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If you’re still looking for a last-minute present for Mother’s Day, may we suggest beef with another mom? Just kidding, massage certificate is the way to go. Although The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has resumed filming season 5, Mikayla Matthews and Taylor Frankie Paul are still fighting on social media. It started when Matthews put out a statement on the Paul and her current legal woes with ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen two months after the rest of her cast weighed in). Matthews posted a wall of text to her Instragram Stories on Saturday, starting with an extended and yucky metaphor: “If I was knowingly giving myself rashes, I wouldn’t be expecting sympathy from anyone online or privately.”
Sooo Mikayla put out this statement regarding the Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota situation and Taylor responded to it via stephwithdadeets IG post. Taylor says Mikayla is the epitome of someone waiting for her downfall. #SLOMW pic.twitter.com/xzfnIqT604
— Bye Wig Hello Drama (@HousewivesHub) May 10, 2026
“I have felt absolutely sick to my stomach and horrible for what everyone involved must be feeling and going through,” Matthews wrote. “However, it is not my job to enable poor or dangerous behavior from either party, especially when children are involved. That doesn’t mean I don’t love them or want the best for their individual futures. It just means I cannot sit here and pretend it’s OK that years of destructive behavior are now being discussed more than ever online and turned into a ‘pick a side’ game.” The only side Matthews is willing to take? That of the children. Matthews wrote that she had been a really good friend, but that stops now. “Without even having to be asked, I sent cookies, drinks, meals, etc, and showed up even at my own personal lowest while navigating my own trauma, betrayal and health issues,” she wrote.
Paul responded, not on her on stories, but in reality TV drama recapper @stephwithdadeets’ Instagram comments. Paul said Matthews was “someone that was waiting for my downfall and not only watched it, but clearly kicking me too.” Paul claimed that, rather than being supportive and reaching out in friendship, Matthews and the SLOMW cast’s interest in her pain in purely prurient. “They always wanted an update on my life, let’s not get that twisted. She is ‘exhausted of me’ as I tried to stay home and suffer in silence,” she wrote. “Ps: she can find her way to the door if she doesn’t want to film with me. Next.”
Matthews responded to Paul’s response, claiming once again that she’s been nothing but a friend. “If ‘praying for her downfall’ is checking in as she even said ‘without asking’ going to bat for her every time, and sending things to make sure she was eating or being taken care of, then I guess she has a point,” Matthews wrote. “But THAT IS WHAT A FRIEND IS, you shouldn’t have to ask your friends to care about you.” Matthews ended with a message of love (with boundaries). “There is absolutely no feud, at least from me,” she wrote. “But there does come a point where destructive and dangerous behavior, especially when someone wants to justify it in any capacity on further proves my need for firmer boundaries ❤️.” So now the feud is about whether or not there’s a feud.
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