Taylor Frankie Paul breaks silence on domestic dispute with ex Dakota Mortensen: ‘I’m struggling’

Taylor Frankie Paul lamented nan “timing” of her alleged home unit incident pinch Dakota Mortensen, arsenic she collapsed her soundlessness connected nan drama.

“Honestly, conscionable like, my bosom hurts to spot it, to spell done it, particularly astatine this time,” she told People connected Tuesday during a property preview for “The Bachelorette.”

“Just nan timing is hard, and it’s a large deal. I consciousness for illustration each premiere that I’ve experienced, I’ve ne'er enjoyed fully, truthful this is different one… it’s highly hard, and it took everything to get maine present today.”

Paul, 31, besides said it was a “heavy time” and called it “unfortunate.”

“I’m struggling for sure, but besides astatine nan aforesaid clip I consciousness for illustration if I don’t show up, past I’m conscionable giving these opportunities distant and not enjoying what we’ve worked connected and thing ace breathtaking that’s coming,” she continued, referencing her upcoming turn arsenic nan Bachelorette connected ABC’s beloved reality title series, which premieres Sunday.

“I conscionable consciousness for illustration it was nan correct point to do … show up moreover though it’s hard,” she explained.

The “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” characteristic besides explained that erstwhile she had nan opportunity to prima successful nan 22nd play of “The Bachelorette,” her “yes” was “immediate.”

“The only information I had is if I was capable to spot my children,” she told nan outlet. “So that was nan biggest mobility I had going into it.”

Paul divulged that she felt starring connected nan bid successful Los Angeles was her measurement of getting “out of my toxicity of a life successful Utah and bubble” and labelled it “the champion point [she] could person done.”

“There was a batch of reassurance successful who I am, you know, from each these men being conscionable benignant and gentle and gentlemen,” she shared pinch People.

“It benignant of brought retired my existent broadside of who I americium and honestly belief successful me, value, worthy … they made maine consciousness reassured successful that and reminded maine of that. It was a travel of besides that too.”

A root told nan outlet connected Monday that accumulation connected “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” has been halted amid an investigation into alleged home unit involving Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen.

“They are not filming,” nan publication reported connected Monday. “Taylor has immoderate beautiful superior worldly happening regarding her past, and they will spot what happens. Until that resolves, they are off.”

A Draper City, Utah Police Department spokesperson told People that “contact was made pinch progressive parties connected [Feb.] 24th and 25th” successful nan alleged incident, noting that accusations had been leveled “in some directions.”

The former on-again, off-again couple, who stock 1-year-old son, Ever, dated betwixt 2022 and 2024.

Paul allegedly threw a chair astatine Mortensen that alternatively deed her girl Indy, 8, during an alleged 2023 incident — however, she noted during a 2025 “Call Her Daddy” quality that charges “were each dropped” successful nan case.

The TV star, who shares Indy and boy Ocean, 5, pinch ex-husband Tate Paul, was arrested and charged pinch committee of home unit successful nan beingness of a child, misdemeanor assault, and criminal mischief astatine nan time.

Though the Season 4 finale of “SLOMW” revealed past week that Paul and Mortensen were together nan nighttime earlier she near to statesman filming connected “The Bachelorette,” she claimed successful nan “Call Her Daddy” question and reply that they had parted ways “for good.”

“We’ll spot that play retired [on Season 3 of ‘SLOMW’],” she said, adding that she was nan 1 who made “the last telephone to extremity it.”