Taylor Frankie Paul weighed in on her dynamic with ex Dakota Mortensen ahead of their alleged domestic dispute — and when she realized she deserved more.
“It was hard because I’m, obviously, a part of that — it’s not like I am pointing the finger like, ‘He is [the toxic one.]’ It takes two to tango. We were just not progressing,” Taylor, 31, said in Us Weekly’s cover story earlier this month. “We like each other sometimes, and then we fight. It’s really hard to explain to people and unless you’ve been in that situation, it is hard to understand. If I could just snap out of it, trust me, I would. It’s just a lot harder said than done.”
In the season 4 finale of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which premiered on Thursday, March 12, costar Jessi Ngatikaura claimed Taylor slept with on-again, off-again ex Dakota Mortensen the night before leaving to film The Bachelorette. Taylor ultimately missed her plane, citing that she was feeling “sick,” before catching a later flight and heading to the Bachelor Mansion.
When asked what was happening in their relationship at that point, Taylor reflected to Us, “Honestly, I think it was just still in the same cycle that I’ve been in for a while now, and it’s been really hard to get out … It’s been so hard to remove myself from that.”
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Days after the episode aired, news broke that Mormon Wives allegedly halted production after Taylor and Dakota were involved in a domestic violence dispute while filming season 5. A spokesperson for the Draper City Police Department confirmed to People that there is an open “domestic assault investigation” involving the pair. Us Weekly reached out for comment at the time.
Taylor, for her part, weighed in during her cover story interview on where she and Dakota stand today — post-Mormon Wives season 4 and as The Bachelorette season 22 starts. (Taylor and Dakota welcomed son Ever in 2024. Taylor is also mom to daughter Indy and son Ocean, whom she shares with ex Tate Paul.)
“That’s a good question,” she said. “I don’t even know. I have to ask myself that question all the time. Where do we stand? I don’t know. Ask me tomorrow.”
As for how she reassured the men of The Bachelorette — and herself — that she was ready to turn the page on her chapter with Dakota, Taylor told Us “it was a choice.”
“Ready, at the end of the day, is a decision,” she said. “So I made the decision to leave for two months and try. I reassured them that was why I was here.”
The Bachelorette season 22 premieres on ABC Sunday, March 22, at 8 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Hulu.
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