‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' Star Layla Interview with Cosmo
Each member of #MomTok has a unique talent for stirring up drama, but no one was quite as good at it in season 2 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives as Layla Taylor. The 24-year-old single mother of two has generally been one of the least dramatic members of the group, but in season 2 she consistently found herself at the scene of the crime, which caused some fans on TikTok to wonder if she was really a producer plant.
'It's an unscripted show,' Layla tells Cosmopolitan, dismissing the theory that she was essentially doing the producers' bidding. 'No. Obviously no, those actions and the things that I did were not forced upon me.' Showing Taylor Frankie Paul her private text exchanges with Demi Engemann on a private jet? That was her idea. Getting everyone to play pregnancy roulette and inadvertently forcing Mikayla Matthews and Mayci Jeeley to reveal their pregnancies? That's on her too.
'Things will happen and it looks abrupt, but I think you have to remember that they cut a lot out and they cut a lot out of that conversation leading to me showing Taylor the text messages and my intentions behind that. They cut out [my intentions behind] pregnancy roulette,' she continues. 'So, I feel like, at the end of the day, you have to remember that you're seeing so little, and obviously they can't show a 30 minute conversation that leads me to doing an action.'
The only person responsible for Layla's actions on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is Layla. And she's ready to own it all, even her not-so-great moments, like going after Jen Affleck, who had to stop filming midway through the season to take care of her mental health.
'Something that I regret would be writing the 'Jen is fake' [note in the Truth Box]. I think if I knew more context about what she was going through in the moment, I absolutely would've not written that,' she tells Cosmo when asked what her biggest regret of the season is. 'Once I did find out context of what she was struggling with, I completely dropped what I was doing and kind of put everything aside for that,' she adds. 'But I think looking back, I probably wouldn't have written that.'
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