Miranda McWhorter Spills Her Tea About ‘Mormon Wives’ Swinging Scandal

While followers of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” know all about Taylor Frankie Paul‘s soft-swinging scandal, they’ve solely heard Taylor’s facet of the story. But no have to marvel any longer as Miranda McWhorter, additionally a part of the scandal, has lastly damaged her silence on the state of affairs, as she prepares for her debut on the present’s second season.

Just as season 2 is about to be launched on Hulu, some truths are coming to the floor, getting MomTok followers much more prepared for brand spanking new, bingeworthy episodes and extra drama than season 1 delivered.

Joining the MomTok crew for season 2, Miranda is not any stranger to the group’s drama. In truth, she’s the middle of 1 large drama that unfolded in season 1 with Taylor. (Miranda is the opposite a part of Taylor’s soft-swinging scandal.) Up till lately, followers have solely heard Taylor’s facet of the story, however now Miranda is talking up.

Miranda was Taylor‘s bestie earlier than the swinging occurred, and avid viewers of the present are prepared for her to shake issues up within the anticipated second season.

Miranda lately spoke to PEOPLE about becoming a member of the present and the swinging scandal entered the chat.

“I think that within the show and within Mormonism, the fact of the matter is that we’re being forthcoming about those skeletons,” she advised PEOPLE. “They can only be obviously hard to talk about. Me personally, obviously it took me time to be open about all of that, but I think it shows that you can be open and honest, whether or not you’re judged.”

She continued, “That’s something that you can still lean into your authentic self and not have to care so much if you’re judged. You can still be religious or you can not be religious, and it doesn’t really matter either way.”

Miranda defined in her introduction on the present that it is simpler for her to talk her reality now that the connection along with her ex-husband Chase McWhorter is finished. And she is aware of she’s received some work forward of her to “win these girls over.”

“What I really am craving and wanting back is that support and that friendship, but I know that I’m going to kind of have to win these girls over, and I get it,” she stated. “But I for sure feel like I’m walking into a lion’s den.”

After such a public scandal, the 2 mates had some repairing to do to their friendship.

“I think people forget our friendship was way prior to our scandal, if you will,” Taylor advised PEOPLE. “It was four years of all the time, always together, phone calls, everything. We were closer, I’d say, than our families – hanging out more.”

Emotions ran excessive after the scandal and tore the 2 mates aside.

“I think a lot of Taylor’s frustrations were with me not being totally authentic and truthful,” Miranda defined. “I was just like, ‘Well, everyone wasn’t hooking up with everyone,’ and I just left it at that. I get why that would feel unfair to her. I think there was a lot of fear, guilt, and shame that played a role in that for me, things that I needed to address in my personal life between my marriage, my religion, all of that.”

Miranda additionally defined that she’s “unpacked” it throughout time.

“I think over time as I unpacked that individually, it allowed me to unpack that more publicly, and obviously, with Taylor, as well,” she stated. “I can’t speak for her, but I feel like me finally addressing that, and also her addressing the hurt aside from the swinging thing, was probably very validating for us both.”

In a video shared by PEOPLE, Taylor and Miranda sat collectively to share perception into the swinging scandal and their friendship. Taylor stated they have been going to “come together from different perspectives” to share extra of the story.

“I think when you come to terms with something that’s part of your reality, part of your story, I don’t think that there’s so much concern about it being maybe part of your identity sometimes,” Miranda stated. “I think for me, yes, I don’t want my story or who I am to be the swinging thing. I would hate for that to be the case, obviously, there’s a lot more to me than that, but it is part of my story.”