Two days before footage of her altercation with ex Dakota Mortensen was released, Taylor Frankie Paul begged her to stop seeing him.
“Taylor Frankie Paul, this is a message to you: Stop looking at that guy,” TikTok star Max Balegde said in a TikTok video shared on Tuesday.
She also lamented how she “wakes up to headlines in real time” about how the former couple is still “living each other’s fat, bloody lives.”
Adding, “Taylor, hear me say we don’t need this guy. Let’s face it, you guys don’t need each other. You’re the worst for each other. There’s a lot to you, Taylor Frankie Paul! Your career is on a roll.”
“See the light, my queen, you’re better than this,” he captioned a recent clip.
In the comment thread, the “Secrets of a Mormon Wife” star simply responded, “I heard it.”
On Monday, news broke that Paul and Mortensen were allegedly involved in separate domestic violence incidents last month. People magazine sources also claimed that filming for the drama “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” was halted midway through the drama.
“The allegations go both ways,” a Draper Police Department spokesperson said.
Paul addressed the recent alleged incident in an interview with People on Tuesday.
“Honestly, it breaks my heart to see that, to go through that, especially during this time,” she told the media.
“Just the timing is difficult, and that’s a big deal. I feel like every premier I’ve been to, I’ve never fully enjoyed it. So this one too… it’s been very difficult and it took everything to get here today.”
Meanwhile, a source for Mortensen released a statement to Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday, saying, “Our number one priority here is protecting (2-year-old son) Ever.”
She added, “He knew this could lead to him coming out, but he didn’t actively intend to do so because he always wanted a decent relationship with Taylor. It was really hard to achieve that. But he wants to successfully co-parent.”
Paul was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault, domestic violence in the presence of a child, and criminal mischief after the incident in 2023, but he later said during his 2025 Call Her Daddy appearance that “all charges were dropped” as a result of a plea deal.
The drama came to a head Thursday when footage of the 2023 encounter was obtained and shared by TMZ. The video showed Paul attempting to kick Mortensen before throwing a metal bar stool at him.
Her daughter Indy, who was five years old at the time, appeared to have been hit by one of the chairs and could be heard crying in the background.
“It is sad to see the latest in his endless, desperate, high-profile, destructive campaign to harm Taylor without regard for the impact on her children,” Paul’s rep told People magazine on Thursday after the video was released.
“Releasing an old video, conveniently taken out of context, on my son’s birthday is a reprehensible attempt to distract from his own actions. Thankfully, the public has seen this behavior before and knows who he is, but sadly many will recognize this pattern of manipulation both from his actions on the show and from their own experiences.”
Paul was scheduled to appear on Season 22 of The Bachelorette, but a Disney Entertainment spokesperson told Page Six on Thursday, hours after the video was released, “In light of the video that was just released today, we have made the decision not to move forward with a new season of The Bachelorette at this time and are focused on supporting our 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 sons Indi, 8, and Ocean, 5.
Then, in March 2024, she and Mortensen welcomed a son, Ever.
