‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' Star Taylor Frankie Paul Reveals She's Moving ‘Somewhere New' for ‘Fresh Start' After Dakota Mortensen Split

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'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' star Taylor Frankie Paul has tearfully revealed that she is moving out of her Utah home in a bid to start over after her heartbreaking split from Dakota Mortensen, with whom she shares a baby son.
Paul, 31, who welcomed son Ever True, 1, with Mortensen in March 2024, announced the news by sharing an Instagram video in which she could be seen breaking down in tears while packing up her belongings alongside her baby boy.
'Helping me pack for somewhere new,' Paul wrote alongside the clip, which showed Ever keeping his mom company as she unloaded a closet in her home.
'At least I get an angel out of it,' she added, alluding to her bitter split from Mortensen, whom she began dating in 2022, shortly after her first marriage ended due to her involvement in a 'soft-swinging scandal' that Paul exposed on her TikTok page.
Paul's involvement in—and ultimate exposure of—the 'soft-swinging' that she claims took place among a circle of friends in Utah caused such a frenzy of speculation that it led to the influencer and her friends landing their own Hulu series, 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,' which premiered its second season in May.
The show focuses on a group of Mormon women who reside in Utah, many of whom were involved in the popular #MomTok trend on TikTok, which Paul claims to have started.
It's unclear whether she is now set to turn her back on her Utah community once and for all by moving to a new city and state—or she is simply moving to a new home to seek her 'fresh start.'
Despite her obvious upset over the end of her three-year romance with Mortensen, Paul wrote in her caption that she would endure the heartbreak again and again if it meant that she'd become a mother to Ever, who is the younger sibling to her other two kids with her ex-husband.
'If it took all this pain to just get him, I'd do it again,' she shared.
Paul then clarified that she wasn't embarrassed to share her heartbreak with her 1.4 million-plus followers.
'I have no shame. If you can post happiness, you can post sadness too,' she wrote. '[I am] processing pain and yes I want a fresh start.'
Her relocation news comes after her high-profile split from Mortensen, with whom she was embroiled in a tumultuous on-again, off-again romance that had more than its fair share of scandalous moments—not least when Paul was arrested after allegedly throwing a chair at her partner during a domestic dispute.
Paul, who reached a plea deal with prosecutors over the incident, faced furious backlash online after it was revealed in a police report that the chair—which she had aimed at Mortensen—had accidentally struck her then-5-year-old daughter, Indy, whom she shares with her ex, Tate Paul.
Her relationship with Mortensen then suffered another blow when people online claimed that he had been unfaithful to the Mormon mom and had even impregnated another woman while still seeing Taylor Frankie Paul.
Mortensen fiercely denied the rumors via a TikTok video shared on May 29, noting that he hadn't been intimate with anyone since Paul.
'No babies on the way. 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.
'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,' he clarified.
Paul also shared her thoughts on the matter: '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.'
The influencer also spoke about her former beau's cheating scandal in her hit Hulu show, telling viewers, 'Right after Ever was born, Dakota and I were living together and in bliss with our new baby, and I was even considering engagement, and then I learned that he was lying this entire time.'
Paul currently lives in Daper, UT, with her children, and it is unclear what city she will be going to next.
She previously told Us Weekly that she and Mortensen were working on navigating co-parenting in a mature manner.
'We've obviously come a long way to navigate [co-parenting],' Paul, who also shares son Ocean, 4, with her ex-husband.
She added, '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.
'So it's an adjustment and we've had to learn through the obstacles of this experience to do what's best for our son.
'Of course when things are heightened, you're breaking up and it's not something you wanted and you just had a baby. It was not the prettiest experience, but currently we've come a long way.'
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