Doug Mason is finally pulling back the curtain on Taylor Frankie Paul’s Bachelorette season, the one ABC shelved days before its March premiere. On the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, Doug, 28, described meeting Taylor’s three kids during filming as a genuine but emotionally heavy experience. He said he mentally prepared to be fully in her life, and called meeting her ex Tate Paul off camera the most exhausting week mentally of his life. His take on the kids themselves:“Kids are crazy. Kids are so fun.”
Context matters here. Taylor’s season never made it to air amid a domestic violence investigation into her and ex Dakota Mortensen. The Salt Lake County DA declined to press charges, and both denied the allegations. Meanwhile, Taylor’s personal life has stayed busy: custody battles, three kids (Indy, 9, Ocean, 6, and Ever, 2), and an engagement to Doug that she ended after having doubts, which fans watched unfold on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
So Doug went through an entire journey, an engagement, and a breakup, and none of it aired. Still, he insists he was“extremely genuine”through all of it. Does that make it more heartbreaking, or are you glad it stayed off TV? Sound off in the comments.
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