The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Mikayla Matthews has so much more to say about Taylor Frankie Paul calling her out as a “snake friend.”
“Could probably write a book on every part I’ve needed to say on this. Nothing I said denied that she’s experienced pain, trauma, or difficult things, there’s literally absolute confidence about that,” Matthews, 26, wrote within the comments section of a fan video discussing the drama between her and Paul, which was shared via Instagram on Sunday, May 10. “Two things might be true. Someone might be hurting and still hurt people around them in the method.”
Matthews added that she “never” desired to see Paul “fail, suffer, or be canceled.”
“It was about not wanting to publicly take part in or normalize a cycle that was affecting everyone around it, especially where children and repeated violence were involved,” she responded.
Matthews also called Paul out for claiming that somebody had been a foul friend to her.
“What also won’t fly with me is the bad friends and snake friends narrative. Especially when so a lot of us spent years putting real care, time, energy, and emotional labor into attempting to support her through incredibly toxic situations,” she wrote. “Just like the weeks that we took away from our newborn stage, not even months postpartum, but weeks postpartum To examine in on her and support her journey occurring The Bachelorette, despite the fact that we knew she wasn’t taking it seriously and he or she wasn’t able to go on it.”
Matthews also identified that she’s been battling her own issues recently, as she confirmed her separation from husband Jace Terry during season 4 of Mormon Wives earlier this yr. She subsequently relocated to Hawaii to treat her ongoing chronic illness battle. (She and Terry, 30, share 4 kids.)
, “To take years out of our lives, time away from our families, from our own mental sanity, from our own healing, from a lot of our own ‘Mother’s Day’ moments, to place a friend and their trauma first out of real friendship and care, simply to have it diminished and shat on while it gets chalked as much as an attitude of ‘I can do what I would like and say whatever I would like’ while it’s hurting people around them is toxic and destructive behavior,” Matthews argued. “Compassion cannot only exist when it advantages one person.”
While Matthews and Paul should not in the perfect place at this moment, she clarified that she still wishes her former friend the perfect.
“I actually have not once attacked her character or tried to tear her down the way in which everyone so badly want people to imagine I actually have,” she explained. “If anything, I’ve consistently acknowledged that she loves her kids and that she has heart and I would like nothing greater than for her to be completely satisfied and healed.”
The Mormon Wives costars have been going forwards and backwards since earlier this month when fans accused Matthews of not being supportive of Paul and costar Jessi Draper during their difficult times.
Paul has been coping with multiple legal issues over the past few years stemming from domestic disputes together with her ex Dakota Mortensen. The exes were each granted protective orders against one another by a judge last month and Paul currently doesn’t have custody of the pair’s 2-year-old son, Ever. Draper, for her part, is in the midst of a divorce together with her estranged husband, Jordan Ngatikaura. Ngatikaura, 31, filed for divorce from Draper in March. (Paul can be mom to daughter Indy and son Ocean, whom she shares with ex-husband Tate Paul. Draper and Ngatikaura share kids Jagger and Jovi.)
While Paul and Draper have continued to make headlines over their ups and downs, Matthews addressed claims she hasn’t been asupportive costar or friend on Saturday, May 9.
“I actually have felt absolutely sick to my stomach and horrible for what everyone involved have to be feeling and going through,” Matthews wrote via Instagram while defending herself. “Nevertheless, it is just not my job to enable poor or dangerous behavior from either party, especially when children are involved. That doesn’t mean I don’t love them or want the perfect for his or her individual futures. It just means I cannot sit here and pretend it’s OK that years of destructive behavior at the moment are being discussed greater than ever online and changed into a ‘pick a side’ game.”
The next day, Paul entered the chat by calling Matthews a “snake friend” on social media.
“It’s Mother’s Day so I’ll say whatever I would like. As if it’s not already the worst time. I actually have [sic] STILL have ‘friends’ kicking me while I’m already down and calling it ‘setting a boundary’ after which BLAMES ME for being upset and responding,” she wrote via Instagram on Sunday. “That’s called shaming and attack while I had a moment to breathe and he or she knew that.”
Paul continued, “Not once have [I] called myself a ‘victim’ but I’m HUMAN and have breaking points. What a snake friend just did to me in the general public eye after every part she just witnessed … the shortage of empathy and silence was loud enough.”