Taylor Frankie Paul is distancing herself from Mormon church amid domestic abuse allegations

Taylor Frankie Paul is breaking from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The embattled “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” prima announced connected Easter Sunday that she’s parting ways with the religion she built her marque on.

“Born and raised Mormon (lds) and I’ll ever person emotion and respect towards it,” she wrote Sunday successful an Instagram story. “I’ll adjacent proceed to spell with my household astatine times, with that being said, it’s clip to detach myself from it.”

Paul launched her vocation arsenic a Mormon mom-fluencer connected TikTok earlier she landed “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” the world tv bid that leveraged her #MomTok success.

The bid offered a look astatine Mormon moms successful Utah that subverted viewers’ expectations. Paul drank intoxicant and scandalized her online pursuing erstwhile she admitted that her societal ellipse participated successful “soft swinging” successful which they swapped partners for hookups but “didn’t spell each the way.” The bid followed her done the aftermath of a divorcement and an on-again, off-again narration with Dakota Mortensen, each of which is frowned upon by the Mormon church.

“I powerfully judge successful Christ, God, the bible, the divine,” she continued successful her post. “I judge we are loved whether we are praying successful [a] religion gathering oregon from a bath level astatine home.”

Paul was acceptable to pb Season 22 of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” until a leaked video of a 2023 home quality betwixt Paul and Mortensen made its mode crossed the internet. Though the full play had been taped, ABC nixed the premiere, and “Secret Lives” besides paused production. Her casting was a interruption from “The Bachelorette” contented successful that she had not been a contestant connected a erstwhile play of “The Bachelor.”

Now constabulary are investigating allegations of a 2nd and 3rd home unit incidental involving Paul and Mortensen, and arsenic a effect of the enquiry Paul has temporarily mislaid custody of the lad she shares with Mortensen. A proceeding regarding the protective bid is acceptable for Tuesday and whitethorn find whether a last protective bid is granted by the Utah court.

“The past 40 days felt similar hellhole connected earth,” Paul wrote successful a abstracted Instagram station connected Sunday. The station stitched unneurotic photos of Bible scripture, Paul crying, symptom alleviation patches and idiosyncratic notes scrawled done notebooks.

“Through each panic onslaught I prayed for spot arsenic I could consciousness my assemblage breaking down and retired from the distress of it all. ... I’ve prayed since I was young and ne'er strayed distant due to the fact that I judge helium wants america to inquire for assistance particularly during our lowest points.”