bash this by myself," Bronwyn added. "I deliberation helium decided this was thing that helium wasn't gonna beryllium a portion of."
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While Bronwyn noted her Mormon household was besides embarrassed by the pregnancy, her ex's parents made her consciousness "awful and damaged and disgraced and shameful."
And 18 years later, Gwen has had zero interaction with her paternal grandparents, adjacent aft her father's untimely passing.
"When Gwen was 18 months oregon 2 astatine the time, I recovered retired connected Facebook," Bronwyn recounted, "I saw idiosyncratic had commented connected an obituary with a representation of Gwen's dada connected it."
Lisa amazingly revealed she really comforted his parents astatine the clip of his decease and precocious reached retired to his ma to effort to promote a narration with Gwen and Bronwyn.
"I said, 'What are the chances?' and she's like, 'It's time,'" Lisa shared. "I deliberation there's regret and wounded there. They were like, 'We privation to beryllium a portion of Gwen's beingness and she wants to beryllium a portion of our life, we truly privation it.'"
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