Premiering this week, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives follows a sisterhood of Mormon women struggling to rebound from a intercourse scandal that rocked the group to its core. As they try to find a path forward, moreover they face new drama with the lads of their lives and each other, with cameras catching the entire fireworks.

Paul uncovered the intercourse scandal on the center of the current once more in Could 2022 when she launched her then-husband Tate Paul was divorcing her. On the time, she claimed the pair have been part of a “smooth swinging” neighborhood — which suggests they could stop wanting having penetrative intercourse with completely different people.   The affiliation went bitter, nonetheless, after she claimed to have gone too far with one other individual of their neighborhood … and some occasions involved “developed emotions.”

Not one of many completely different women throughout the Hulu current’s strong have been instantly tied to the scandal, though Demi Engemann acknowledged she was at occasions the place her husband obtained weird “vibes” and specified they don’t share. Engemann moreover claimed Paul suggested them she “positively thought we’d be enjoyable to swing with,” sooner than accusing her of being “further flirty” collectively together with her husband at one among many occasions.

When TooFab caught up with Paul, alongside costar Jessi Ngatikaura, sooner than the premiere, we questioned whether or not or not she wished others who’ve been linked to the swinging controversy spoke up when it occurred … or have been part of the current collectively together with her.

“Yeah. I am really glad you have requested this since you’re the primary individual to ask me this. Sure, completely,” she suggested TooFab. “It is unlucky as a result of they’re popping out after the very fact of the present being filmed. I felt like out of respect to them, I do not consider I used any names of individuals concerned. I used to be very respectful, like, I may have got here out and absolutely stated it, you understand?”

“However when the trailer was launched, there’s podcasts being made, there’s folks popping out now and it is simply, like–” she added, sooner than Jessi interjected, “Injury management.”

“They’re simply nervous,” Paul continued. “And I am like, the place was all this when you would have–? and who’s to say I even talked about you on the present anyhow?”

In newest weeks, MomTok alums Miranda McWhorter and Camille Munday — who’ve been every instantly linked to the scandal nevertheless denied being swingers — have been launched once more into the spotlight after Munday did a podcast interview. Whereas speaking with Weekly Trash, she claimed every she and Camille have been requested to be part of the Hulu current, nevertheless turned it down.

“For our lives, it did not really feel proper in any respect,” she acknowledged, together with that “it by no means made me really feel good,” and expressing concerns about her family.

Paul then hopped onto her private TikTok and claimed the women really turned down the current because of they refused to be on a set collectively together with her. That led to McWhorter sharing textual content material receipts exhibiting they’ve been concerned about Paul’s assault case, lastly turning down the current sooner than realizing the choice in her case. Chase moreover took to his private TikTok to defend his ex, calling Paul’s claims a “fairly apparent try at garnering some clicks and views for the upcoming present.”

Paul then hit once more as soon as extra, saying the receipts solely proved her stage, together with that her intention wasn’t additional PR nevertheless the additional consideration wasn’t “hurting us both.”

“They’re in all probability doing a disservice to themselves,” she suggested TooFab, sooner than together with, “and I would not be stunned in the event that they got here out and tried for Season 2, if we obtained one.”

The swinging scandal would probably not problem into this full first season that so much earlier the first episode. For Paul, her storyline primarily revolves around her typically dangerous relationship with Dakota Mortensen.

On the time of filming, Paul was pregnant with the couple’s first teen collectively, following a house violence arrest for Paul in February 2023. Whereas she was initially charged with two felony counts of dwelling violence throughout the presence of a child, one felony rely of aggravated assault, and one misdemeanor rely of child abuse and jail mischief, she lastly accepted a plea deal, which found her pleading accountable to no less than one rely of aggravated assault; the alternative costs have been dismissed.

All by way of the season, the two normally battle with each other, as perception factors and self-sabotage threaten to tear them apart. At elements, her costars identify the connection “poisonous,” her private mom and father seem to take problem with their romance, and Dakota has to apologize for “overreacting” all through one among their additional explosive arguments.

“I believe he had intention of being like a great boyfriend and protecting and I believe it may come off utterly completely different and he is nervous for a way he is gonna come off ‘trigger he is such a real good man on the finish of the day,” Paul suggested TooFab of how Mortensen is feeling ahead of the premiere.

Her man shouldn’t be the one completely different half who received’t come off making an attempt the perfect when the current drops, as Paul acknowledged, “I can not converse for the opposite guys, however there have been some issues I am positive you noticed in there that they could remorse doing on TV.”

“However what number of occasions do you get to look at the errors again, you understand?” added Jessi. “So hopefully they will take it and develop. However there are some husbands and boyfriends which can be in all probability gonna be cringe-watching it.”

As for Paul herself, she hopes getting the current on the market helps followers see deeper than “simply the headlines that you just hear” about her — though she admits she wasn’t virtually as present with the alternative women of #MomTok as she would have most popular.

“I wish– I wished to be current with extra of my women. As a result of I really feel like I used to be so distracted — clearly one, like, household and my relationship — that I wasn’t current right here and capable of, like, converse my thoughts with #MomTok,” she shared. “And that is the purpose of the present and I simply sat again and watched all of it like, what within the heck?”

“I’ve an opinion and I did not say an entire lot there. And I believe if I would return, I’d do this in a different way,” she added.

Fingers crossed for Season 2!

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives drops Friday on Hulu.