While it has been over four months since Season 2 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was released on Hulu, MomTok star Taylor Frankie Paul is still publicly defending her family’s behavior on the show.
In a TikTok posted on September 21, Paul shared a clip of her and her step dad yelling at each other during that infamous family barbecue followed by a montage of childhood photos of the two of them with on screen text reading, “All they know about you, but don’t worry dad, I know. You stepped into my life and never left. My biggest supporter at every milestone, game, event, and still are.”
“This man did everything for us meanwhile my actual father never showed up,” she wrote in the post’s caption.
Paul seemed to be hopeful that this would get her fans to ease up on the negative comments towards her stepdad, which all began after an argument on the show between Paul, her family, and Dakota Mortensen, her ex boyfriend and father of her child Ever.
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During the argument, which centered on Mortensen seeing another woman at the beginning of his relationship with Paul, Paul’s step father Jeremy May said, “Here’s the thing, I’m going to be blunt freaking honest: he just told me that you guys had seen each other three times before all this, and then you’re sitting there telling me that he came over and had sex with you. What does that say about you?”
“That’s what I’m saying, I was trash!” Paul yelled back as she teared up, before putting her head in the hands and beginning to cry.
Despite Paul’s most recent defensive post, most fans still seemed determined to lovingly push her to accept better treatment from those around her, even if those people are her parents whom she loves.
“Two things can be true he stepped up and the things he said are toxic and harmful. Parents are human just like everyone else. You can love them and recognize things need to be better,” one fan commented on the post.
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“It’s easy to love a little girl, it’s much harder to love a girl the way she needs when they become a teenager and adult. Some men aren’t up for the challenge. Hopefully he has apologized and changed the way he speaks to you,” another fan commented on the post.
