Whitney Leavitt is playing coy about her future on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
“We’re figuring it out in real-time. I don’t really know,” Whitney, 32, said of whether she’ll return to the show during a Wednesday, April 8, interview on Good Morning America. “I feel sometimes that it’s like time to venture out.”
Referring to her current stint as Roxie Hart in Broadway’s Chicago, she added, “Like, this is what I’m passionate about.”
Whitney, 32, has been part of the Mormon Wives cast since it premiered in September 2024, starring alongside Taylor Frankie Paul, Mayci Neeley, Layla Taylor, Mikayla Matthews, Jessi Draper, Jen Affleck and Demi Engemann. Miranda Hope McWhorter joined the cast during the show’s second season, while Demi bowed out during the recently aired fourth season.
News broke in March that production on season 5 of the hit Hulu reality show had paused as reports emerged of an alleged domestic dispute between Taylor, 31, and ex Dakota Mortensen, 33, the previous month.
Utah’s Draper City Police Department confirmed to Us Weekly that it had an open “domestic assault investigation” involving the pair, with allegations “made in both directions.”
NBC News later reported that Utah’s West Jordan Police Department was also investigating a third allegation of domestic violence involving the pair stemming from an incident in 2024.
Mikayla, 26, shared via Instagram that the pause was the cast’s idea. “It was a decision that all of us girls came up with and agreed on. We didn’t feel comfortable filming with everything that was happening,” she said.
Jessi, 33, also commented on the production pause in a March interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “Me and the girls, we did decide to stop filming when we found this out because we were starting to hear things a little bit before it leaked,” she said. “We just didn’t want to be filming and say the wrong thing on camera, not knowing the full story yet. We didn’t want to have to process all this information for the first time and then also be speaking about it. We just thought, for everyone’s mental health, let’s take a beat and let’s not film right now.”
“We went to production and the network, and they were all so supportive, and they were like, ‘We totally get it. You guys come first,’” Jessi added. “They handled it so well. Because of that, we all felt comfortable being like, ‘You know what? This is our real lives and if we want this show to continue to be successful, we have to handle this the right way.’”
News of the production pause broke the same week that Taylor’s season of The Bachelorette was set to premiere on ABC. However, the network pulled the plug on season 22 of the reality dating competition after TMZ published footage of a 2023 domestic incident involving Taylor and Dakota.
“In light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of The Bachelorette at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family,” a Disney Entertainment Television spokesperson told Us in a statement at the time.
Taylor and Dakota have since been engaged in various legal challenges, with both filing for temporary restraining orders against the other. Dakota’s was granted in March, while Taylor’s request for a temporary protective order was granted on Wednesday.
In March, Dakota was also granted temporary custody of their 2-year-old son, Ever. (Taylor also shares daughter Indy, 8, and son Ocean, 5, with ex-husband Tate Paul.)
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