{"id":568217,"date":"2026-04-06T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568217\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:11:08","slug":"taylor-frankie-paul-leaving-mormon-church-amid-bachelorette-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/568217\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Frankie Paul Leaving Mormon Church Amid Bachelorette Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTaylor Frankie Paul<\/a> is leaving the Mormon church.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe star of \u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives<\/a>\u201d and Season 22 of \u201cThe Bachelorette<\/a>,\u201d which ABC pulled amid a domestic scandal involving her ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen<\/a>, shared the personal news on Easter Sunday. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe last 40 days felt like hell on earth. Through every panic attack I prayed for strength as I could feel my body breaking down and out from the distress of it all,\u201d Paul wrote in an Instagram caption. Along with the beginning of Lent, the 40-day window before Easter lines up with the incident between herself and Mortensen that led production on \u201cMormon Wives\u201d Season 5 to go on pause<\/a>, kicking off the scandal that led to \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d being pulled.<\/a> Though specific details about the late February incident have not been made public, police investigated domestic violence allegations both parties made against each other.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe caption was posted under a video stitching together various images of Paul taking notes on the Bible, texting people about her faith and dealing with physical symptoms of her stress. Paul continued, \u201cAnd HE sent just that in various ways along with so many undeniable signs saying \u2018I am with you\u2019 which I can\u2019t wait to share that part. I\u2019ve prayed since I was young and never strayed away because I believe he wants us to ask for help especially during our lowest points. However, instead of just asking I switched over to thanking him at the end of each day no matter how low I felt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd in an Instagram story, Paul more directly addressed her religious affiliation: Though she remains a Christian, she\u2019s no longer a Mormon. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBorn and raised Mormon (lds) and I\u2019ll always have love and respect towards it. I\u2019ll even continue to go with my family at times, with that being said, it\u2019s time to detach myself from it,\u201d Paul wrote. \u201cI strongly believe in Christ, God, the bible, the divine. I believe we are loved whether we are praying in church building or from a bathroom floor at home. I\u2019ve also experienced grace and love from amazing people that aren\u2019t sure what they believe if at all and that\u2019s okay too. Point being there is more out there to learn. And I\u2019m writing this out as a release.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDays after news broke that \u201cMormon Wives\u201d was on pause because of the late February incident between Paul and Mortensen, TMZ published footage<\/a> from a 2023 domestic incident that showed Paul throwing metal chairs at Mortensen while one of her children from a previous marriage was nearby. Though the footage was new, the incident had been public knowledge and was discussed in Season 1 of \u201cMormon Wives\u201d; with Paul pleading guilty to aggravated assault and being put on probation. Still, Disney pulled Paul\u2019s season of \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d<\/a> in response to the video leaking, saying that the company\u2019s \u201cfocus is on supporting the family,\u201d with a spokesperson for Paul later saying<\/a> that \u201cafter years of silently suffering extensive mental and physical abuse as well as threats of retaliation, Taylor is finally gaining the strength to face her accuser and taking steps to ensure that she and her children are protected from any further harm.\u201d Soon after, Mortensen was granted a temporary restraining order against Paul as well as temporary custody of their son. Mortensen has also alleged that a third domestic violence incident took place in 2024<\/a>. A hearing regarding Mortensen\u2019s restraining order and the allegations between the two is set for Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Frankie Paul is leaving the Mormon church. The star of \u201cThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives\u201d and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[91034,88,90715,64613,13285,92],"class_list":["post-568217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-dakota-mortensen","tag-entertainment","tag-taylor-frankie-paul","tag-the-bachelorette","tag-the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}