Taylor Frankie Paul Says Others Linked to Mormon Swinging Scandal Are ‘Nervous’ About Present

Premiering this week, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives follows a sisterhood of Mormon women struggling to rebound from a intercourse scandal that rocked the group to its core. As they try to find a path forward, moreover they face new drama with the lads of their lives and each other, with cameras catching the entire fireworks.

Paul uncovered the intercourse scandal on the guts of the current once more in May 2022 when she launched her then-husband Tate Paul was divorcing her. On the time, she claimed the pair have been part of a “clean swinging” neighborhood — which suggests they could stop wanting having penetrative intercourse with totally different people.   The affiliation went bitter, nonetheless, after she claimed to have gone too far with one other individual of their neighborhood … and some occasions involved “developed feelings.”

Not one of many totally different women inside the Hulu current’s strong have been instantly tied to the scandal, though Demi Engemann acknowledged she was at occasions the place her husband obtained weird “vibes” and specified they don’t share. Engemann moreover claimed Paul suggested them she “positively thought we’d be gratifying to swing with,” sooner than accusing her of being “additional flirty” collectively along with her husband at one in every of many occasions.

When TooFab caught up with Paul, alongside costar Jessi Ngatikaura, sooner than the premiere, we questioned whether or not or not she wished others who’ve been linked to the swinging controversy spoke up when it occurred … or have been part of the current collectively along with her.

“Yeah. I’m actually glad you’ve gotten requested this because you’re the first particular person to ask me this. Certain, fully,” she suggested TooFab. “It’s unfortunate on account of they’re coming out after the actual fact of the current being filmed. I felt like out of respect to them, I don’t take into account I used any names of people involved. I was very respectful, like, I’ll have gotten right here out and completely acknowledged it, you perceive?”

“Nevertheless when the trailer was launched, there’s podcasts being made, there’s people coming out now and it’s merely, like–” she added, sooner than Jessi interjected, “Harm administration.”

“They’re merely nervous,” Paul continued. “And I’m like, the place was all this whenever you would have–? and who’s to say I even talked about you on the current anyhow?”

In newest weeks, MomTok alums Miranda McWhorter and Camille Munday — who’ve been every instantly linked to the scandal nevertheless denied being swingers — have been launched once more into the spotlight after Munday did a podcast interview. Whereas speaking with Weekly Trash, she claimed every she and Camille have been requested to be part of the Hulu current, nevertheless turned it down.

“For our lives, it didn’t actually really feel correct the least bit,” she acknowledged, together with that “it certainly not made me actually really feel good,” and expressing issues about her family.

Paul then hopped onto her private TikTok and claimed the women really turned down the current on account of they refused to be on a group collectively along with her. That led to McWhorter sharing textual content material receipts exhibiting they’ve been concerned about Paul’s assault case, lastly turning down the current sooner than realizing the choice in her case. Chase moreover took to his private TikTok to defend his ex, calling Paul’s claims a “pretty obvious attempt at garnering some clicks and views for the upcoming current.”

Paul then hit once more as soon as extra, saying the receipts solely proved her stage, together with that her intention wasn’t additional PR nevertheless the additional consideration wasn’t “hurting us each.”

“They’re possibly doing a disservice to themselves,” she suggested TooFab, sooner than together with, “and I’d not be shocked within the occasion that they received right here out and tried for Season 2, if we obtained one.”

The swinging scandal would not likely subject into this full first season that lots earlier the first episode. For Paul, her storyline primarily revolves around her typically dangerous relationship with Dakota Mortensen.

On the time of filming, Paul was pregnant with the couple’s first teenager collectively, following a house violence arrest for Paul in February 2023. Whereas she was initially charged with two felony counts of residence violence inside the presence of a child, one felony rely of aggravated assault, and one misdemeanor rely of child abuse and jail mischief, she lastly accepted a plea deal, which found her pleading accountable to at the very least one rely of aggravated assault; the other costs have been dismissed.

All by the season, the two normally wrestle with each other, as perception factors and self-sabotage threaten to tear them apart. At components, her costars identify the connection “toxic,” her private mom and father seem to take problem with their romance, and Dakota has to apologize for “overreacting” all through one in every of their additional explosive arguments.

“I consider he had intention of being like an amazing boyfriend and defending and I consider it could come off completely fully totally different and he’s nervous for a method he’s gonna come off ‘set off he’s such an actual good man on the end of the day,” Paul suggested TooFab of how Mortensen is feeling ahead of the premiere.

Her man isn’t the one totally different half who gained’t come off making an attempt the easiest when the current drops, as Paul acknowledged, “I cannot converse for the other guys, nevertheless there have been some points I’m constructive you observed in there that they might regret doing on TV.”

“Nevertheless what variety of events do you get to take a look at the errors once more, you perceive?” added Jessi. “So hopefully they’ll take it and develop. Nevertheless there are some husbands and boyfriends which might be possibly gonna be cringe-watching it.”

As for Paul herself, she hopes getting the current available on the market helps followers see deeper than “merely the headlines that you just simply hear” about her — though she admits she wasn’t virtually as present with the other women of #MomTok as she would have most popular.

“I want– I wanted to be present with additional of my girls. Because of I actually really feel like I was so distracted — clearly one, like, family and my relationship — that I wasn’t present proper right here and able to, like, converse my ideas with #MomTok,” she shared. “And that’s the goal of the current and I merely sat once more and watched all of it like, what inside the heck?”

“I’ve an opinion and I didn’t say a whole lot there. And I consider if I’d return, I’d do that another way,” she added.

Fingers crossed for Season 2!

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives drops Friday on Hulu.