Two days before footage of her altercation with ex Dakota Mortenson surfaced, Taylor Frankie Paul pleaded with her to stop seeing him.
“Taylor Frankie Paul, this is a message for you: stop looking at that guy,” TikTok star Max Balegade said in a tiktok video Shared on Tuesday.
He also mourned the “wokeness”[ing] Until it came to light in real time that the former couple were still “living each other’s bloody life.”
He continued, “Taylor, please listen to me when I tell you that you don’t need this guy. Frankly, you don’t need each other. You’re horrible to each other. There’s a lot going for you, Taylor, Frankie Paul! Your career is on the rise.”
“Please see the light my queen, you are better than this,” he captioned the recent clip.
In the comment thread, the “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star simply replied, “Heard.”
News broke on Monday that Paul and Mortensen were allegedly involved in another domestic violence incident last month. A source for People also claimed that filming on “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” has been halted amid the drama.
A spokesperson for the Draper City Police Department said that “charges have been filed in both directions.”
Paul addressed the latest alleged incident in an interview with People on Tuesday.
“Honestly, like, my heart hurts seeing it, going through it, especially right now,” she told the outlet.
“Just the timing is hard, and that’s a big thing. I feel like every premiere I’ve experienced, I’ve never enjoyed it to its fullest, so this is another one… It’s extremely hard, and I had to do everything I could to get here today.”
Meanwhile, a source for Mortensen released a statement to Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday, saying that his “number one priority here is protection.” [their 2-year-old son]Sometimes.”
She added, “He knew there was a possibility it could come up, but he wasn’t one to actively do it because he always wanted a decent relationship with Taylor. It’s been really hard to achieve, but he wants to co-parent well.”
Paul was arrested after a 2023 incident and charged with misdemeanor battery, domestic violence in the presence of a child, and criminal mischief, although he later said during a 2025 “Call Her Daddy” appearance that all charges were dropped following a plea agreement.
On Thursday, the drama reached its peak when footage of the 2023 encounter was obtained and shared by TMZ. In the video, Paul was seen attempting to kick Mortenson before throwing a metal barstool in his direction.
Their daughter Indi, who was 5 at the time, could be heard crying in the background after being hit by a stool.
“It’s sad to see the latest installment of his never-ending, desperate, attention-seeking, destructive campaign to harm Taylor without regard for the consequences to her child,” a representative for Paul told People on Thursday after the footage was released.
“Releasing an old video on his son’s birthday, which conveniently omits context, is a reprehensible attempt to distract from his own behavior. Thankfully, the public has seen this act before and knows who he is and sadly, many will recognize this pattern of manipulation from his actions on the show and from their own experiences.”
Paul was set to star in season 22 of “The Bachelorette,” but a Disney Entertainment spokesperson told Page Six on Thursday — hours after the video was released — that, “In light of the newly released video that surfaced today, we have made the decision not to move forward with a new season of ‘The Bachelorette’ at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family.”
The reality star’s on-again, off-again relationship with Mortensen began in 2022 following her divorce from ex-husband, Tate Paul, with whom she shares Indie, now 8, and son Ocean, 5.
She later welcomed son Ever with Mortenson in March 2024.