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11:14 AM PT — In her TRO filing, Taylor Frankie Paul<\/a> is finally going deep into the gritty details about her side of the domestic violence drama between her and her ex Dakota Mortensen<\/a>. She says Dakota displayed signs of crazy jealousy — stalking her, assaulting her, and becoming “increasingly possessive” ahead of her debut on “The Bachelorette.” According to TFP, Dakota got her initials tattooed on the inside of his lip — something she says she found out about leading up to their February altercation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n And while Dakota is accusing TFP of assaulting him in that incident, she says he actually assaulted her in that confrontation in February<\/a>. Taylor accuses Dakota of slamming her head against the dashboard of his car while in Taylor’s driveway.<\/p>\n Even wilder … Taylor says he asked her for sex right after. According to Taylor, after she denied his advances, Dakota called the police on her.<\/p>\n Taylor Frankie Paul is going on the offensive … the reality star has just filed a temporary restraining order against her ex Dakota Mortensen, TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The filing, obtained by TMZ, comes before the estranged couple’s court hearing today concerning a protective order that was granted<\/a> to Dakota against Taylor.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In today’s proceedings, Dakota is expected to ask the court to extend his protective order against Taylor into a long-term one, as authorities investigate accusations of domestic violence, which Dakota brought against Taylor.<\/p>\n Taylor has been accused of attacking Dakota on three separate occasions — once in 2023, another time in 2024, and the last one is alleged to have happened <\/a>in February of this year. The 2023 incident was captured on video<\/a> and resulted in TFP pleading guilty to aggravated assault.<\/p>\n Play video content<\/p>\n TMZ.com<\/p>\n Amid the fallout — “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” paused filming<\/a> and her season of “The Bachelorette” was canceled<\/a> — TFP has said there’s more to the story than what’s been made available.<\/p>\n This development may signal that she’s closer to revealing her side of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Frankie Paul Files TRO Against Ex Dakota Published April 7, 2026 10:01 AM PDT | Updated April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-570304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570304","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=570304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"taylor](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3d22f81fc21a4b5e8008a451e1dfce13_md.jpg\")
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