{"id":427963,"date":"2026-05-02T02:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427963\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:09:18","slug":"mormon-wives-star-jessi-draper-changed-tune-on-taylor-frankie-paul-audio-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427963\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Mormon Wives\u2019 Star Jessi Draper Changed Tune on Taylor Frankie Paul, Audio Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jessi Draper<\/a> has clearly changed her mind when it comes to Taylor Frankie Paul<\/a> … because she bashed her costar in a voice memo to Dakota Mortensen<\/a> just two months ago — but now she’s providing a full-throated defense of Taylor instead.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal … we’ve obtained the voice memo Jessi sent to Dakota on March 5 … in the wake of production pausing on ‘SLOMW’ over a new bout of domestic violence allegations involving Taylor and Dakota.<\/p>\n

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In the message, Jessi tells Dakota the cast is aligned in holding back on any public support for Taylor … she says they know the “truth” about Taylor … and she claims production and management on ‘SLOMW’ is gaslighting the cast by painting Taylor as a victim and Dakota as a liar.<\/p>\n

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Jessi says the show’s cast views the situation between Taylor and Dakota as not only serious, but also dangerous … particularly when it comes to Taylor and Dakota’s kids … and Jessi says the group feels a lack of accountability from Taylor would be harmful.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Jessi suggests it might help things if the cast members were able to see videos of Taylor being violent … and she singles out Mikayla Matthews<\/a> as being “the most vocal” about wanting to see footage.<\/p>\n

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Unclear if the cast ever saw footage related to the 2026 domestic violence claims … but a couple weeks after Jessi sent the message to Dakota, TMZ obtained and published video of Taylor’s brutal 2023 attack<\/a> on Dakota … which led to Taylor’s ‘Bachelorette’ season getting shelved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jessi ends her message expressing sympathy for both Taylor and Dakota … lamenting, “no one wins.”<\/p>\n

Jessi has since done an about-face … as we told you, Jessi is now helping<\/a> Taylor in her restraining order battle<\/a> against Dakota — filing a declaration on her behalf.<\/p>\n

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During the hearing Thursday, Taylor’s lawyer mentioned a conversation Jessi walked in on … where she found Dakota and his roommate, Cru Ethan, kicking around a plan to release the infamous video of Taylor throwing a barstool at Dakota.<\/p>\n

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What’s more … Draper somehow learned we planned to publish the audio — and has now hopped online to explain the voice memo. She says she was in a relationship with an abusive partner — Jordan Ngatikaura<\/a> — who was best friends with Dakota, and she always felt pressured to take Dakota’s side over Taylor’s.<\/p>\n

She says she doesn’t remember what she said in the audio … but it doesn’t reflect how she feels about Taylor now — adding the two have become best friends in recent months.<\/p>\n

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Jessi adds Season 5 of ‘SLOMW’ provides a ton of necessary context to explain how everyone was feeling when she sent the voice memo … but, obviously, fans won’t hear that side of the story until the next season drops.<\/p>\n

Bottom line … Jessi says she’s felt the way she did at the time — but, now she’s a Team Taylor ride or die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content Jessi Draper has clearly changed her mind when it comes to Taylor Frankie Paul ……\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-427963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}