Taylor Frankie Paul Says She Quit ‘Mormon Wives’ Due to …

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Taylor Frankie Paul is done with The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives — and she’s leaving the Hulu reality show amid a whole lot of drama.

The reality star announced her exit Monday, and in the process, she accused her co-stars of bullying her while she deals with ongoing legal and custody battles involving her exes.

In a lengthy Instagram post, Taylor thanked the network for supporting her and allowing her to return to the show following the chaos surrounding her abruptly canceled season of The Bachelorette.

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But she made it clear that she’s no longer interested in continuing under the current circumstances.

“However, I don’t desire to move forward like this,” Taylor wrote.

Taylor also claimed that she had been the target of a months-long “pile on” involving nearly the entire cast.

“Almost the entire cast plus some, going at me….laughing about my kids is disgusting,” she alleged.

Taylor went on to claim that some of the women knew what she had been dealing with over the past several months but continued to criticize her anyway.

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She specifically described the situation as “bullying for months,” while also claiming that messages had been sent to her by a group that wanted to push her “to the point of committing suicide.”

She said the messages arrived while she was on her way to film the Season 5 introduction, which helps explain why she did not appear in portions of it.

Naturally, this latest drama comes at a particularly messy time for Taylor.

Her custody battles with ex-husband Tate Paul and ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen have continued to play out amid a series of legal developments.

Just last week, we reported that Taylor had allegedly failed multiple court-ordered drug tests, resulting in her parenting time being reduced to eight hours per week. Taylor has not publicly addressed those allegations.

Taylor’s apparent Mormon Wives exit also comes shortly after co-star Mikayla Matthews announced that she would not continue with the series, citing Taylor’s return as a major reason for her decision.

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Mikayla has since doubled down, saying she still does not plan to return despite Taylor’s apparent departure.

As for Taylor, she ended her lengthy statement with a surprisingly somber assessment of the situation.

“It’s a pleasure to remove myself so they can continue,” she wrote, adding that she had nearly convinced herself she deserved “all this pain.”

“My question has been how much suffering and scrutiny is going to be enough…I’m just relieved to be out.”

So, yeah. Whatever happens next for The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, it seems increasingly unlikely that the MomTok drama is going away anytime soon.

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Patrick Clancy Calls for Compassion & Accountability Over Killing of His Three …

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During his wide-ranging 60 Minutes interview, Patrick Clancy of course discussed his ex-wife’s mistrial.

He spoke of his youngest dying in his arms, about his hopes for the future, and shared that he and his wife are expecting.

Patrick also spoke about both compassion and consequences for Lindsay.

He argued that the two can, and should, coexist.

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Patrick Clancy calls for accountability and compassion to go hand-in-hand

Speaking to the once-prized 60 Minutes on Sunday, September 20, Patrick Clancy emphasized that compassion and accountability can coexist.

The deaths of the three young Clancy children were horrific.

But, despite what unhinged wingnuts trying to turn this into a culture war flashpoint would say, this was not the product of criminal intention, but of mental illness.

In this complex case, we all have to ask ourselves: what does true justice look like, and is the state equipped to give it?

Patrick has wrestled with that a lot, and had some thoughts to share.

During his interview, Patrick shared the belief that society can find a compassionate way to respond to tragedies like the one that destroyed his family.

He emphasized that “that doesn’t mean ‘no accountability.'”

Compassion, Patrick explained, involves recognizing both the suffering and stigma that surround mental illness.

At the same time, he expressed the importance of finding ways to prevent more families from suffering from tragedies like this one.

Patrick didn’t suggest that he has all of the answers. He doesn’t. It’s likely that no one person does.

Patrick Clancy views the deaths of his children with more moral clarity than a lot of very loud folks online seem to

We mentioned that some political malefactors and manosphere types have been using the tragedy of the Lindsay Clancy case as a “culture war” touchstone.

Some deeply weird men have used social media to claim that they used the case as a litmus test to evaluate their girlfriends.

(The alleged “male loneliness epidemic” seems to be, if anything, a self-inflicted situation.)

These individuals might say that an acquittal or even a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity (the latter of which, every reasonable juror had settled upon) would open the floodgates for other moms to kill their kids, claim mental illness, and … what, profit?

But that’s not how this works. There is no deterrent for mental illness, no way to scare someone out of postpartum psychosis.

