Miranda McWhorter on Where She and Taylor Stand After Reliving the Mormon Swinger Drama (EXCLUSIVE)

If you were anywhere near the internet in 2022, you likely remember hearing something about the drama on Mormon MomTok. The key player was an influencer named Taylor Frankie Paul, who had no problem spilling a ton of tea on TikTok. In the time since the scandal first made waves, there's been more drama popping up. Not only that, but Hulu apparently decided to get a slice of this Mormon swinger TikTok cake.

In September 2024, the streamer debuted The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. The show gave Taylor a larger platform to discuss her side of the swinging scandal. It didn't take long before producers called her former best friend, Miranda McWhorter, who was also involved in the scandal with her estranged husband, Chase McWhorter.

Miranda spoke to Distractify about where she and Taylor stand and how she healed past the swinging scandal drama.

After years of going back and forth on TikTok, Miranda and Taylor faced each other again when Miranda was selected for Season 2 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. The reunion didn't start off well, as Taylor discussed the swinging scandal even further in Season 2, episode 3.

"We did have sex in the shower with our husbands altogether," she confessed. "We also had sex in the same bed and at the same time. We would blindfold each other, and you would have to guess which husband you were kissing."

"We also had a night where it was just four husbands and [Miranda] and me," Taylor continued. "They asked us to go get in short shorts, so we did. And then we came down and we were so drunk we were making out and we were on top of each other and they all filmed it on their phones."

The influencer also claimed Miranda's husband, Chase, told her he was in love with her after she told him she had a "sex dream" about him. Miranda didn't deny Taylor's claims on the show, stating, "Ummm ... I mean, Taylor's not wrong." The MomTok OG also told Distractify that while she didn't expect her former friend to spill all of their tea, she had become too unbothered by the scandal to care about new details getting out.

"Taylor and I had had so many conversations about it, you know, conversations between Taylor and I, conversations between the girls and I that, I think, I don't want to say like that, I'm desensitized to it, but I think that I've done a lot of healing and processing, and I've come to terms with and accepted that it's just part of my past, and it's led me to where I am now and who I am now."

The drama between Taylor and Miranda began back in 2022. Taylor, who was well-known on Mormon MomTok, announced that she and her husband, Tate, were getting divorced following their foray into "soft swinging" among their group of friends. According to Taylor, "soft swinging" meant that no one went "all the way" unless the other spouses were all present.

But Taylor admitted to her followers that she'd broken these rules with one of the husbands in her swinging friend group. She said she'd been drunk at the time, but she also admitted to falling for the other husband, which she says led to her being iced out of their friend group. Taylor felt this was unfair, especially when other folks in their group allegedly caught feelings for other spouses, too, but she said she remained friendly with Tate. She also said the swinging drama wasn't the sole reason for their split.

Naturally, online sleuths tried to figure out who the other players in this drama could be, which led to several Mormon MomTokers posting videos to insist that they were not part of this drama. This included Miranda McWhorter, Camille Munday, Mayci Neeley, Whitney Leavitt, and Victoria Zalic. Taylor then seemed to hang up the towel in June 2022, telling her followers that she was done with sharing this story.

Fast-forward to 2023, and Taylor was charged with domestic violence against her boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, whom she reportedly began seeing in August 2022. Taylor was accused of "aggravated assault, two counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child, child abuse with injury and criminal mischief," per the New York Post.

Taylor pled guilty to the aggravated assault while the other charges were dismissed. Per court docs, Dakota had accused Taylor of throwing a wooden play set and some metal chairs at him, when one of the chairs allegedly hit one of Taylor's kids, who'd been seated on the couch next to Dakota.

Then, in July 2024, it was announced that Hulu was planning to release a reality docuseries — starring Taylor, Demi Engemann, Jennifer Affleck, Jessi Ngatikaura, Layla Taylor, Mikayla Mathews, Mayci Neeley, and Whitney Leavitt — that would cover all of the Mormon MomTok drama. After a successful first season, the show was picked up for a second season, this time with Miranda on board. Miranda told us the show became the vehicle for her and Taylor to finally put their drama aside.

"We have come so far, as far as our communication goes and I feel like we've healed so much for each other and individually and in those conversations that we've had," she said of her castmate and former BFF. "and I never thought that I would say that, you know, Taylor is a good friend of mine again, but once again, I think that all in all, at the end of the day, I'm very grateful for that, because it was, you know, as unexpected as that was, maybe for viewers, it was even more unexpected for me."

Stream The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on Hulu.