Whitney Levitt he plays coy about his future Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
“We're getting it in real time. I don't really know,” Whitney, 32, said about whether she'll return to the show on Wednesday, April 8, in an interview. Good Morning America. Sometimes I feel like it's time to go out.
Referring to her current time as Roxie Hart on Broadway's Chicagohe added, “Like this, this is what I'm passionate about.”
Whitney, 32, was part of the group Mormon wives played since its premiere in September 2024, alongside it Taylor Frankie Paul, Miss Neeley, Layla Taylor, Mikayla Matthews, Jesse Draper, Jen Affleck again Demi Engemann. Miranda Hope McWhorter joined the cast in the show's second season, while Demi bowed out in the recently released fourth season.
News broke in March that production on season 5 of the hit reality show was on hold as reports surfaced of a domestic dispute between Taylor, 31, and her ex. Dakota Mortensen33, last month.
The Draper City Police Department in Utah confirmed that Us Weekly that it has an open “domestic assault investigation” involving the two, with allegations “made on both sides.”
NBC News later reported that the Utah Police Department in West Jordan is also investigating a third domestic violence allegation involving the pair dating back to the 2024 incident.
Mikayla, 26, shared on Instagram that rest is the idea of the actors. “It was a decision that all of us girls agreed upon, we were not comfortable recording everything that was happening,” he said.
Jessi, 33, also commented on the production pause in a March interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “Me and the girls, we decided to stop filming when we found out about this because we were starting to hear things a little before they leaked,” she said. “We didn't want to record and say something wrong on camera, we don't know the issue yet. We didn't want to process all these details first and then talk about it. We just thought, for everyone's mental health, let's take a moment and not record right now.”
“We went to production and the network, and they were all very supportive, and they were like, 'We totally get it. You guys come first,'” Jessi added. “They handled it very well. Because of that, we all felt comfortable saying, 'You know what? This is our real life and if we want this game to continue to be successful, we have to handle it the right way.'
News of the production hiatus broke the same week as Taylor's season The Bachelorette will premiere on ABC. However, the network pulled the plug on season 22 of the reality dating competition after TMZ published video of a 2023 domestic incident involving Taylor and Dakota.
“Due to the newly released video that surfaced today, we have made the decision not to continue with the new season The Bachelorette at this time, and we are focused on supporting the family,” said a spokesperson for Disney Entertainment Television Us in a statement at the time.
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt shelved her chances of getting a spinoff after the scandal surrounding Taylor Frankie Paul. “What a feeling to know you all want a Leavitt spinoff,” Whitney, 32, tweeted on Monday, March 30, about herself and her husband Conner Leavitt. Hulu viewers were there […]
Taylor and Dakota have since been involved in various legal challenges, both filing temporary restraining orders against the other. Dakota's was granted in March, and Taylor's request for a temporary protective order was granted on Wednesday.
In March, Dakota was also granted temporary custody of their 2-year-old son, Ever. (Taylor also shares daughter Indy, 8, and son Ocean, 5, with ex-husband Father Paul.)
