‘Mormon Housewives’ star Zach Affleck has hit back at online criticism for his affair with co-star Whitney Leavitt, claiming that many of the season four storylines were staged.
“All the stories about Whitney letting us stay at her house are not true,” Zach said on a recent TikTok Live.
“But that’s no big deal. It’s not her fault. That was the storyline.”
“We’ve always had our own home,” he continued, noting that his wife, Jen Affleck, moved the family from Utah to Los Angeles to appear with Levitt on Season 34 of Dancing with the Stars.
“We arrived, unpacked the U-Haul for the cameras, then packed it up again and headed back to my house.”
Zack then addressed the intense battle between him and Levitt on the Season 4 finale of “SLOMW.” In the scene, the former friends showed up “in Jen’s place” and ambushed Leavitt after they were scheduled to meet and discuss issues that arose while competing against each other on “DWTS.”
According to Zack, he was “asked to do it by someone other than Jen on the day,” but admitted he was “in control of what I said” during the confrontation.
“There were a lot of conversations that weren’t included. But again, could we have been a little more calm, a little more calm? Probably.”
Zack specifically called Levitt a “mean bitch” and a “fake” during a heated exchange.
He made it clear that he is not yet a “Whitney fan” and understands why husband Connor Leavitt was furious at the way Whitney spoke, but insisted there was no “screaming and screaming.”
“There were a lot of emotions at that time, and that happened six months ago. There’s obviously bigger things going on in our group right now,” he said, apparently referring to Taylor Frankie Paul’s ongoing drama and Jesse Draper’s divorce.
“This is all part of reality TV. And I also think part of having social media is speaking your truth. And some people are going to hate you and some people are going to love you. And I’m okay with that.”
Page Six has reached out to SLOMW representatives and the Leavitts for comment.
Meanwhile, Whitney, who currently stars as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway, hinted earlier this month that she would be leaving the hit Hulu series.
“If it wasn’t for[SLOMW]I wouldn’t be where I am today,” Levitt told The Hollywood Reporter. “But I feel like it’s time to challenge myself in a different way and realize the dreams and passions I’ve been trying to reach even before the show.”
She also said, “I feel like that’s the trajectory going forward.”
