The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives‘ Zac Affleck received somewhat assist from Conner Leavitt when addressing these “lavender marriage” rumors.
“When the lavender marriage rumors lastly get to you however you’ve every others backs,” Zac, 28, captioned a TikTok on Thursday, June 19, which featured a transition that confirmed Conner, 29, together with his legs round Zac’s shoulders.
Zac famous that the video was a solution to “welcome” Conner to DadTok. Conner replied to the video, writing, “At all times hear [sic] for you bro. Day or evening.” In response to a fan joking that the video was “giving double lavender marriage,” Zac famous, “Yeah that was the joke lol.”
Conner and his spouse, Whitney Leavitt, have leaned into hypothesis concerning their marriage after The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives premiered in September 2024. Through the season 1 premiere, Conner and Whitney, 32, relocated again to Utah from Hawaii after beforehand leaving when Conner admitted to having a secret Tinder account to solicit NSFW pictures.
Conner and Whitney, who shared two children on the time, labored on their marriage and later expanded their household with a 3rd child.
“It takes time and it takes a number of work. I bear in mind being in remedy and my therapist requested me, ‘Earlier than we even dive into this, that you must resolve is that this one thing you need to work out or one thing you don’t need to work out?’” Whitney solely instructed Us Weekly in September 2024. “It was one thing I actually needed to sit down [and think] ‘Did I need to rebuild this belief?’ That doesn’t imply that issues aren’t nonetheless triggering to me. When it’s, then I’m going to work it out and simply maintain transferring ahead.”
Whitney admitted that a number of the nice elements of their marriage didn’t make it on display screen.
“There have been a number of highly effective moments between Conner and I that weren’t [included] within the season, which is OK — I’m not the editor,” she stated on “The Squeeze” podcast that very same month. “There’s this second the place we’re filming the pilot and the showrunner requested us about [why] we left for Hawaii and it wasn’t this dialog of us bringing this onto the present. It wasn’t some preconceived dialog that Conner and I had.”
Whitney added: “Conner simply checked out me and shared all the pieces. It was so weak and so emotional, and so extremely highly effective. I’m so pleased with him for that as a result of that wanted to be a choice from him not from me.”
The truth star continued to reward Conner for placing within the work.
“He had a porn habit for a very very long time and that was one thing that was, clearly, actually onerous to beat. I didn’t even know that was occurring,” she famous. “Whenever you undergo one thing that powerful and also you come out the opposite finish, man, your relationship is stronger than ever. It sucks, however holy hell, I’m grateful for the place we are actually.”
After viewers began to invest about Conner’s sexuality, the pair loved poking enjoyable on the feedback on TikTok.
“Do I must put out a intercourse tape or one thing? Belief me, we’re good. Like, all the pieces is ok,” Whitney quipped on the “Off the Vine” podcast in October 2024. “I believe it’s as a result of like after we had been going by means of our private stuff — and I do know you haven’t seen it, however he struggled by means of a porn habit — and there’s a scene the place one among my pals says one thing alongside the traces like, ‘Oh, I can see how he was confused sexually.’”
Whitney added that her husband was sexually assaulted at a “very younger age” and has “labored by means of” the trauma, including that he’s “so inspiring.”
“I believe individuals type of took that out of context,” she famous on the time.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is at present streaming on Hulu.
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