Jana Kramer has ideas about ABC’s last-minute resolution to cancel Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of The Bachelorette.
“Abuse isn’t nice TV,” Kramer, 42, stated on the Thursday, March 19, episode of her “I Do, Half 2” podcast. “The place it’s being bodily, that isn’t one thing that our kids have to see. … When it’s important to seize somebody, harm somebody, push somebody, verbally, bodily, that isn’t one thing to get viewership for.”
Taylor, 31, was named as the following Bachelorette in fall 2025, together with her season scheduled to premiere on ABC Sunday, March 22. Days earlier than the premiere, footage leaked of Taylor assaulting and throwing a number of chairs at ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen in 2023 whereas within the presence of her daughter. (Taylor shares Indy, 8, and Ocean, 5, with ex-husband Tate Paul, in addition to son Ever, 2, with Dakota, 33.)
In mild of the video’s launch, ABC pulled the plug on Taylor’s season.
The powers that be at ABC weren’t impressed with the drama surrounding Taylor Frankie Paul. “ABC is furious over the scenario,” a supply solely shared with Us Weekly. “Taylor had a breach of contract, and they’re internally investigating.” Earlier than Disney Leisure Tv confirmed to Us on Thursday, March 19, that ABC wouldn’t […]
“DV will not be one thing to joke about [or] to get viewership,” Jana, who beforehand claimed to endure home abuse throughout her first marriage, said on Thursday. “It’s simply under no circumstances, and if it was a man, they’d have shut it down instantly.”
ABC has not addressed their particular causes for ready to scrap Taylor’s journey till the video was launched, although a rep did concern an announcement addressing the cancellation itself.
“In mild of the newly launched video simply surfaced at this time, we’ve made the choice to not transfer ahead with the brand new season of The Bachelorette right now,” a spokesperson for Disney Leisure Tv advised Us Weekly in a Thursday assertion. “Our focus is on supporting the household.”
Taylor can also be a star on Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which additionally ceased manufacturing on its fifth season.
“I’m pleased with the [other] women for not filming The Secret Life and being, like, ‘You guys have to determine this out,’” Jana stated, referring to the studies that Taylor’s costars met with Disney execs to precise their alleged need to now not filming together with her. “You’re simply enabling a scenario that isn’t wholesome and isn’t protected for anyone.”
In accordance with Jana, ABC would have been “feeding into this actually terrible narrative” glorifying home violence had they not canceled the present.
“It’s not acceptable on the facet, whether or not violent resistance or not,” the One Tree Hill alum harassed on her podcast. “Defend your self to get out of a scenario if that’s the case, but it surely’s not one thing the place you need to be highlighting [on television] or saying that conduct is OK. It’s not OK.”
After Taylor’s season of The Bachelorette was axed, she launched an announcement.
“Taylor may be very grateful for ABC’s assist as she prioritizes her household’s security and safety,” a rep for the MomTok creator stated in a Thursday assertion. “After years of silently struggling intensive psychological and bodily abuse in addition to threats of retaliation, Taylor is lastly gaining the energy to face her accuser and taking steps to make sure that she and her kids are shielded from any additional hurt.”
Earlier than her season of The Bachelorette was canceled, Taylor Frankie Paul stated she would have filmed even when she was pregnant with ex Dakota Mortensen‘s child. In a profile revealed by Vulture on Friday, March 20 — which was carried out earlier than ABC canceled the season — the fact star, 31, was requested about Dakota’s onscreen […]
The assertion concluded, “She is presently exploring all of her choices, searching for assist and making ready to personal and share her story.”
Dakota, in the meantime, has denied any accusations towards him.
“As anybody who has seen the video will perceive, it is a deeply upsetting scenario,” Dakota stated in a separate assertion on Thursday. “I’m, sadly, used to those baseless claims about me and our relationship, which I categorically deny. I’m specializing in our son and his security, and hope that Taylor will do the identical.”
The subsequent day, Us confirmed that Dakota was granted a brief protecting order barring Taylor from coming inside 100 ft of her ex or having any on-line communication earlier than a courtroom listening to scheduled for early April. The order additionally granted Dakota sole custody of Ever in the intervening time.
In the event you or somebody you understand is experiencing home violence, please name the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential assist.
