The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul admitted she wouldn’t be surprised to find out new bombshells about her ex Dakota Mortensen.
Taylor, 30, replied to a TikTok from a viewer on Saturday, July 5, which read, “Idk how to tell Taylor that Dakota has a whole other family.” The video was a joke that referenced a popular trend where TikTok users compare their significant others to their celebrity lookalikes, but Taylor had a stronger response.
“I won’t be shocked at this point,” she noted. “I don’t know him at all ha.”
Dakota, 32, is no stranger to the internet speculating about his personal life. He recently shut down rumors that he was expecting another child with a mystery woman.
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“No babies on the way,” Dakota, who shares 13-month-old son Ever with Taylor, wrote via TikTok in May. “I am not having a kid with anybody. I haven’t slept with anyone since I have dated Taylor until now. If anybody wants to try to prove that wrong, by all means be my guest.”
He continued: “I just wanted to clear the air because there’s a few girls out here that said they are even pregnant with my child. Lots of crazy stuff but anyways, no baby coming!”
Taylor also weighed in on the drama at the time, writing via TikTok, “A girl claiming to be having his baby as I’m putting myself in timeout for actually being his bm [baby mama]. I think it’s a joke, I sure hope so.”
In a follow-up post, Taylor joked about how she’s not proud that she shares a baby with Dakota, writing, “I’m trying to hide the fact I’m one of his baby mamas.”
Dakota, for his part, acknowledged on an episode of “The Viall Files” in June that he is currently not on the best terms with Taylor.
“I know a lot of people from a viewer point of view [don’t understand that] having everything aired out to the world is a lot different than just going to a person you care about or your family and telling them something,” he explained. “Like, you want to talk about fear, that’s the scariest feeling in the world.”
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Dakota noted that filming a reality TV show didn’t help their relationship.
“Then doing it with a show, you don’t have any control over it. If they’re missing something, it’s like that’s not how it was. That to me was really hard to grasp,” he recalled. “That was hard to understand. I was like, ‘I don’t want to be torched to the world for it. I just want to have a moment with you where I can talk to you. I want a safe place to talk.’ But that’s not the case.”
Taylor and Dakota were dating when they started filming season 1 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives but called it quits by the time production started on the second season.
“We’ve obviously come a long way to navigate [coparenting],” Taylor, who also shares daughter Indy, 7, and son Ocean, 4, with ex-husband Tate Paul, shared with Us Weekly in a May cover story. “It’s different from my first husband because there’s obviously a friendship there. We adjusted. Whereas [with] Dakota, everything’s fresh. It’s something that we necessarily didn’t want to do but needed to separate.”
