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Jessi Draper Sends Flowers After Kissing Ex’s Wife

Even as The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul has been engulfed in controversy, her costars have been ramping their own drama.On Thursday, i...

Jessi Draper Sends Flowers After Kissing Ex’s Wife
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Bintano News

March 27, 2026

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Even as The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul has , her costars have been ramping their own drama.

On Thursday, it was reported that one of the show's stars, Jessie Draper, had made the cast dynamics supremely awkward by allegedly kissing the ex-husband of her costar Miranda Hope, 27.

And the tension between the stars seemingly ratcheted up when Hope revealed on Instagram that her costar had sent her flowers as a peace offering. 

According to Us Weekly, a source claimed that Draper, 33, locked lips with Hope's ex, Chase McWhorter, at a birthday party that took place just days after Draper's husband, Jordan Ngatikaura, filed for divorce.

'They were having fun at a party and it’s not serious between them,' the insider said.

The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Draper and Hope for comment. 

Even as The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul has been engulfed in controversy, her costars have been ramping their own drama after Jessi Draper (pictured in January in Hollywood) reportedly kissed fellow costar Miranda Hope's ex-husband at a party

According to Us Weekly , a source claimed that Draper, 33, locked lips with Hope's ex, Chase McWhorter, at a birthday party that took place just days after Draper's husband, Jordan Ngatikaura, filed for divorce; Hope is pictured in May 2025 in LA

The alleged interaction was first reported on by DeuxMoi earlier on Thursday.

An eyewitness told the blog that Draper and McWhorter were seen 'being cozy,' before they were spotted 'kissing' later in the evening as they stood 'in front of a closer group of people' this weekend.

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A source for TMZ also claimed that Draper and McWhorter had never kissed before, describing it as a spur-of-the-moment development. 

McWhorter filed for a temporary restraining order the following day, while Draper filed her opposition to his request on the same day

The conflict between Hope and Draper escalated as their Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives costar Taylor Frankie Paul has found herself in legal jeopardy over allegations of domestic violence that her ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen made relating to incidents in February

The couple — who share two children, a son named Jagger, five, and a daughter named Jovi, three — had documented their marital woes on The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives, and they had already been separated for a year by the time Ngatikaura decided to end things for good.

Hope and her ex McWhorter have been separated for longer, after splitting in 2024 following seven years of marriage.

The conflict between Hope and Draper escalated as their Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives costar Taylor Frankie Paul has .

According to Rich Ferguson, the chief of police in Draper, Utah, the Draper City Prosecutor has now passed on a case to the Salt Lake County District Attorney, Sim Gill.

Chief Ferguson told TMZ on Thursday that it's now up to the Salt Lake County DA to determine if charges will be filed against Paul, 27.

The Daily Mail has reached out to the Draper Police Department and Paul for comment, but has not yet received responses. 

Paul's ex-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, has filed for a protective order in , citing an alleged domestic violence incident that took place in February 2026, which is now at the center of decisions on whether to charge Paul.

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Mortensen had accused the reality star of choking him, before hitting him and shoving him into a window.

The latest development follows ABC's decision to after video of a 2023 domestic violence incident resurfaced, along with police bodycam footage of her subsequent arrest.

Paul is in a particularly precarious position if the Salt Lake County DA should decide to bring charges against her, as she is currently on probation from her 2023 conviction. 

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