Taylor Frankie Paul he’s getting candid about his physical health during the recent withdrawal of The Bachelorette and his last drama with ex Dakota Mortensen.
On Tuesday, May 5 posted on Instagram, i Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star shared a seemingly AI-generated photo of himself staring into a mirror covered in bandages and an Icy Hot patch and attached to an IV drip. In the photo, Taylor, 31, is shown with her hair in a bun and wearing a spotted gray t-shirt, while in her opinion, the reality star looks super cute and red carpet ready.
“It’s mental health awareness month. I had to humble myself to learn something from an experience I need to live to understand,” Taylor captioned the photo. “What stage should we start with?”
In a series of Instagram stories, Taylor explained that she has been dealing with various illnesses recently.
“I know my Icy Hot episode is funny and, yes, it’s probably funny that I added it,” she wrote with a photo of a variety of drugs and medical products. “However, I use them every day along with heat packs and other pain relievers for the pain in my body.”
While Taylor didn’t go into detail about what’s causing her physical pain, in another Instagram Story, she shared that she uses Icy Hot for “pain patches,” “heat relieves tension” and “IV [drip] it helps hydrate and replenish when lacking nutrients due to lack of appetite.”
“The band-aids were made on purpose – you can’t see the pain,” he added.
In the next slide, Taylor shared a screenshot of an Instagram DM where a fan asked, “Why are you in so much pain, Taylor?”
“I’ll be sharing how you get to this point, not today,” Taylor cryptically wrote over the screenshot.
I Mormon wives The star has faced personal and professional challenges over the past few months. In March, TMZ published photos of a domestic incident in 2023 involving Taylor and ex Dakota where she was seen throwing a bar at Dakota during a fight. On the same day, ABC released a new season of The Bachelorette including Taylor in its program.
After the photos went public, Dakota, 33, was granted a temporary protection order against Taylor and temporary custody of their two-year-old son, Ever, in March. Taylor was granted his own personal protective order against Dakota in April. During a hearing on April 30, a judge approved protective orders for Taylor and Dakota for a period of three years. No changes were made to Ever’s couple custody arrangements at that time. (Taylor is currently allowed up to eight hours of supervised visitation with her son.)
“This has been a very toxic relationship. It’s beyond the pale in many ways, it’s toxic,” Utah Commissioner. Russell Minas he told the two during the hearing of the case on April 30. “What I saw in the evidence is even posting [the] final hearing, there seems to be an ongoing attraction they have for each other. … You guys should get a lot here. You have to figure out how to work as parents. “
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen’s relationship timeline is hard to pin down after multiple breakups — but how long were they together during their public split? Taylor and Dakota started dating before the show aired on Hulu in September 2024. Dakota was Taylor’s first public. […]
“I hope that you are not successful people in the game and in the dispute,” added the judge. “You have to put your child first and protect the child in this conflict, I will leave this current order. I need to think a little about this administration’s promotion. I have mixed feelings about it.
In April, Salt Lake City prosecutors declined to file charges against Taylor in two other domestic violence incidents involving him and Dakota that were reported to police in Utah in 2024 and February of this year, respectively.
