Ivy Mayfair-Richards

"I just drove my wife crazy. I didn't get her killed!"

- Ivy to Harrison, trying to justify her actions '''"At the happiest moment in my life, when my son Oz was born, I wanted that pain. I would have celebrate every contraction. I wanted to be the one who carried our son in the womb, but I couldn't, because of my endometriosis, and... she never let me forget it. [...] She said, "My baby," like I was a stranger on the side. I couldn't even feed my son. [...] There is so much more. Her entitled, bull$**t phobias. The last straw was this election, when she voted for Jill Stein!"

- Ivy explaining her hatred towards Ally to Kai Anderson Ivy Mayfair-Richards''' is a homosexual woman living in Michigan, endorsing Hilary Colinton during the 2016 Election of the President of United States, struggling to keep the serenity of her family. She is the secondary antagonist in American Horror Story: Cult. Ivy is married to Ally, and the two women have a son named Oz.

Ivy has been involved in the cult of Kai Anderson all along and is well aware that her own neurotic and anxious wife is being gaslighted and is telling the truth, but she not only feigns innocence and treats Ally like she's crazy she also reveals to Winter that she hates Ally and could care less about her well-being.

She is portrayed by Alison Pill.

Biography
Little is known about Ivy's past, other than she met Ally after 9/11 and helped her overcome the resulting depression and triggered phobias. The opened a restaurant where Ivy would be the chef, and Ally the smiling face welcoming the customers. At some point, they married and had a child, Oz.

Personality
A young wife and mother struggling to make ends meet, Ivy is a woman who tries to be strong for those she loves, facing several difficulties when Ally's phobias begin to fracture their family's stability.

Trivia

 * It was revealed in Mid-Western Assassin that Ivy has endometriosis, a condition in which tissues that normally grow inside the uterus grow outside. Her condition is the reason why she hates her wife due to Ally being able to do what Ivy always wanted: carry and give birth to their son.