Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives Demi Denies She Staged Dakota Affair

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Demi Engemann weighed in on the rumor she attempted to stage an affair with Taylor Frankie Paul’s now-ex Dakota Mortensen.

“Awkward that I now have to clarify this and reveal just how produced this show is … Production sat us down after filming season 1 asking us for ideas for a ‘big cliffhanger’ because the show was ‘boring,’” Demi, 30, alleged in the comments section of a post from Reality Check Please on Thursday, November 27. “We all threw out a bunch of ideas and one of mine was me saying that Dakota could meet up with me to get advice about him and Taylor and someone could ‘get footage’ of us talking in the car making it seem like ‘something might be going on between us.’”

Demi explained that the scene she and Dakota, 32, ended up filming was used in season 2 but in a more straightforward way.

“Then at the top of season 2 it’s cleared up that he was just there to get my advice about Taylor the same way he did with Mayci [Neeley],” she explained. “It really was not that deep or serious.”

Demi then slammed her Secret Lives of Mormon Wives costars for fueling the rumors.

“This is a perfect example of the ‘pile on’ tactic these women use when someone is already down in the public eye,” she wrote. “They ALL gave ideas for a cliffhanger, but the way that they relayed this story was as though I just ‘wanted to stage an affair’ out of the blue for fun! No. Not at all what happened, nor would I ever stage anything on my own, unlike some 👀.”

The rumors about Demi and Dakota began when Mikayla Matthews and Jessi Ngatikaura claimed during a May episode of “The Viall Files” that Demi had a plan to stage an affair with Dakota as a story line for the season 1 finale.

“In the conversation we had in our little MomTok meeting, there was a little blowup between Taylor and Demi,” Mikayla, 25, claimed. “’Cause Demi was wanting to have a huge finale for season 1 and she was like, ‘We could make up this whole thing like I have an affair with Dakota.’ … And everyone was like, ‘Oh, that’s a weird thing to say.’”

That same month, Mayci, 30, and Layla Taylor appeared on “The Viall Files” and weighed in on Mikayla’s claims.

“I think that we were all very confused on why that even went into her head as something that would be OK on [husband] Bret [Engemann’s] end, on Dakota’s end, on Taylor’s end, on her end,” Layla, 24, claimed. “It was just very interesting.”

Mayci, 30, added that while the moment didn’t make it into season 2, it was “talked about” among the women.

“Taylor brought it up and was like, ‘It was weird that you wanted to do that.’ And Demi was basically saying it wasn’t weird,” Mayci said. “She was like, ‘And you guys can back me up on that.’ And me and Jessi were like, ‘I did think it was a little weird.’ I wouldn’t want that perception, to be honest.”

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has featured Taylor, 30, and Dakota’s tumultuous relationship over the years. After Dakota allegedly cheated on Taylor in season 2, the pair split for good.

During season 3, Demi and Jessi, who were close friends at first, had a falling out. The women have since been in an ongoing feud. This season, Demi and Bret made headlines for their private sexual act that’s been referred to as “fruity pebbles.” While the act wasn’t explained on screen, Jessi, 33, took to social media to reveal the meaning after Demi made a dig at her.

“Since she wants to be petty and be an a**hole, I think I am just going to go ahead and say that grandpa Bret likes to drink her piss like it is dirty soda,” Jessi alleged via Instagram Stories this month. “He gulps it down like water. And that is what fruity pebbles means.”

Demi addressed Jessi’s claims in a statement, writing, “What my husband and I did one time behind closed doors was a consensual and private experience in our marriage. I won’t let a private act between my husband and I be a distraction from a serious act that I did not consent to.”