Postpartum depression is common enough that there are old-timey, folksy names for it, such as the baby blues. Postpartum psychosis is less common, and significantly more dangerous.

Many people have shared their experiences with psychosis and psychotic episodes. For some, it meant taking off their clothes and going outside, under the delusion that this would prevent the world from ending. For others, it meant believing that all of the food in their home was poison, resulting in them throwing away hundreds of dollars in perfectly fine groceries.

As Patrick says, his ex-wife’s mental illness does not mean that she cannot be accountable for her physical actions, but both the courts and society should understand that she was not thinking rationally. She did not decide to do this.

Andrea Yates was, before Lindsay Clancy, perhaps the most famous case of postpartum psychosis resulting in the deaths of all of the sufferer’s children in living memory.

She is still in an institution. Even if Lindsay were to “go free,” she would never be free — and would always be haunted by this life-ruining moment.

For now, it’s unclear if prosecutors will even bother with another trial. It was a mistake to start with, and it backfired.

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Christina Applegate Offers Glowing Health Update Following Months-Long Hospitalization

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Finally, a little good news is coming from Christina Applegate.

Following reports of a hospitalization that spanned months, the 54-year-old actress is showing more than proof of life.

She’s also offering a health update and giving a shoutout to her fans.

Obviously, her MS journey remains ongoing. But this is a promising update.

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Christina Applegate is sending love to her fans

On Monday, September 21, actress Christina Applegate offered up her first fresh, new Instagram look at herself in months.

(A couple of months ago, she shared some apparent throwbacks — which are great, but not necessarily reassuring to followers.)

“Fresh hair color, new weird spot on my cheek haha,” she announced in the caption of a short video.

In the video, Applegate shows off her fresh blonde dye job.

“Thank you @davestanwell for brightening up my cloudy day,” she expressed.

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“Love you,” Applegate wrote, “and love to you all out there.”

The video shows her wearing a cozy black hoodie and a gray shirt.

She posed, showing off her hair from the front and the side.

Applegate also shared a selfie to her Instagram Story, updating fans on her hair.

Considering that she was in the hospital four four months and only returned home in early August, it looks like she’s doing much better.

Following a four-month hospitalization, Christina Applegate shared this update caption alongside her freshly treated hair. (Image Credit: Instagram)

She is said to be doing well, relatively speaking

Christina Applegate was reportedly hospitalized in late March of this year.

She has multiple sclerosis.

In the second half of April, the actress thanked her fans for “the outpouring of love” while she focused upon her health.

Though she did not initially confirm her hospitalization, she did announce her own homecoming.

Taking to Instagram, she shared the humorous welcome home message that her child left for her.

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Seriously, that’s a fantastic way to welcome your mom home from an extended hospitalization.

(It might depend upon your mother and her sense of humor.)

In any case, Applegate was clearly in good spirits — about her homecoming after four months and about her new hair.

Multiple sclerosis impacts a few million people worldwide. There is no cure. It can rob people of so much joy.

It is encouraging to see that Applegate is feeling up to refreshing her look.

Christina Applegate Offers Glowing Health Update Following Months-Long Hospitalization was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Hayden Panettiere’s Cause of Death Confirmed as Accidental Fentanyl Overdose

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UPDATE: Law enforcement officials have now confirmed that Hayden suffered an accidental overdose after ingesting multiple drugs, including fentanyl.

“The cause of death has been ruled as toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, Alprazolam, Methocarbamol and Quetiapine,” reads an official coroner’s statement obtained by Variety. “The manner of death has been ruled accident.”

Read on for our initial coverage of the investigation into Hayden’s death and the search for a criminally culpable party.

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When we reported on investigators looking for Hayden Panettiere’s dealer, we noted that some wondered why such an incidental figure might be a target.

After all, authorities are still waiting on the full tox screen results. Isn’t this premature?

A new report explains why her alleged dealer is catching so much heat.

Pending further information, investigators believe that the late actress’ final pills were laced with something.

Did Hayden Panettiere die from fentanyl-laced pills?

TMZ spoke to a number of law enforcement sources, all connected to the case, about the tragic death of Hayden Panettiere.

They believe that the late actress took one fatal pill on the day that she died.

The belief at this time is that it was an oxycodone tablet — one that someone had laced with fentanyl.

