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Taylor Frankie Paul claims to be on a healing journey amid her ongoing custody battles with her exes, Tate Paul and Dakota Mortensen, but it didn’t look that way earlier this week when she enjoyed a night in with several young men.
After claiming she was taking a break from men following recent relationships with Dakota, 33, Doug Mason, 29, and Ben Lambert, the 32-year-old Secret Lives of Mormon Wives alum was seen in a photo with several men, one of whom poked fun at one of her domestic violence incidents with Dakota.
“Off to LA … I’m gonna act like I’m on time too, in fact early,” Taylor wrote in the caption of an Instagram Story on Sunday.
Then, after missing her flight, she shared a photo of herself in someone’s kitchen, along with a caption that said, “missed flight lead to spooky night.”
When a Reddit user shared the image of Taylor and the men and pointed out that they “thought [she] had sworn off men,” a number of others weighed in.
“I get her whole shtick has always been rage bait, but this is disappointing,” one person said.
Others accused Taylor of “[loving] the attention they give her” and being a “pick me.”
“She will always gravitate to men,” someone suspected.
“I think it’s interesting that she doesn’t see that this isn’t the flex she thinks it is in the current zeitgeist,” shared another Reddit user. “No one wants to watch a woman with a pathological need for male attention and validation endlessly pursue it at the cost of her children.”
Adding to the backlash was the fact that one of the men Taylor was with poked fun at a 2023 encounter between Taylor and Dakota, during which her daughter Indy, 9, was reportedly injured when she threw a chair.
“Pumpkin carving 2026. Thanks for coming [Taylor Frankie Paul]!!” a man named Sam wrote with another group photo, shockingly adding, “(We hid all the chairs before she came don’t worry).”
After the post was shared, Steph With the Deets was openly critical of Taylor’s hangout, and a number of her followers agreed that it wasn’t a good look.
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“Imagine being an ‘advocate’ for mental health and causing your kids trauma and suffering while you ‘heal,'” one commenter wrote in response to the video.
“This [is] her focusing on herself,” said another.
Then, as a number of people described Taylor as “male centered af,” another person asked, “She’s the only woman? So odd.”