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Jessi Draper appeared on Wednesday’s episode of Alex Cooper‘s podcast, where she opened up about her messy split from Jordan Ngatikaura.
Days after Jordan filed for divorce following five years of marriage and two kids, son Jagger, 5, and daughter Jovi, 3, and shut down rumors of using Jessi’s money for escorts, the 33-year-old Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star confirmed the report while also discussing their fights, blackmail, and learning of Jordan’s filing from the media.
“I do have proof and screenshots that when season one dropped, I had an escort service reach out to me, and they sent me screenshots of his phone number and messages, and he was trying to meet up with them. He got a hotel room, and I have all of that,” Jessi shared on the March 25 episode of Call Her Daddy. “He denied it to me when I brought it to him. And he said, ‘We’re in Hollywood now, they’re gonna try to do this to tear us apart. It’s probably AI,’ but it wasn’t, it was real.”
According to Jessi, she was contacted again by someone in the service who showed her more proof of Jordan allegedly spending time with an escort in Texas years ago, prior to the show. She says the screenshots included Jordan’s phone number.
Jessie shared, “She sent the screenshots, and it’s his phone number. She wouldn’t have known his phone number. Like I literally have it… [It was] just the messages he had sent and his phone number being attached. Also, she said this happened while he was in Texas, and he was in Texas doing summer sales at the time. And this was before we filmed the show. So no one would’ve known that.”
And when it comes to more recent interactions, she admitted she wasn’t sure. Still, she added that a mutual friend suggested he’d seen Jordan at parties last month.
“I have to believe they are orgies, like sex parties. I dunno what other kind parties you would pay for,” Jessi explained.
As for whether Jordan used her money on the services he received from the escorts or the parties he attended, Jessi pointed out that, “When you’re married, everything’s both of yours.”
“As of the last three years, everything has been my money. Like, he does not work. I provide everything. And so if anything’s happened within the last three years, it has been my money for sure,” she noted.
After seeing the many congratulatory messages online in regard to her split, Jessi admitted the public response has been “validating.”
“I was a little bit in denial for a while,” she confessed. “[But] the last five years … we’ve fought every single day.”
Things between Jessi and Jordan got worse last year, following her emotional affair with Vanderpump Villa star Marciano Brunette, 33.
“He was blackmailing me with Marciano texts, and he had them on a draft on his phone, on TikTok. And anytime he was mad, he was like, ‘I’m gonna post them. I’m gonna ruin your life,'” Jessi recalled. “I shouldn’t have done what I did. I regret it so much. I just wanna make that so clear, like for my kids to like, have to hear about that one day. I wanna take full responsibility. But I will say that, like, having your partner blackmail you in that way, it was something I can, I could never get over.”
“That was honestly like something that really ruined us … it was traumatizing,” she added.
Moving on to Jordan’s divorce filing, Jessi said she learned of the move via a text from TMZ.
“I did end it with him, so I knew it was coming, but we had made an agreement to do it together, and he blindsided me and filed because he wanted the headline first,” she explained. “I told him on Friday the 13th, not long ago, and I said I wanted [a] divorce. He definitely didn’t want it, and now he’s rushing to do it, which is strange.”
“My heart sunk because A, we agreed to tell our children together before filing, and we haven’t done that, including his daughter, who’s like 13 years old,” she continued. “I don’t [know] if he told her before, but we had made the agreement to like tell our kids together, and we didn’t. And luckily they’re young, but [it was] just kinda like a betrayal.”
Jessi also revealed that Jordan attempted to put a clause in their divorce that would restrict her from appearing on podcasts to discuss their split.