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Shocking video of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul‘s wild 2023 fight with Dakota Mortensen has leaked.
In the clip, it clearly shows that one of her children was hit with a barstool during the fight.
TMZ shared the disturbing footage, which begins with Taylor repeatedly striking Dakota.
“Physical abuse,” Dakota exclaims as Taylor has her hands on him.
“See, Taylor, this is all you do,” he continues, as her hands remain on him. “It’s the only thing you know how to do is hurt me. Hon, you think this is okay? It’s not okay.”
A shocking video has surfaced showing Taylor Frankie Paul hitting, kicking and throwing a stool at her ex Dakota with her daughter in the room.
She then starts insisting she doesn’t “give a f—” if it’s okay, and she attempts to kick Dakota, as he begs her to let him go and leave him alone.
This then leads her to try to hit him again and then grab a barstool and chuck it at him, as her daughter is sitting nearby on a couch.
“Your daughter is right here,” Dakota says, as Taylor chucks a second barstool at him.
Her daughter is then heard crying, as Taylor shrieks, “You did this.” This leads to Dakota begging her to stop throwing things in front of her daughter and to stop screaming at him.
Her daughter continues to cry, as Dakota screams, “That is it! No more! You’re done. Please, stop.” He also insists he did nothing and that Taylor is “doing this” to herself.
As Taylor continues wailing, her daughter is heard, through tears, saying, “Mommy.”
“I’m done taking the blame for you,” Dakota tells her, as Taylor yells at him to “get the f— out.”
As Taylor keeps screaming that Dakota “did this,” he informs her that her “daughter just got hit in the head with a metal chair.” Taylor responds that’s because of Dakota, to which he replies, “No. You. Go and help your daughter, now! Help your daughter, Taylor.”
Dakota is then heard approaching Taylor’s daughter to ask if she’s okay, which leads to Taylor having another meltdown, screaming at him to “get away” from her daughter.
“Then help her,” he says. “Stop doing this… think of your kids.”
He also tells her he loves her kids “to death.”
“You’re not okay, and you’re drunk,” he then says, as the pair continues arguing.
Law enforcement then rings the doorbell, and Dakota tells them Taylor is “hammered.”
“And so is he,” Taylor insists, which Dakota denies.
“Been throwing stuff at me sober?” she adds. “You threw it at me.”
Law enforcement is then heard telling her to “stop” as the clip cuts out.
Taylor ended up pleading guilty in 2023 to aggravated assault for the incident and was placed on three years’ probation, which is up in August.
A representative for Taylor spoke out about the video, sharing, “It’s sad to see the latest installment of his never-ending, desperate, attention-seeking, destructive campaign to harm Taylor without any regard for the consequences for their child. Releasing an old and selectively edited video on their son’s birthday is a reprehensible attempt to distract from his own behavior.”
“Thankfully, the public has seen this act before and knows who he is and sadly, many will recognize this pattern of manipulation, both in his actions on the show and from their own experiences.”
Taylor has been under scrutiny lately after an incident took place between her and Dakota that caused filming on SLOMW to be paused. Both sides have their own tale of what happened, but whatever the case is, it doesn’t sound good either way, especially with this on the cusp of Taylor’s premiere on The Bachelorette Sunday night.