Investigators are operating under the belief that Panettiere relied upon a “long time drug dealer” in Los Angeles.

They believe that this unidentified individual supplied her with black-market prescription medications, one of which being oxycodone.

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According to these law enforcement sources, it is believed that Panettiere took multiple drugs that she purchased from this alleged dealer on her flight from Los Angeles to South Carolina.

That flight took place the day before her tragic death.

Investigators are operating under the assumption that Panettiere took a single oxy the morning of her death.

Their belief, pending the full toxicology report, is that this pill was laced with fentanyl.

Meanwhile, DEA investigators in LA are reportedly trying to trace this pill to her alleged dealer.

Turning this tragedy into a prosecution is a complex prospect

Hayden Panettiere is not the first famous figure to pass away after an alleged overdose.

Several years ago, Friends alum Matthew Perry tragically died.

His doctor ended up with a years-spanning prison sentence. The actor’s assistant also went to prison.

Years earlier, Mac Miller’s death also resulted in a conviction for the drug dealer who supplied him with fentanyl-laced drugs.

This is, however, a touchy subject that many feel can miss the mark when it comes to substance abuse, tragic deaths, and justice.

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Many people can agree that the best way to build a healthy and just society is to decriminalize drug use and open legal pathways for people to get real help and recover from substance abuse as needed.

We have to emphasize, however, that if someone was selling tainted goods — whether they are gummy vitamins with lead in them or oxy pills with fentanyl — then that person’s role in someone’s death may be a little bigger than “incidental middleman in a sale.”

That said, we do not know that this was the case in Panettiere’s tragic death.

Right now, we’re going on what law enforcement says. These are not exactly trustworthy sources. They are police, not neutral reporters of the facts.

And they are, again, waiting on toxicology results. So we’re working on dubious parties who are running on what one might call educated guesses.

Hayden Panettiere’s Cause of Death Confirmed as Accidental Fentanyl Overdose was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Dolly Parton’s Nephew Abruptly Fired After Announcing Her Death

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On August 25, it was Bryan Seaver, nephew of Dolly Parton, who announced that she had passed away.

For many, this sad and formal announcement on her official page was their first introduction to him.

Now, in a stunning shakeup, he and his security companies have been fired from all family properties.

This could be a simple change … or the opening shot in a battle over the late icon’s estate.

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Dolly Parton’s nephew has been abruptly fired

TMZ got a look at a termination letter that Bryan Seaver, nephew of the late great Dolly Parton, received.

He was her longtime head of security.

The letter informed him that he and his security companies are immediately dismissed from every one of his late aunt’s properties.

That meant Dolly’s main residence in Nashville.

It also included her museum, her downtown residence, and her warehouse.

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It seems that the abrupt dismissal was timed with a replacement, to avoid gaps in security.

A new security team reportedly descended upon these properties.

Sometimes, the sudden death of a loved one — particularly the most monied member of a family — can lead to infighting and squabbling over a sprawling estate.

This means that some moves can be mere corrections or normal courses of action following a tragic death, while others can be power plays that lead to lengthy and ugly court battles.

Is an estate war brewing? Gosh, we hope not.

What does this mean? Bryan Seaver is speaking out

Bryan Seaver and his team are calling out Pinnacle Bank and Dolly Parton’s longtime manager, Danny Nozell.

Speaking to TMZ, they shared that they feel “dismayed by the unexpected and, so far, unexplained actions” following her death.

“We remain unshakably resolved to fulfill her final directive to protect her family,” the statement affirmed.

‘And we refuse to be intimidated by those whose actions we believe are being taken in bad faith,” they added.

“And,” the statement continued, “with the intent to profit from the life of someone who willingly gave so much.”

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According to the termination letter that Seaver received, the properties and professional interests that were once Dolly’s are now under the control of the DP Dean Trust.

The document does acknowledge that her nephew’s personal financial interest in the trust remains intact.

However, he no longer has any security duties.

Even if this was the right move for some unexplained reason, that has to hurt Seaver. He is, after all, grieving the passing of his aunt.

Our thoughts continue to go out to all who loved Dolly (and isn’t that all of us?). The world is worse in her absence.

Dolly Parton’s Nephew Abruptly Fired After Announcing Her Death was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Clavicular Charged With Rape, Drugging Woman For Sex

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Popular “looksmaxxing” influencer Clavicular is in some serious legal trouble.

