The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Dakota Mortensen revealed the place he stands with ex Taylor Frankie Paul after their messy cut up.
Throughout the Wednesday, June 4, episode of “The Viall Information” podcast, Dakota, 32, stated his and Taylor’s dynamic is “actually contemporary proper now” as they coparent their son, Ever, 15 months. Nonetheless, he didn’t elaborate on any particulars about their relationship following their tumultuous cut up.
Throughout season 1 of the Hulu actuality present, followers noticed the couple get into an altercation that led to Taylor, 31, being charged with aggravated assault in 2023. She went on to undergo a miscarriage and have become pregnant once more with Ever.
Season 1 ended with a cliffhanger after costar Mayci Neeley realized that Dakota had been untrue.
Taylor gave an replace about the place she and Dakota stood in the course of the season 2 premiere in Might. “Proper after Ever was born, Dakota and I have been dwelling collectively and in bliss with our new child, and I used to be even contemplating engagement. After which I realized that he was mendacity this complete time,” she defined in the course of the first episode of the season.
Followers watched the pair have an on-off relationship for the rest of the season, although they ultimately ended issues for good in late 2024.
Dakota mirrored on their relationship throughout his “Viall Information” look, telling hosts Natalie Pleasure and Nick Viall that he was “scared” once they first began relationship due to how sturdy his emotions have been for her.
“I used to be so afraid of how a lot I favored Taylor and the way afraid I used to be of her and understanding that I didn’t know actually what she needed, or if this might even be a factor,” he stated, stating that Taylor was “nonetheless speaking to the person she had an affair with” in the course of the early days of their romance.
“I’m not silly. I can clearly learn these issues. I nonetheless knew there was one thing happening there,” he stated. “I didn’t actually essentially wish to give her 100% of me as a result of I used to be afraid of that. I didn’t wish to get damage by that, as a result of that’s how I’m. After I’m all in, I’m all in.”
Dakota stated that the uncertainty he felt of their relationship “led to a few of these dumb errors” early on of their romance.
Dakota Mortensen
In the meantime, Taylor just lately opened up about her single standing whereas speaking to Selection and admitted that the present’s reputation has made her query folks’s intentions.
“I’m very scared to get on the market and date. I can’t actually even image it taking place for me. I don’t know folks’s intentions, or in the event that they’re simply wanting to this point to get on the present. And so you need to query folks’s intentions,” she stated. “I even have three youngsters, so who needs to return in and take over that function?”
Regardless of her hesitations to this point, Taylor stated that she has “an excellent instinct” and “can inform when one thing’s proper and when it’s not.” She then jokingly added, “Clearly, that’s why I’m not with my child daddy.”
