Dakota Mortensen and Taylor Frankie Paul. Courtesy of Taylor Frankie Paul/Instagram
Season 2 of Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has seemingly paved the best way for Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen to reunite after their offscreen break up.
Taylor took to TikTok earlier this month to share a video of Dakota doing chores round their dwelling and giving her flowers.
“At the least he be tryin,” Taylor captioned the publish. Her costar Layla Taylor poked enjoyable at Dakota within the feedback part, replying, “GIRL IM TIREDDDDDD.”
Followers of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives additionally weighed in by way of the feedback part, sharing their ideas on Taylor and Dakota’s potential reconciliation. “Could a love like this by no means discover me,” wrote one follower, whereas one other referred to as Dakota’s efforts the “naked minimal.”
Others questioned Dakota’s abilities at wiping the ground and cleansing the home. “Him cleansing the bathroom with the bathroom seat down is all I have to know,” replied one other social media consumer.
Taylor and Dakota didn’t simply obtain criticism although — a number of individuals confirmed their assist for the couple and their obvious reconciliation.
“Actually if anybody acts like their relationship is ideal they’re mendacity. Kudos to you each for attempting to work issues out and do your finest. Solely the very best vibes going ahead ❤️,” learn one response. One other individual added, “ANND he began #dadtok simply to impress you lady like whaaaaat 😂🥰.”
Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen. Courtesy of Taylor Frankie Paul/Instagram
Season 1 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which premiered in September, adopted Taylor and Dakota’s relationship ups and downs. The season began with the couple discovering out they had been anticipating their first child collectively earlier than Taylor subsequently suffered an ectopic being pregnant. The season premiere ended with footage from Taylor’s February 2023 arrest for alleged? home violence.
Taylor was finally charged with aggravated assault, two counts of home violence within the presence of a kid, little one abuse with harm and prison mischief after the incident. She pleaded responsible in August 2023 to aggravated assault, whereas the opposite 4 expenses had been dismissed with prejudice, reaching a plea deal the next month.
“The primary few days [when the show came out], I used to be really actually busy that I couldn’t simply binge it. I had my youngsters and for some cause I do really feel uncomfortable with my youngsters watching it,” Taylor, who shares daughter Indy, 7, and son Ocean, 4, with ex-husband Tate Paul and 7-month-old son Ever with Dakota, solely informed Us Weekly one month later. “It makes me really feel uncomfortable. After which it offers me anxiousness.”
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Months later, cameras as soon as once more began following Taylor, this time when she was pregnant with Ever.
“It’s actually onerous for me to observe [the ups and downs with me and Dakota] as a result of it’s all such true emotions. None of it’s fabricated or performing or nothing. It’s all actual,” she famous. “So it’s actually onerous for me to observe that again to that. That’s most likely one of many hardest moments.”
Taylor admitted on the time that she wasn’t positive about her relationship standing with Dakota. Hulu has since renewed the present for a second season and filming has already begun.
Dakota Mortensen. Courtesy of Taylor Frankie Paul/Instagram
“I might say we’re engaged on issues and I really don’t know the place it goes with us from right here. We aren’t absolutely collectively, however not absolutely finished. I don’t know the place the longer term holds with him and I,” she admitted. “It’s only a lot. So I’m coping and attempting to manage. However I don’t need to watch the present.”
Taylor went on to say how she wished viewers noticed extra of Dakota’s “good mushy aspect,” including, “I really feel like for him, that wasn’t proven on the present. It did present simply protection. So he’s like, ‘I appear to be this asshole to you when you’re pregnant — when that’s simply not the case of how I handled you the entire time. Sure, I did defend myself in circumstances, however that’s not how I’m to you.’ … I can’t converse for him, however I’m positive he desires to inform his aspect as nicely [on season 2].”