The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Layla Taylor confirmed in a tearful TikTok video that she is “now not” along with her boyfriend Mason McWhorter.
“I don’t ever actually come on my web page and cry so that is already actually arduous 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 arduous for me to be weak on.”
The truth 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 recent,” Layla insisted that there was “no dangerous blood” between the previous couple.
“I genuinely want and need one of the best for Mason. Issues simply weren’t figuring out,” she defined. “I believe we had been simply on two totally different paths proper now. He felt to ensure that him to develop, he needed to be on his personal. And I respect his determination, and I really hope that he will get what he desires in life.”
Layla mentioned that her separation from Mason was notably tough as a result of he bought near her two sons, Ollie and Maxwell, after the pair began courting final summer time. (Layla shares her sons along with her ex-husband Clayton Wessel.)
“Mason was a extremely large a part of me and my boys’ lives for the previous nearly 12 months,” she acknowledged. “And we went by way of quite a bit on this final 12 months, to be trustworthy. 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 wished 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 solely 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 afraid of marriage however I simply need to get to know anyone very properly earlier than I even contemplate that,” she advised Us. “I’m simply comfortable and content material the place me and Mason are. And if by some means that ever had been to return up, then we might 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 snigger about it. I do know it’s not probably the most very best scenario, courting brothers, however typically life provides you lemons,” Layla advised Us in November. “You simply should 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 had been “nonetheless collectively” and that “issues [were] going actually nice” of their relationship.
“I’m actually comfortable,” she beamed on the time. “He’s simply my greatest buddy. I really feel like me and him simply get alongside rather well. Now we have numerous similarities and our relationship simply feels very pure and never pressured. I don’t should fake to be anyone that I’m not with him.”
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives followers have watched the solid change on and off display earlier than the collection even debuted. Season 1 of hit actuality collection, which follows a bunch of Mormon mother influencers, debuted on Hulu in September 2024 following star Taylor Frankie Paul‘s “gentle swinging” intercourse scandal. “We’re not all swingers,” Whitney […]
In the meantime, Us discovered 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 youngsters, whereas neither occasion was awarded alimony.
Layla and Clayton had 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.
