Inside Taylor and Dakota's Volatile Relationship
The Brett Cooper Show
Brett Cooper
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, you guys, the drama that has been going on between Taylor Frankie Paul from Secret Wives of Mormon Lives and her baby daddy ex-boyfriend Dakota has been nonstop since we talked about it last month. |
| 0:11.4 | I mean, like every day they are making headlines, leaking information about each other, leaking images. |
| 0:16.0 | Taylor is posting cryptic things on social media, then deactivating her accounts, then reactivating. |
| 0:20.6 | Like, it is all just insane. And they are choosing to do it in front of the entire world instead of stepping back to focus on their kids. And now, to top it all off, she is allegedly jumping back in with the winner of her un-aired season of The Bachelorette. And I still think, I still think, that ABC and Disney should have known better from the start. |
| 0:37.7 | And as a mother, she also should have known better. So as you guys probably remember, since the last time that we talked about Ms. Taylor-Frank-Paul, the Bachelorette decided to pull her upcoming season of the show. And the main reason for this was because a video of her 2023 domestic violence incident with Dakota was leaked to TMZ, causing the internet and her and Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and The Bachelorette to just go up in flames and the Bachelorette decided to cancel the season. Now, as I talked about before, I still called BS on all of that because the Bachelor franchise, the Walt Disney company, ABC, they all knew about this 2023 incident. Now they might not have had the video, but they knew what had happened. It was a huge part of the plot in the first season of Secret Wives and Mormon Wives. They knew what they were getting into. And they still chose to cast her to lead this season of the Bachelorette. And so pretending like this was some big shock that they needed to process and needed, you know, to take the moral high ground that this now was enough to pull her off the air. |
| 1:27.9 | It is just ridiculous because you all knew. In fact, they literally cast her as the Bachelorette |
| 1:32.2 | because she was so controversial because she was so viral. They thought that she would breathe |
| 1:36.1 | new life and new attention into the franchise. And so it is so ridiculous and honestly dishonest |
| 1:40.9 | for them to act like this is all so shocked to surprise that this domestic violence incident was actually, yes, domestic violence. And remember, guys, as all of this was happening, as the 2023 video was coming out, she and Dakota were dealing with another incident from February. So I think that this is the second or third domestic violence incident that we know about between the two of them. Again, this took place after she had finished filming the Bachelorette. This was right before it was supposed to premiere. And then last month, back in March, they were both court mandated to undergo a psych evaluation after that incident happened. Dakota apparently alleged that she choked and scratched him. Taylor alleged that he slammed her head against the console. And so that, now in combination with the 2023 video and everything going on with The Bachelorette, |
| 2:18.6 | that also caused ABC and Hulu to pause filming on the current season of the Secret Wives and Mormon Lives that they were working on. And so now I think you guys are all caught up. Now after all of that came out and the dust started to settle, Taylor finally spoke out and she has continuously said over the past month that there is more to the story and that the videos and the photos, the police reports that they do not paint the full picture about her and Dakota and their relationship. So she said there is more context to everything and it is unfortunate, she told us. It has been hard and it sucks to be in this position. And the mother that I am, that is something that I will always stand my ground on. I believe that I am a good mother and I have always treated my kids very well. |
| 2:52.6 | So the headlines that are out right now are very hard to see because that's not the truth of it. I have always treated my children with respect and I've never touched them. So it has been really hard. And so from Taylor's point of view, in regards to the 23 incident that now everybody is talking about, she was saying that Dakota had pushed her into the garage and locked her in, |
| 3:08.9 | and we only saw what happened Dakota had pushed her into the |
| 3:07.5 | garage and locked her in and we only saw what happened after she got back into the house and |
| 3:11.5 | then was retaliating against him. And my thoughts are that I fully believe that both of them were |
| 3:16.6 | going at it, that they were both doing things to each other. I doubt that she was the only |
| 3:19.9 | unstable one in this relationship, but this was still domestic violence. Like we we saw the video, and she still did throw a chair that hit her child, and when Dakota brought that up, she said, I don't care. Like, we all saw that on video. So while, yes, you might have been in a toxic, unstable relationship, you might not be the only toxic and unstable one. You did, based on what the world just saw in that leaked video, |
| 3:59.3 | touch your child, just saying. And that is what the public and all of the headlines are reacting to. We're not just pulling this out of our asses. It's not a rumor. We literally watched it happen on camera. Anyway, that is what she has been saying after all of this. Now, since then, Dakota reportedly received temporary sole custody of the son that they share, while Taylor is restricted to supervise visits for a short period of time. |
| 4:01.5 | And now it has come |
| 4:00.1 | out that this week in court actually I think maybe today both of them are set to |
| 4:03.7 | seek protective orders against each other like all of the headlines are saying |
| 4:06.5 | that they are dueling protective orders against each other in addition to that |
| 4:09.8 | photos from their domestic violence injuries from the incident in February came out |
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