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Taylor Frankie Paul Admits to Cheating on Bachelorette's Doug Mason With Dakota Mortensen

Taylor Frankie Paul says the fallout from her reunion with Dakota Mortensen helped derail her unaired Bachelorette season and cut Mormon Wives to five episodes.

  • Upon returning from filming 'The Bachelorette' engaged to Doug Mason, Taylor Frankie Paul admitted to #MomTok friends that she began sleeping with her ex-partner Dakota Mortensen the night she arrived home.
  • A 2025 production pause followed highly publicized legal and custody battles involving domestic violence allegations between Paul and Mortensen, a timeline covered in The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 5.
  • Paul's engagement to Mason crumbled after filming concluded, while she simultaneously confessed romantic feelings for another man, Ben Lambert, during the season.
  • Following the scandal and domestic violence reports, ABC cancelled Paul's 'Bachelorette' season, which remains unaired, as the reality star ultimately ended her engagement to Mason post-production.
  • The Mormon Wives cast filmed the current season's interviews without Paul, leaving her future with the series uncertain as the show addresses the production fallout.
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Taylor Frankie Paul admits sleeping with ex while engaged to Doug Mason

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Taylor Frankie Paul Admits To Sleeping With Dakota While Engaged To Doug Mason, 'An Addiction'

Taylor Frankie Paul says Dakota Mortensen was the only person she had truly loved, but they were stuck in a toxic cycle even after she got engaged to Doug Mason.

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Taylor Frankie Paul Admits to Cheating on Bachelorette's Doug Mason With Dakota Mortensen

During Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season five, Taylor Frankie Paul revealed she got engaged to Doug Mason while filming The Bachelorette, but later cheated on him with Dakota Mortensen.

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'SLOMW' star Taylor Frankie Paul admits she's "not proud" of season 5 and agrees cringy bathtub scene with Ben was "so bad" as she offers an update and insists she's a work in progress

Taylor Frankie Paul offered an update on Instagram after the season five premiere of 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.'

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ELLE broke the news on Thursday, September 10, 2026.
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