I can’t get the choir from the Secret Lives of Mormon Lives theme song out of my head, and honestly, I’m not mad at it. Something else I’ve been thinking about since last year when season one rocked my world: what the hell were those Mormons actually up to at their soft swinging rendezvous? When Taylor’s toes were held to the fire in the hot seat by her LDS lady gang, it seemed like she and her ex-husband must have been participating in some serious XXX behavior behind the scenes. But now that one of the alleged swingers in question, Miranda McWhorter, has graced MomTok with her presence, she’s singing a whole different church song. Like, sorry, all of this fuss was about kissing?! Not according to Taylor, and frankly, I’m a little bit gagged about what she says went down. What exactly happened at the Mormon swinger parties of Secret Lives? Here’s every juicy detail.
What exactly happened at the Mormon swinger parties discussed on Secret Lives of Mormon Wives?
“No one is innocent. Everyone has hooked up with everyone in the situation,” Taylor posted in a TikTok back when the MomTok scandal originally broke before the show. When Taylor’s ex-BFF slash fellow swinger, Miranda, appears in her first scene for SLOMW, she tells the group that “the height of what [she] was ever involved in was like playing spin the bottle and kissing other people,” which is why Miranda found it “very jarring” that Taylor was saying “the exact opposite,” as Jessi puts it. When Demi asked if Miranda and Taylor had kissed, Taylor shrugged coyly instead of giving a hard no, so…
When Miranda and Taylor finally have a private one-on-one about the situation in episode 3, she reiterates that “hook up” with anyone, leading Taylor to suggest maybe they have different definitions of the word because, according to Taylor, it was way more than kissing. They did everything “that Love Island does, plus a little more.” Taylor (my talkative queen) then goes on to list the specifics in her confessional interview: “We did have sex in the shower with our husbands, all together. We also had sex in the same bed at the same time.”
She continued that they would “blindfold each other” and have to “guess which husband you were kissing.” Taylor also describes a night when four wives, including herself and Miranda, got dressed in short shorts for their husbands. That night, Taylor claims, “They were so drunk we were making out, and we were on top of each other, and they all filmed it on their phones.”
When the producers read Miranda Taylor’s laundry list, Miranda concedes, “I mean, Taylor’s not wrong.” Okay, case closed!
Did they have sex at the Mormon swinger parties?
According to Miranda McWhorter, “no one ever had sex, period,” and she was willing to “go to [her] grave,” with that being her truth. As Miranda’s ex-husband, Chase, so crassly puts it at the Halloween party in episode 2, “Did you ask Taylor though if I ever fucked her? Because the answer is no,” adding that nothing happened between them… outside spin the bottle. What a Godly gentleman!
Taylor also confirms in the third episode that she “didn’t mean sex” when she said everyone was hooking up. She meant “everyone was doing things with each other.” She’d later elaborate that there was group sex in front of other partners, in the same bed, but not with partners outside of the relationship.
Who was at the Mormon swinger parties from the Secrets Lives cast?
“Miranda and her ex-husband Chase were the couple heavily involved in the swinging with Taylor and her ex-husband,” Jessi explains in episode 1. Though Miranda originally denied her involvement when the scandal first went viral, she has since returned to MomTok (and the cameras) to share her side since Taylor has been “very vocal” about what went down. Miranda opens up to the MomTok OGs, saying she originally refused to “own” her involvement because she felt “weird” and didn’t want to “keep doing” those activities.
They both agree that many other Mormon couples, at least four total, were involved.
Though they’ve struggled to agree on the extent of intimacy that went down at these parties, Miranda and Taylor agree that things got too messy when Miranda’s ex, Chase, expressed “feelings” for Taylor after Taylor told him she had a sex dream about him (TBF, can’t blame Taylor’s subconscious given circumstances). Taylor apologized to Miranda, however, for not being forthright about Chase’s creepin’ on the low, though she refuses to agree she “stole” her best friend’s husband, as the rumors were saying.
