Secret Lies of Mormon Wives’ Whitney Talks Decision to Leave MomTok

Stepping away from MomTok wasn’t a choice that The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt took calmly.

“I believe so many issues had led as much as it,” Whitney, 31, informed Us Weekly completely forward of the present’s premiere. “I don’t suppose it was only one factor the place I used to be like, ‘I don’t need to be part of this anymore.’ It was a choice that I didn’t take calmly.”

By the season 1 finale of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Whitney introduced that she and her husband, Conner Leavitt, expect their third child. The Hulu star additionally stated that she was leaving the MomTok group, which incorporates costars Jennifer Affleck, Mikayla Matthews, Taylor Frankie Paul, Layla Taylor, Mayci Neeley, Demi Engemann and Jessi Ngatikaur.

Since asserting her departure from the group, Whitney admitted to Us that she’s “positively reconnected” with just a few of the ladies. “A few of them I’ve not,” she added.

On the time, Whitney hadn’t seen the Hulu present, which premiered on Friday, September 6. Her resolution to return for a potential second season is contingent on what she watches.

“I don’t know [if I’ll return],” she shared. “I need to see the present first after which we’ll see.”

Whitney and Connor made waves in the course of the first episode of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives after they returned to Utah following a two-month keep in Hawaii. Initially, it was framed that Taylor’s public admissions that some members of MomTok have been soft-swinging had precipitated them to briefly relocate. Then, Whitney revealed Connor had a porn habit and was on Tinder.

As for the place she and Taylor, 23, stand now? The 2 are in a great place.

“I simply noticed her yesterday and we have been speaking about how we’re nearer now than we have been earlier than,” she shared with Us of their friendship. “Which is nice.”

With all of the ups and downs on the present, Whitney admitted that she had some bother being on digicam on a regular basis. Sharing the “very weak” elements of her life was probably the most tough half, Whitney defined.

“Actual issues which have occurred in my life, sharing them for — I assume — the entire world to see. I don’t know the way individuals are going to understand it or take it,” she stated. “That was most likely the toughest for me.”

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is now streaming on Hulu.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi