{"id":21235,"date":"2026-03-22T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21235"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:54:12","slug":"mormon-wife-star-cancelled-as-bachelorette-by-abc-amid-abuse-video-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21235","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Wife\u2019 Star Cancelled As \u2018Bachelorette\u2019 By ABC Amid Abuse Video Controversy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"305\">ABC has canceled Taylor Frankie Paul\u2019s season of <em data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"67\">The Bachelorette<\/em> just three days before its March 22 premiere, PEOPLE confirms. A Disney spokesperson said the decision came after a newly surfaced 2023 video showing Paul allegedly throwing chairs at her ex, Dakota Mortensen, while a child was nearby.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"307\" data-end=\"577\">Paul and Mortensen dated in 2022, share a 2-year-old son, Ever, and she has two other children from a previous marriage. The couple split in 2022, and filming for season 5 of <em data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"516\">The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives<\/em> was paused due to \u201cserious issues\u201d related to Paul\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"851\">The Draper City Police confirmed an ongoing domestic assault investigation involving both parties. In 2023, Paul faced misdemeanor domestic violence charges, including child abuse after a chair allegedly struck her daughter. Paul has said the charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"853\" data-end=\"1098\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Court documents and the video show the daughter was hit by a chair during an incident. Paul\u2019s spokesperson called the video release a \u201creprehensible attempt\u201d by Mortensen to manipulate public perception while disregarding the child\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P7epTSn6CDk?si=_SsiFCQ_r__7WTN5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC has canceled Taylor Frankie Paul\u2019s season of The Bachelorette just three days before its March 22 premiere, PEOPLE confirms. A Disney spokesperson said the decision came after a newly surfaced 2023 video showing Paul allegedly throwing chairs at her ex, Dakota Mortensen, while a child was nearby. Paul and Mortensen dated in 2022, share&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21235\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Mormon Wife\u2019 Star Cancelled As \u2018Bachelorette\u2019 By ABC Amid Abuse Video Controversy!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21237,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions\/21237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}