The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Layla Taylor confirmed in a tearful TikTok video that she is “not” together with her boyfriend Mason McWhorter.
“I don’t ever actually come on my web page and cry so that is already actually onerous for me to do,” Layla, 24, admitted to her TikTok followers on Saturday, February 7. “I’m on actuality TV … and that feels protected for me to be open on, however for some cause, my web page has all the time been actually onerous for me to be susceptible on.”
The fact star felt it was vital to “set the document straight” as a result of she was “already seeing some feedback that aren’t true” concerning the breakup. After confirming the break up was “nonetheless tremendous contemporary,” Layla insisted that there was “no dangerous blood” between the previous couple.
“I genuinely want and wish one of the best for Mason. Issues simply weren’t figuring out,” she defined. “I believe we have been simply on two completely different paths proper now. He felt to ensure that him to develop, he needed to be on his personal. And I respect his choice, and I really hope that he will get what he needs in life.”
Layla mentioned that her separation from Mason was significantly tough as a result of he received near her two sons, Ollie and Maxwell, after the pair began courting final summer season. (Layla shares her sons together with her ex-husband Clayton Wessel.)
“Mason was a extremely massive a part of me and my boys’ lives for the previous virtually 12 months,” she acknowledged. “And we went by means of quite a bit on this final 12 months, to be sincere. However I’m grateful for every thing, and I’m grateful he was part of my life for a way lengthy he was.”
As she teared up once more, Layla confessed, “I simply actually thought that I used to be gonna get the household that I needed so badly.”
Layla thanked her followers for being “protecting” of her, although she additionally inspired everybody to be “good and sort” to Mason.
“I nonetheless love him a lot and I solely need one of the best for him,” she concluded.
In November, Layla completely opened as much as Us Weekly about the place issues stood with Mason as she was admittedly “so jaded from [her] ex-husband and that marriage.”
“Proper now, I’m type of fearful of marriage however I simply need to get to know any person very effectively earlier than I even contemplate that,” she advised Us. “I’m simply completely satisfied and content material the place me and Mason are. And if one way or the other that ever have been to come back up, then we’d see.”
Many The Secret Lives of Mormon Lives viewers immediately acknowledged Mason when he went public with the Hulu star final 12 months since he’s the brother of Layla’s ex Chase McWhorter.
“We simply giggle about it. I do know it’s not probably the most preferrred scenario, courting brothers, however typically life provides you lemons,” Layla advised Us in November. “You simply need to make lemonade and it’s what it’s. It makes humorous, awkward conditions typically. However we simply make mild of it as a result of there’s no avoiding it.”
On the time, Layla confirmed that she and Mason have been “nonetheless collectively” and that “issues [were] going actually nice” of their relationship.
“I’m actually completely satisfied,” she beamed on the time. “He’s simply my finest pal. I really feel like me and him simply get alongside very well. Now we have quite a lot of similarities and our relationship simply feels very pure and never pressured. I don’t need to faux to be any person that I’m not with him.”
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives followers have watched the solid change on and off display screen earlier than the collection even debuted. Season 1 of hit actuality collection, which follows a gaggle of Mormon mother influencers, debuted on Hulu in September 2024 following star Taylor Frankie Paul‘s “tender swinging” intercourse scandal. “We’re not all swingers,” Whitney […]
In the meantime, Us realized in December that some key particulars from Layla’s divorce had been finalized. A Utah choose dominated that Layla and her ex-husband Clayton would share joint authorized and bodily custody of their two children, whereas neither occasion was awarded alimony.
Layla and Clayton have been married for almost three years. Layla first filed for divorce in January 2024, although the court docket dismissed the case in March. She refiled on February 20, 2025.
