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Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul is leaving Mormonism. The fact star introduced her departure from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a submit to her Instagram story on Easter Sunday. Paul wrote that she’s going to “all the time have love and respect” for the church she grew up in and can “even proceed to go along with my household at occasions,” however mentioned it was “time to detach” herself. Within the submit, Paul mentioned she “strongly imagine[s] in Christ, God, the Bible, [and] the divine” and thinks “we’re cherished whether or not we’re praying in church constructing or from a toilet flooring at dwelling.” “I’ve additionally skilled grace and love from wonderful those who aren’t positive what they imagine if in any respect, and that’s okay too,” she wrote. “Level being there’s extra on the market to study. And I’m penning this out as a launch.”
Paul’s exit from the church comes at a turbulent time in her life. Final month, Disney introduced they had been canceling her season of The Bachelorette simply days earlier than its premiere after video emerged of a 2023 incident for which Paul was arrested on domestic-violence and child-abuse prices. Days earlier, filming on Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was paused over what police described as a “home assault investigation” involving Paul and Dakota Mortensen, her ex and the daddy of her youngest youngster, by which “allegations have been made in each instructions.” On the day the video got here out, Mortensen filed for a protecting order towards Paul, per Individuals, and was reportedly granted short-term custody of their son. Since then, police mentioned they’re additionally investigating Paul for a 3rd alleged domestic-violence incident, which reportedly occurred in 2024.
Since then, Paul has been posting frequently on social media. In a TikTok shortly earlier than her announcement on Sunday, she shared a montage of crying selfies, annotated Bible verses, and texts with an unidentified buddy reminding her to have religion. Within the caption on Instagram, Paul wrote, “the final 40 days felt like hell on earth.” “By each panic assault I prayed for power as I may really feel my physique breaking down and out from the misery of all of it,” she added. “And HE despatched simply that in varied methods together with so many simple indicators saying ‘I’m with you.” Paul mentioned she has “prayed since I used to be younger and by no means strayed away as a result of I imagine he desires us to ask for assist particularly throughout our lowest factors … Nevertheless, as an alternative of simply asking I converted to thanking him on the finish of every day irrespective of how low I felt.”
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The final 40 days felt like hell on earth, and thru each panic assault I prayed asking for power as my physique was breaking down from the the misery of all of it..and he despatched simply that in varied methods. I’ll name this half 1 of my expertise with him and but right this moment one other signal he graciously gave to stay hopeful🙏🏼
♬ Overcome – Skott
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