Mormon Wives, Real Lives feat. Miranda Hope
The Southern Tea
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4.3 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this episode, we sit down with Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Miranda Hope for an unfiltered conversation about her journey from "MomTok" hobbyist to reality TV standout. Miranda opens up about the viral swinging scandal that rocked her community, the faith crisis that led her to step away from the Mormon Church, and how she navigated a public divorce to find a healthy co-parenting rhythm.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe I'm just like weird, maybe I'm crunchy. |
| 0:03.6 | This is the Southern Tea with Lindsay Crisley. |
| 0:06.2 | I think it's so funny when you get Christmas cards and all of these people write their children's accomplishments on the back. |
| 0:12.6 | I don't love them. |
| 0:13.7 | A Southern girl and a boy mom who's trying to navigate life while staying true to her roots. |
| 0:18.9 | I am a functioning, non-functioning human being right now. |
| 0:22.7 | Join Lindsay each week as she swears to spill the tea, the whole tea, and nothing but the tea. |
| 0:28.6 | That is the tea. |
| 0:30.1 | Here's Lindsay. |
| 0:33.9 | Good morning, Miranda. How are you? |
| 0:36.0 | I'm good. How are you? |
| 0:56.7 | I'm doing well. I got the screener for the new season of Secret Wives of Mormon Lives. Pretty crazy. It's so crazy. I kind of feel like your character has evolved from when you first went on to now. Oh oh do you good i feel like i've evolved as a person so i love right yeah it's so cool um can you tell me what made |
| 1:03.4 | you like inspired to kind of share your life online um well when it came to season one, obviously I turned down the offer. I at the |
| 1:13.9 | time was going through, well, not divorced yet, but my marriage was rocky and, you know, you hear |
| 1:21.9 | what reality TV is like. There's definitely, you know, a stigma, stereotype. And I think definitely you know a stigma stereotype um and i think you know most of the time |
| 1:32.1 | sharing your life online can be pretty detrimental in a lot of the in a lot of ways but i feel like |
| 1:39.3 | as time went on and i you know after my divorce and I had done a lot of healing and growing and I |
| 1:47.0 | think I just got to a point where I felt like I was in a really good headspace and um and I don't |
| 1:54.2 | know I just I think when season two came around and they approached me um I just completely felt |
| 2:00.5 | differently about it because when it was first season one, I was like, |
| 2:03.7 | I had my gut just says no. And then with season two, I just, I don't even really know exactly what it |
| 2:09.5 | was, but I just felt differently about it and decided to give it a go. And, you know, I'm glad I did |
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