The internet personality, whose real name is Braden Peters, has been charged with rape, drugging a person for sexual intercourse, and providing alcohol to a minor in Massachusetts (per TMZ).

According to court records, the charges were filed on September 8 in connection with an alleged incident that took place in May 2025.

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Peters, 20, was arrested in June and is scheduled to be arraigned on October 14.

It’s important to note that as of this writing, he has not been convicted of any wrongdoing.

The allegations appear to be connected to claims made by influencer Aleksandra Vasilevna Mendoza, who filed a civil lawsuit against Peters earlier this year.

Mendoza alleges that she met Peters when she was 16 and was paid $1,000 to appear in videos as the female face of his “looksmaxxing” content.

According to her lawsuit, Mendoza later traveled to Peters’ family home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where she says alcohol was provided and she became heavily intoxicated.

Mendoza alleges that Peters then had sex with her while she was unable to consent. She further alleges that she woke up the following morning to Peters having sex with her again without her consent.

Peters has denied the allegations.

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His representative pushed back against the way the criminal case was being characterized, telling TMZ that Peters had not been physically served and accusing The Bulwark, which first reported the charges, of exaggerating the situation.

“Braden Peters has not been physically served. As usual, the Bulwark is exaggerating,” representative Mitchell Jackson said, according to NBC News.

A representative for Peters also told TMZ that Mendoza initially filed her civil lawsuit without a sexual-assault claim, then amended it several months later to add one.

Peters’ attorney, Steve Kramer, previously said the allegations in the civil case were “unproven” and that his client intended to defend himself through the appropriate legal channels.

Meanwhile, Peters has addressed the latest controversy himself.

“Happens to all successful young men, people try to come for your money. Greed is evil,” he wrote on X, according to Complex.

For now, the criminal case is moving forward, with Peters expected in court next month.

Clavicular controversies seem to pop up at the rate of about one per month.

But given the serious nature of the charges, this is one legal battle the controversial influencer certainly won’t be able to simply scroll past.

Clavicular Charged With Rape, Drugging Woman For Sex was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Cindy Crawford ‘Beyond Gutted’ Over Presley Gerber’s Death [Report]

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No one is reeling more from Presley Gerber’s tragic death at 27 than his mother, Cindy Crawford.

He was so young. He was also at a rehab facility at the time of his death.

It sounds like he was getting help, just like you’re supposed to.

Now, his loved ones — especially his immediate family — are having to grapple with this terrible new reality.

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Cindy Crawford ‘has to be beyond gutted’

A source spoke to Page Six about how Cindy Crawford is processing the sudden passing of her son, Presley Gerber.

“They were so close,” the insider remarked.

“What you saw online and in the press wasn’t just for that purpose,” the source said, debunking PR suspicions.

“They were a tight-knit family,” the insider described, “and Kaia and Presley were more than just siblings.”

The source then stated: “Cindy has to be beyond gutted.”

A second insider also spoke about the state of the family.

“Cindy is inconsolable,” the source described.

“She’s absolutely devastated,” added the insider.

“This is every parent’s worst nightmare,” the source emphasized.

“And,” the insider continued, “the family is still trying to process everything that happened.”

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‘She was so involved in everything’

“Cindy was extremely involved in everything when it came to Kaia and Presley growing up,” a source said of Cindy Crawford’s role as a mother.

“She never missed a school function,” the insider detailed, “and was on top of everything when it came to her kids.”

The source opined: “I’m sure that Cindy would make sure her kid was going to the best rehab though.”

The insider continued: “That’s the kind of mom she was. She was so involved in everything for them.”

Beyond the family, the report detailed that Presley’s “entire friend group is devastated” by his sudden and tragic death.

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On Sunday, September 20, Santa Monica Police Department officers were dispatched to a rehab facility.

That same weekend, Presley had reportedly checked in for treatment.

His causes of death is believed to have been from a drug overdose. That is not unusual for those with long-term addiction struggles, but it is unexpected when someone is currently in a rehab facility.

Presley was only 27. This horrific loss has sent shockwaves through family, friends, and fans.

Our hearts go out to all who knew and loved him. No one should have to deal with this pain. We hope that, when the time comes, answers can give them the closure that they need.

Cindy Crawford ‘Beyond Gutted’ Over Presley Gerber’s Death [Report] was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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