"David was kind of hidden from view. Gwen would say that she loved him and she served him and everything else like that, but he would not come to the festivals,

"David was kind of hidden from view. Gwen would say that she loved him and she served him and everything else like that, but he would not come to the festivals, he didn't come to church," Byrd said in The Way Down, speculating that this was because he "definitely didn't represent everything that Gwen was saying was right or righteous because, you know, he was overweight. So, how could he be right or righteous if he was overweight?"

And, according to Joe Lara's ex-girlfriend Natasha Pavlovich, the split wasn't amicable or mutual by any means. Pavolovich said in an interview with the HBO producers that David was blindsided by Gwen's request for a divorce, alleging, "He was begging his wife to stay in the marriage."

Byrd and Graves told the documentarians this was when their faith in the Remnant started to falter, as they believed Gwen was a hypocrite. Graves said it was unfair, explaining, "She has not let any woman divorce their husband ever in that place, and all of us women that had biblical authority, you know, infidelity, we couldn't."