“Secret Lives of Mormon Wives ”stops filming amid alleged home assault investigation involving Taylor Frankie Paul

Manufacturing on season 5 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wiveshas abruptly halted after police opened an investigation into an alleged home assault incident involving star Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen.

The Draper Metropolis Police Division confirmed in a press release to PEOPLE on Monday {that a} "home assault investigation" has been opened into the allegations, which "have been made in each instructions." Officers had been involved with the previous couple, who share son Ever, on Feb. 24 and 25. TMZ was first to report the information.

A supply near the matter tells Leisure Weekly that cameras weren’t rolling when the incident came about, and that Paul's youngsters weren’t current.

A spokesperson for the Draper Metropolis P.D. stated in a press release to EW that the division doesn’t "launch particulars associated to lively investigations" with out "an instantaneous impression to public security."

"They don’t seem to be filming," sources near the sequence instructed PEOPLE, including that Paul "has some fairly severe stuff occurring relating to her previous, and they’re going to see what occurs. Till that resolves, they’re off."

Season 4 of the wildly common actuality sequence dropped on Hulu final week. Paul shares a son and a daughter together with her ex, Tate Paul, who has by no means appeared on Mormon Wives. She started relationship Mortensen, an actual property agent and the proprietor of a tiling firm, years earlier than the sequence premiere in September 2024. They had been on-and-off all through the sequence, leaving issues on unsure phrases on the finish of season 4.

EW has reached out to representatives for Paul, Mortensen, and Hulu for remark.

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Paul was chosen because the star of The Bacheloretteseason 22 in September. The premiere set for Sunday is extremely anticipated, in no small half due to Paul's admission on the latest season of Mormon Wives that she spent the evening earlier than day one among filming The Bachelorette with Mortensen.

A consultant for ABC didn’t instantly reply to EW's request for remark.

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Paul has been the topic of near-constant controversy since she based MomTok, the group of Mormon influencers whose lives Mormon Wives chronicles. She was arrested for alleged home violence in 2023 after an altercation with Mortensen, finally being charged with misdemeanor assault, prison mischief, and fee of home violence within the presence of a kid, after she allegedly threw a chair at Mortensen that as an alternative hit their daughter. Paul ultimately pleaded responsible in abeyance to aggravated assault, which implies that if she complies with the phrases of the plea, the cost will likely be dismissed. All different fees had been additionally dismissed.

In a September interview, she claimed she "by no means deliberately did something with my youngsters."

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