Escorts. Surveillance. Blackmail. Sex parties? <\/p>\n
Jessi Draper of \u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives\u201d is accusing her estranged second husband, Jordan Ngatikaura, of being involved in pretty much all of the above. <\/p>\n
Ngatikaura filed for divorce Thursday in Utah<\/a> after five years of marriage to Draper. Though that was far from the start of their marital problems, she told Alex Cooper during Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cCall Her Daddy<\/a>\u201d \u2014 which was taped Friday \u2014 that the dissolution filing was something they had agreed to do together. Then he changed his mind, she said, and she got the news via TMZ.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m the one who ended it. I told him on Friday the 13th, so not that long ago, and I just said I want a divorce. He definitely didn\u2019t want it. And now he\u2019s the one rushing to do it, which is a little strange,\u201d Draper told Cooper. <\/p>\n Also strange, in her view, was his choice to state on the documents that she had had an affair, though they had agreed previously that the reason would be the tried-and-true and totally non-gossipy \u201cirreconcilable differences.\u201d Plus Draper had only kissed another man twice, she said. She never had a physical affair with Marciano Brunette of \u201cVanderpump Villa,\u201d<\/a> though their emotional affair was a big part of the third season of \u201cMormon Wives.\u201d Also, Utah is a no-fault state when it comes to divorce. <\/p>\n The Times was unable to contact Ngatikaura on Wednesday for comment on Draper\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n During the chat, Draper called her estranged husband \u201ccalculated\u201d and \u201cemotionally abusive\u201d and said he told her he had been advised by someone to file on his own. She also admitted to Cooper that their marriage most likely was what it was because she went too quickly from divorcing her first husband to starting a relationship with her second. <\/p>\n That said, Draper said that right before Season 1 of \u201cMormon Wives\u201d dropped on Hulu in September 2024, she was given \u201cproof\u201d that Ngatikaura had been using an escort service in Texas. At the time, she presented her evidence to him, she said, only to have him say it had probably been generated by AI. <\/p>\n Draper also said she had heard rumors of \u201csex parties\u201d that he allegedly attended, though her sourcing on that allegation was definitely of the friend-of-a-friend-who-was-there variety. She further claimed that Ngatikaura had listened in on her personal conversations via cameras in her house \u2014 cameras she said he unplugged when he moved back into the house and she moved to a hotel \u2014 and had blackmailed her, threatening to post texts between her and Brunette online.<\/p>\n \u201cAny time he was mad at me, he\u2019s like, \u2018I\u2019m going to post them. I\u2019m going to ruin your life,\u2019\u201d Draper told Cooper.<\/p>\n One day, she said, Ngatikaura told her he believed in traditional gender roles and that he should be in his masculine and she in her feminine, and therefore she should do Pilates every day. That led to a fight, during which he threatened to post the texts he had been keeping in a draft in his phone. Nobody knew yet what had happened between her and Brunette, and she worried that exposing everything would hurt her business, where she employs dozens of people. <\/p>\n \u201cI went to go grab his phone. I was like, \u2018Jordan, no … This could ruin everything.\u2019 And he goes, \u2018OK.\u2019 And I\u2019m freaking out. So, I\u2019m trying to get his phone. I\u2019m kind of chasing him, trying to get it. He pulls out his phone, starts recording me, and he\u2019s like, \u2018What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Are you going to be like, \u201cTaylor, should I call the cops?\u201d\u2019 (referring to her embattled co-star and best friend, Taylor Frankie Paul<\/a>, whose season of \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d was nixed before it aired).<\/p>\n \u201cI was like, \u2018Whoa,\u2019 \u2018cause he\u2019s friends with Dakota [Mortenson, Paul\u2019s on-and-off boyfriend], so he\u2019s like hearing things like that, obviously, and he\u2019s baiting me and he\u2019s trying to be like, \u2018Oh, oh, what are you doing?\u2019 And that was the moment where, for me, I was like, \u2018What am I doing? I am chasing around my husband trying to get his phone so he doesn\u2019t blackmail me. This is not healthy.\u2019 And I literally left him the next day,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n \u201cI was like, this can\u2019t happen anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Escorts. Surveillance. Blackmail. Sex parties? 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