Breaking News: Bachelorette In Hot Water MORE Bad News
The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
3.8 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Ashley has all the latest updates on the developing situation with Taylor Frankie Paul and the allegations of a violent dispute with ex Dakota Mortensen.
Ashley breaks down the different “versions” of what happened, and shares her theories of how this will affect the upcoming season of The Bachelorette, set to premiere in just a few days!
Disclaimer: This episode does discuss domestic violence. Listeners proceed with caution.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey, guys, I just want to give you a quick disclaimer before we get into this episode. |
| 0:08.2 | The topic of domestic abuse will be spoken about a lot. |
| 0:12.5 | So I just wanted to give you that warning. |
| 0:14.7 | This is the Ben and Ashley I, almost famous podcast with IHeartRadio. |
| 0:20.3 | Oh, hi, friends. |
| 0:22.1 | We have a breaking news episode on the Taylor Frankie Paul News. |
| 0:26.6 | It's not good news right now. |
| 0:29.1 | So we talked in our last episode with Trista and Deanna right after, before the final |
| 0:35.8 | rose, the special aired on Sunday night that there was newsbreaking |
| 0:39.5 | about a domestic violence situation involving Taylor and her ex-bate, well, her baby daddy, her ex, |
| 0:46.7 | Dakota. The Mormon wives filming has been paused. And since then, we have received a lot of information. |
| 0:58.0 | A lot of this is coming from TMZ. |
| 1:00.5 | But this is a big situation. |
| 1:02.8 | And it's a very upsetting, disappointing situation. |
| 1:06.3 | It's involving domestic violence. |
| 1:09.8 | As we know, Taylor does have a past in this she was arrested |
| 1:16.6 | for domestic violence against dakota a couple years ago she's talked about it's been a |
| 1:20.8 | topic on secret lives and now it seems like it is it has happened again about three weeks ago. |
| 1:31.5 | And we don't know the truth. |
| 1:34.8 | So here we are just kind of regurgitating what we're hearing from different outlets. |
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