Bachelorette May Be ‘Over’ for Good After Taylor Frankie Paul Scandal, Former Bachelorette Says
Taylor Frankie Paul’s domestic violence investigation, and the new video, have led to her season of The Bachelorette being canceled, and one alum thinks this has ended the Bachelor Nation reign for good.
The Bachelorette alum Rachel Lindsay, who starred on the show in 2017, believes the franchise is dead now.
Lindsay said on Thursday’s episode of the Bachelor Party podcast: “I think it’s over. I was trying to think of a scenario where it could be different, because this isn’t just, ‘Oh, we put it all on a person. This person did this.’ This is the system that allowed this to happen.”
She added, “The name Bachelorette, Bachelor is tainted at this point. How do you move forward past that? You can’t.”
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If you need a recap on everything that’s happened with Paul, we’ve got you. So, the star of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was charged with numerous offenses in 2025 following a 2023 incident.
Back on Feb. 17, 2023, Paul was arrested after her ex, Dakota Mortensen, called the police on her, claiming she had hit him in front of her two children, whom she shares with her ex-husband, Tate Paul.
Paul was charged with one felony count of aggravated assault and two felony counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child, along with one misdemeanor count each of child abuse and criminal mischief. However, she submitted a plea in abeyance to a third-degree felony count of aggravated assault, and got the other charges dropped to a misdemeanor in exchange for probation for three years.
Then, in March 2026, the infamous video was released that showed Paul putting Mortensen in a headlock as well as throwing metal barstool chairs at him (and inadvertently hitting her daughter in the head with one).
After that, police confirmed there’s an open “domestic assault investigation” between Paul and Mortensen in March 2026, with both claiming domestic violence on both sides.
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