Bonus Breaking News: Reality Steve on Taylor Frankie Paul, Dakota Mortensen & Jessi Draper Audio
After Reality with Courtney Robertson
Courtney Robertson
4.5 • 722 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Was Taylor Frankie Paul’s Bachelorette opportunity collateral damage in the fallout with Dakota Mortensen?
In this bonus breaking news episode of After Reality, I’m diving into the latest legal turmoil and personal drama surrounding Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen — from the leaked audio involving Jessi Draper to the outcome of yesterday’s court hearing.
I’m joined by Reality Steve to break down the latest court update, including the three-year mutual protective order issued to keep Taylor and Dakota separated. But the bigger question is: can these two actually quit each other — and what could all of this mean for Taylor’s future on reality TV?
Beyond the headlines, TikToks, leaked audio, and reality TV speculation, this conversation is really about what happens when a relationship becomes toxic — and why the safety and well-being of their young son has to come first.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to After Reality. It's your host, Courtney, here. Happy Friday, TGIF. What a week it's been. |
| 0:07.6 | Also, it's May 1st. Happy May Day. Get out there and strike if you need to. Also, today marks |
| 0:14.2 | Mental Health Awareness Month. And wow, so much surrounding Taylor, Frankie, Paul this week. I've got a bonus episode for you today because there has been a lot of breaking news surrounding The Bachelorette, Taylor Frankie Paul. And honestly, I don't even know where to start. So we're just going to jump right in and hopefully I can bake this cake nicely for you before I run out and buy a cake for my son Gabriel. He turned two this week. |
| 0:40.2 | And so everything surrounding this story hits very close to home for me. But before we get into it, |
| 0:46.7 | thank you all so much for the love on my latest episode with Alana Noelle. She's back. |
| 0:51.7 | Go check out a recipe for crazy. And don't shoot the messenger, but we did cover a lot of Bachelor Nation topics that people |
| 0:58.5 | have been asking about for years like Rachel Reckia and Gabby Wendy. |
| 1:03.6 | And so go give that a listen if you haven't had a chance. |
| 1:06.9 | We hit the top charge. |
| 1:08.6 | Not going to lie, it felt pretty good so um also i just finished |
| 1:13.4 | the finale a million dollar secret on netflix and in my opinion it's one of the best |
| 1:19.2 | reality tv competition shows so stay tuned because i'm going to be interviewing some of your |
| 1:25.3 | favorites from that and more on that another time because i did interview somebody from it and it's not going to see the some of your favorites from that and more on that another time because |
| 1:28.3 | I did interview somebody from it and it's not going to see the light of day. It was a very |
| 1:32.8 | difficult interview. All right. Let's just get into this. Taylor Frankie Paul was in court |
| 1:37.4 | yesterday with Dakota and I watched it. I live streamed it. I, Steve, reality Steve, my friend, |
| 1:43.3 | was also streaming it with Rachel |
| 1:45.0 | Juarez. And I'm going to play a few clips from that and walk you through what really |
| 1:51.0 | stood out to me. And then in breaking news, Jesse Draper from the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives |
| 1:57.1 | had a voice note leaked today to TMZ. I'm going to play that for you as well. |
| 2:04.1 | It's one she sent to Coda. Ouch. I love sending voice notes. You know, I just had Stephanie |
| 2:10.6 | Parker on. We voice note each other all the time. But man, I wouldn't want them getting leaked to |
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