Mormon TikTok star breaks silence on swinging scandal that swept the internet

The Mormon mom who group nan net alight erstwhile she revealed she and her hubby were swingers has shared salacious caller specifications astir nan affair.

Taylor Frankie Paul's matrimony collapsed down successful 2022 aft she developed feelings and embarked connected an affair pinch 1 of her swinging partners - who was besides joined to 1 of her friends.

At nan time, Paul's prima was connected nan emergence arsenic portion of a group of 'MomTok' influencers connected TikTok. She and different glamorous Mormon moms often appeared successful each other's videos, creating dances and participating successful viral trends pinch 1 another.

Now, she's group to look successful a caller Hulu documentary: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives - and show each astir nan ungraded that she says 'broke nan internet.'

'MomTok was involved, and past — I conjecture nan nationalist benignant of thought everyone was swingers successful MomTok,' she told Fox News. 'People were dissecting.'

And speaking connected the Viall Files, Paul said location was ne'er a circumstantial speech which led to nan swinging. Instead, it started during a nighttime of drinking successful which her hubby and different suggested she and a female 'make out... it's hot.'

'I'd done that successful my younger years, it wasn't a large woody to me... we threw different statement and it was like, return disconnected your apparel and we'll do lingerie pictures together.

'It conscionable escalated.'

Paul recalls nan 2 couples would 'have intercourse successful nan aforesaid bed... nan girls kissing and nan husbands rubbing nan different wives.'

At this point, it was conscionable she, her hubby and different couple, but complete clip it expanded to see a 3rd couple. 

'I don't cognize really you cognize but you tin benignant of gauge who is in.' 

Paul said her then-husband was nan first personification to propulsion nan pin, because he became concerned astir 1 of nan women falling pregnant and not knowing who nan begetter was.

'My hubby is like, possibly we should extremity doing this pinch our champion friends and possibly we could do this pinch strangers... I wasn't connected board.' 

In spite of nan saga - and nan retribution from Latter Day Saints who opportunity location are 'gross misrepresentations' of nan religion - Paul insists she has each correct to still place arsenic Mormon.

'I spell to church, and my boy is going to beryllium blessed present soon. It’s really nobody’s spot to show maine that I can’t spell to religion because I sin. It’s thing betwixt nan religion and me,' she said. 

Paul revealed successful a 2022 livestream video that she and her then-husband, Tate, had agreed to person aggregate partners arsenic portion of a 'soft swinging' group pinch different joined Mormon couples, implicating immoderate of nan women who often featured successful her videos.

Paul and her hubby had an statement they 'wouldn't spell each nan way' pinch different partners, but she collapsed that statement pinch 1 of nan different husbands who she had developed feelings for, yet ending her marriage. 

Several of those women were adamant they weren't progressive and issued nationalist statements, while others stayed silent and refused to remark astatine all.

Several of nan cardinal players successful nan MomTok era person since claimed they were asked to look connected nan Hulu show, but turned it down.

The relationship betwixt respective of nan women and Paul disintegrated, and 1 of nan women, Miranda McWhorter, said she didn't want to look connected nan show successful an effort to debar having to interact pinch Paul.

'Yes we said we would see it if she wasn't connected nan show, and we did. We knew we weren't going to find retired successful nan foreseeable future, and we still made nan decision, for our families and ourselves, because it didn't consciousness for illustration nan correct fit,' she said. 

At nan time, it was unclear whether Paul could look connected nan show arsenic she was facing charges of aggravated assault, home unit successful nan beingness of a kid and kid abuse.

She took a plea woody for nan aggravated assault, and nan different charges were dismissed pinch prejudice. 

McWhorter shared a matter speech betwixt herself, Camille Munday and their manager, who asked: 'Final thoughts connected Momtok show is that we're passing, right?'

Munday responded instantly saying: 'For me, yes I'm passing.'

McWhorter said she 'wished she could person made a decision' aft she knew whether aliases not Paul would beryllium appearing connected nan show, but acknowledged it's 'probably not bully for me' either way.

She added it was nary astonishment to anybody that she and Paul 'weren't bully astatine nan time' nan show began casting.

Since then, she said Paul's determination to rehash specifications of nan saga was nary much than an effort to beforehand nan show.

'Swinging fiasco? That's tea. This is called PR,' she said. 

Jessi Ngatikaura, who will look connected nan show, admitted it was 'hard to navigate' being online successful nan aftermath of nan scandal. 

'Everyone conscionable each of a abrupt throwing accusations astatine you because of misconceptions,' she said.

'There were a batch of group who didn't want thing to do pinch Taylor aliases MomTok anymore.'