If you think you already have all the information about the well-known “soft-swinging parties” that hovered over the characters of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, then you might need to reconsider.
“I have never shared before what took place at these parties, and it’s certainly not something I take pride in, but it’s also liberating at the same time,” Taylor Frankie Paul exclusively discloses in the latest cover story of Us Weekly, available now.
“We engaged in intimate activities in the shower with our spouses all together,” she continues. “We also had intimate interactions in the same bed simultaneously.” Taylor mentions that blindfolds were also part of the experiences… but those specifics are something readers like those at Us will have to anticipate.
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.
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.
“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.”
