The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt had an awkward reaction when pushed to address husband Conner Leavitt‘s past porn addiction and infidelity.
“I don’t know the logistics of that,” Whitney, 32, told Ziwe Fumudoh in an interview released on Tuesday, February 17, where she was asked about the details of Conner’s porn struggles. “I don’t think I want to know. That was something for him to figure out.”
Whitney revealed she personally has never watched any sexually explicit content. She said the closest she has come to watching porn is “rated-R movies that have intense sex scenes” but then couldn’t name any examples except Ryan Murphy’s new FX series The Beauty.
The reality star had a similar response when asked who Conner was “talking to” on dating apps, saying, “I have no idea. I don’t want to know.”
Conner and Whitney have leaned into speculation regarding their marriage after The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives premiered in September 2024. During the season 1 premiere, Conner and Whitney relocated back to Utah from Hawaii after previously leaving when Conner admitted to having a secret Tinder account to solicit NSFW images.
Conner and Whitney, who shared two kids at the time, worked on their marriage and later expanded their family with a third baby.
“It takes time and it takes a lot of work. I remember being in therapy and my therapist asked me, ‘Before we even dive into this, you need to decide is this something you want to work out or something you don’t want to work out?’” Whitney exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2024. “It was something I really had to sit down [and think], ‘Did I want to rebuild this trust?’ That doesn’t mean that things aren’t still triggering to me. When it is, then I’m going to work it out and just keep moving forward.”
After viewers started to speculate about Conner’s sexuality, the pair would poke fun at the comments.
“Do I need to put out a sex tape or something? Trust me, we’re good. Like, everything is fine,” Whitney quipped on the “Off the Vine” podcast in October 2024. “I think it’s because, like, when we were going through our personal stuff — and I know you haven’t seen it, but he struggled through a porn addiction — and there’s a scene where one of my friends says something along the lines like, ‘Oh, I can see how he was confused sexually.’”
Conner, for his part, opened up about working through trauma after he was sexually abused.
“I had a really big problem with pornography. On top of that, I had a presence on a dating website — not because I didn’t love my wife — but because I felt like I needed validation,” he explained during the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 2 reunion in June 2025. “I needed to get help. So we started going to therapy and trying to figure out why — and I knew why.”
Conner revealed that he only shared this information “with Whitney, my therapist and my family” before addressing it on screen.
“When I was a little boy, I was raped. When I was finally honest with that emotion and that memory, everything made sense,” he said in the emotional joint interview with Whitney. “The validation I needed … I hate that I did that to you. But I’m so proud that I was able to be honest with you and start working through some really, really hard stuff.”
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