The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Layla Taylor confirmed in a tearful TikTok video that she is “no longer” with her boyfriend Mason McWhorter.
“I don’t ever really come on my page and cry so this is already really hard for me to do,” Layla, 24, admitted to her TikTok followers on Saturday, February 7. “I’m on reality TV … and that feels safe for me to be open on, but for some reason, my page has always been really hard for me to be vulnerable on.”
The reality star felt it was important to “set the record straight” because she was “already seeing some comments that are not true” about the breakup. After confirming the split was “still super fresh,” Layla insisted that there was “no bad blood” between the former couple.
“I genuinely wish and want the best for Mason. Things just weren’t working out,” she explained. “I think we were just on two different paths right now. He felt in order for him to grow, he had to be on his own. And I respect his decision, and I truly hope that he gets what he wants in life.”
Layla said that her separation from Mason was particularly rough because he got close to her two sons, Ollie and Maxwell, after the pair started dating last summer. (Layla shares her sons with her ex-husband Clayton Wessel.)
“Mason was a really big part of me and my boys’ lives for the past almost year,” she acknowledged. “And we went through a lot in this last year, to be honest. But I’m grateful for everything, and I’m grateful he was a part of my life for how long he was.”
As she teared up again, Layla confessed, “I just really thought that I was gonna get the family that I wanted so badly.”
Layla thanked her fans for being “protective” of her, though she also encouraged everyone to be “nice and kind” to Mason.
“I still love him so much and I only want the best for him,” she concluded.
In November, Layla exclusively opened up to Us Weekly about where things stood with Mason as she was admittedly “so jaded from [her] ex-husband and that marriage.”
“Right now, I’m kind of scared of marriage but I just want to get to know somebody very well before I even consider that,” she told Us. “I’m just happy and content where me and Mason are. And if somehow that ever were to come up, then we would see.”
Many The Secret Lives of Mormon Lives viewers instantly recognized Mason when he went public with the Hulu star last year since he is the brother of Layla’s ex Chase McWhorter.
“We just laugh about it. I know it’s not the most ideal situation, dating brothers, but sometimes life gives you lemons,” Layla told Us in November. “You just have to make lemonade and it is what it is. It makes funny, awkward situations sometimes. But we just make light of it because there’s no avoiding it.”
At the time, Layla confirmed that she and Mason were “still together” and that “things [were] going really great” in their relationship.
“I’m really happy,” she beamed at the time. “He’s just my best friend. I feel like me and him just get along really well. We have a lot of similarities and our relationship just feels very natural and not forced. I don’t have to pretend to be somebody that I’m not with him.”
Meanwhile, Us learned in December that some key details from Layla’s divorce had been finalized. A Utah judge ruled that Layla and her ex-husband Clayton would share joint legal and physical custody of their two kids, while neither party was awarded alimony.
Layla and Clayton were married for nearly three years. Layla first filed for divorce in January 2024, though the court dismissed the case in March. She refiled on February 20, 2025.
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