304: Layla from Momtok Spills All about S3 of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
Pop Apologists
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
(00:00:00) – Layla Joins the Show: Season 3 reactions, Jessie confrontation setup, and Marciano bombshell fallout.
(00:05:12) – The Kiss, the Cialis & the Lie Detector: Jessie’s texts, Jordan overhearing everything, and why Marciano’s Botox face wasn’t giving anything away.
(00:10:24) – Demi vs. The Villa Timeline: The accusations, the confusion, the face-times, and why the girls felt emotionally manipulated.
(00:15:36) – Is There a Layla & Demi Friendship Left?: Layla breaks down boundaries, cordial coexistence, and the moment she stopped believing Demi’s version.
(00:26:00) – Whitney and Layla on Dancing With the Stars: How Whitney’s season arc shifted, why she ran to St. George, and where friendships stand now.
(00:31:12) – Filming Logistics & The Reality of MomTok Fame: Five-day shooting weeks, who films the most, why kids stay off camera, and protecting boundaries.
(00:36:24) – The Mormon Community, Image Management & Garments Era: Initial backlash, cultural shifts, and how converting helped Layla during a dark chapter.
(00:41:36) – Hair Journeys, Identity & Reclaiming Self-Image: Layla’s switch to a new hairstylist, the emotional weight of fitting in, and the sweetest glow-up.
(00:46:48) – Sex, Orgasm Taboo & Mormon Girlhood: Vibrators, sexual shame, becoming orgasmic, and the DMs that poured in after Layla opened up.
(00:52:00) – Taylor, Dakota & the Endless Loop: Did Dakota hook up with a “friend”? Did he hook up with Leanne? (No.) Their impossible chemistry examined.
(00:56:12) – Post-Interview Chat: Lauren and Chanler grace us with their presence and chat about the weekly topics.
(01:10:50) – BravoCon Energy & The Return of Flipping Out: Jeff Lewis is coming back, Chandler battles loyalty to Heather McDonald, and the girls debate the greatest shows on Bravo.
(01:14:50) – Wendy Williams: Conservatorship, Not Dementia: The reveal that Wendy doesn’t have dementia, $200k Uber Eats bill, and how banks flag erratic spending.
(01:20:00) – The Tina Brown Era Returns: Why Tina is core to Pop Apologists history, her NYT interview, and why they’re obsessed.
(01:26:00) – Queen Elizabeth Shielding Prince Andrew: How the late Queen’s loyalty shielded Andrew, creating an environment where he stayed safely tucked behind palace walls even as pressure mounted.
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| 0:20.6 | Well, well, well, we are joined today by the one and only Layla from the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives hit show. |
| 0:32.6 | Season three is out. |
| 0:34.5 | It is. |
| 0:35.1 | Can you even believe it? |
| 0:36.1 | She's here in the flesh, ready to spill, ready to talk about it all. |
| 0:40.0 | Thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. Oh, my gosh. Well, we're so happy you're here because we were able to devour the season early, which felt like so VIP and so fun for us. I love it. And we have so many questions about all the drama, everything that went down. |
| 0:56.2 | So I would love if we could to like die. I love it. And we have so many questions about all the drama, everything that went down. |
| 0:56.2 | So I would love if we could to like dive into the plot line and stuff that happened. |
| 1:02.1 | Make sure we get through these questions. |
| 1:04.7 | My first one is I want to go to the moment towards the beginning of the season. |
| 1:09.5 | It might have been the first episode where you get in the car and you're confronting Jesse. |
| 1:14.0 | Yep. |
| 1:14.8 | How nervous were you for that confrontation? |
| 1:17.7 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:18.3 | So nervous. |
| 1:19.1 | I was sick to my stomach from the second I found out about it with Marciano. |
| 1:23.4 | It wasn't like something that I was like stoked to tell Jesse about, obviously, because I knew knew what could come from it I knew that like her marriage could be at stake people would possibly like you know give her hate and her business could be affected like I was just thinking like the long term effects of it I've dealt with like my parents cheating on each other growing up and like I know how that can affect your children too so I was like Jovi and and Jagger. Like I was just thinking of every situation possible and it sucked a lot. I feel like people, I've seen like things online already of people being like, why would Layla even like bring this out? Like why was she sticking her nose where it doesn't belong? First of all, I had no idea he was even going to say anything about Jesse. Yeah. I truly thought that he was going to like say something's about to me, honestly, at that point, I feel like everyone wanted to know more details. I had no idea it was going to |
| 2:05.3 | be a Jesse situation. So it was hard. It was a really hard conversation to have. I think it speaks |
| 2:09.5 | to how great Jesse is. We've had Jessie on the show. She's absolutely lovely. She handled it so |
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