Chase McWhorter Talks Jessi Draper Kiss, Apologizing to Ex Miranda Hope & the Future of 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives'
Chase McWhorter is opening up about his kiss with Jessi Draper.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and member of DadTok was revealed to have kissed his ex Miranda Hope‘s friend last month following her husband filing for divorce.
Now, in a new interview, Chase is getting candid about the whole situation and the future of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives‘ future after production paused amid the Taylor Frankie Paul scandal.
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“We just kissed. Yeah. Really, really, that one got spun out of control, but we just kissed at a party, had a few drinks, it was nothing crazy. People turned it into something that wasn’t,” he said on Boyfriend Material with Harry Jowsey.
“[I'm] in trouble. Back in familiar territory. No. Jessi, obviously with everything going on with the divorce, I think that the whole idea was to just take her out to have fun with some friends at a party downtown, and then had a few drinks and kissed a little bit, but other than that, we’re just friends,” he explained. “She’s going through a lot, so I’m going to make sure I learn my lesson on that. It wasn’t cool to Miranda obviously and got in trouble there. She deserves a lot better. Everyone agrees with that, I think, unanimously, but yeah.”
Chase also talked about how he told Miranda about the kiss and apologizing to her.
“So I told her the next day. I was like, ‘Hey, last night, kind of stupid. Me and Jessi went down to this thing. I wanted to get her out of the house because she’s been going through a lot, and I had a friend’s birthday party and we kissed,’ and she was like, ‘You f-cking idiot,’ and I was like, ‘Yeah,’” Chase shared.
“I mean, that’s a better place to be than a lying idiot, right?” he said after Harry said he was an “honest idiot.” “Because I have been that, too. Maybe that’s where I’ve evolved. It’s just like one step up on the idiot chain. But yeah, I told her. She knew.”
“Yeah. ‘Hey, just so you’re all clued in here,’” he said of how Jessi told Miranda. “Yeah. No. Jessi sent her, I think, a voice note the next day. I was pretty upset about how it went down too. Then eventually some flowers.”
Chase also addressed what’s going on with the Hulu series, which is currently not filming the fifth season after pausing production amid all that’s going on with Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortenson.
“Tough scenario. You wish the best for the kiddos and hope that it all gets worked out as it should,” he said of Taylor and Dakota.
“I mean, I think that’s kind of up in the air at this point. Hoping they do,” he added on if filming will pick back up again. “I think all the other women have a bunch of other great stories and storylines that haven’t been told and I think that’s a great thing they can look into, so I think they should, but we’ll see.”