If you thought you knew everything there is to know about the infamous “soft-swinging parties” that loomed over the cast of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives — think again.
“I haven’t told before what we were up to at these parties, and it’s obviously not something I’m proud of, but it’s freeing at the same time,” Taylor Frankie Paul exclusively reveals in the latest cover story for Us Weekly, out now.
“We did have sex in the shower with our husbands all together,” she adds. “We also had sex in the same bed at the same time.” According to Taylor, blindfolds were also involved … but those are details fans like Us are just going to have to wait to hear about.
Ahead of the May 12 debut of season 2, Us sat down with Taylor and her costars Miranda McWhorter, Mikayla Matthews, Layla Taylor, Whitney Leavitt, Mayci Neeley, Jessi Ngatikaura, Jen Affleck and Demi Engemann to gain a better understanding of what fans can expect to see — and learn — of the MomTok influencers.
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For Taylor, the 30-year-old mom of three will spend much of the season trying to move past the trauma of her 2022 divorce from ex-husband Tate Paul and current on-again, off-again relationship with Dakota Mortensen. (Taylor tells Us things “are complicated,” once again, with Dakota. Fans will get a glimpse of just how complicated things between the pair can be during an explosive family barbecue, where her relatives end up taking sides.)
Taylor is also hellbent on repairing her old friendship with Miranda, who was also implicated in the soft-swinging drama that caused a major rift in the friend group.
“It was nice that she came in because it opened the gates of me being able to speak actual truth about who was involved,” Taylor explains of the swinging parties and the controversy that ensued.
Taylor also faces Jenna, the woman who in season 1 claimed to have slept with Dakota.
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“I had no regrets,” Taylor tells Us of her decision to take Taylor up on her offer to go through her phone in an attempt to find answers. “I’d fixated on it for so long.”
The reality star did admit that revisiting the events that have transpired over the past few years has been “triggering,” but explains that she’s getting better at handling those triggers thanks to therapy and a renewed sense of self-worth.
“I have a backbone,” she says, adding that she is ready to take on any frenemy who might mess with her during season 2. “I don’t like to use it, but when I do, I’m going to use it.”
