Maureen Callahan

Paul and Mr. Mortensen's, Mr. Mortensen, excuse me, were the subjects of a domestic violence investigation by the police in Draper, Utah.

After an encounter, oh, another encounter last month, New York Times, you guys, these reporters, Reggie and Shivani, find another word for encounter in your Google bar, search thesaurus, search encounter and thesaurus, search assault and thesaurus.

Every word matters.

So after establishing that ABC knew, the network needed a ratings win, though.

The story continues.

And Ms.

Paul had more than 7 million followers across Instagram and TikTok after starring in Hulu's Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

Then TMZ published

the video of the 2023 assault on Thursday.

Again, this is not something that TMZ just got on Thursday.

This assault video has been making the rounds for at least a couple of years.

Over at New York Magazine's Vulture, let's take a look over there.

This is their updated version, I believe.

new phone footage leaked to TMZ appears if this better be a legal note.

And if you know what, if legal came to me, I get legal all the time in books, in columns.

And sometimes my editors will come to me and say, legal would prefer this.

And there are times I absolutely push back and say, why?

And there are times I win those fights.

appears to show Paul putting Mortensen in a chokehold.

Hey, if Taylor Frankie Paul hasn't said that's the work of AI, that video shows her putting Mortensen in a chokehold.