“It’s really been fun to share who I was when I was their age,' she says, adding that she's raising them differently than she was raised. Gay says she “loves” hearing her daughters’ perspective on the book, saying it has deepen their relationship. 'I think it gives them a lot of understanding about their parents, why we got divorced, why I made the sacrifices I made and how much they are loved,” she says. As a result, her three teenage daughters have been involved “since day one,” and have read the book. There was no distance, she says, between her life and the memoir, especially as she was writing events in real time as they unfolded. 'Writing a memoir consumed my life,' Heather Gay tells. Gay says she's 'loved' sharing the book with her 3 daughters The book offers a drastic juxtaposition between the Heather Gay that once was and the Heather Gay of today.Īhead of its publication, caught up with Gay to hear about putting the memoir together and what comes next. We have secrets that spouses keep from each other, husbands never disclosed certain oaths to their wives,” Gay continues.Īnd she’s revealing more than ever in her memoir, “Bad Mormon,” out now, describing her Mormon upbringing, Mormon marriage. “Mormons don’t speak (secrets) to each other. She's entered a new era of embracing her true self and pursuing what she really wants out of life - even if it means sharing secrets, something she wasn't raised to do.

Speaking to, Gay says she's continually breaking the ideological shackles that once confined her thinking.

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