The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Miranda McWhorter was ordered to pay a five-figure debt after she allegedly blew off a lawsuit, Us Weekly can exclusively report.
Us obtained the default judgment for $12,849 entered against McWhorter on August 21 in the Utah court. The bank demanded that fees and interest be added to the principal, and the court signed off on the request.
Discover Bank filed the lawsuit in September 2024 over an alleged unpaid bill of $12,409.27. In court documents, lawyers for the bank claimed that “although demand has repeatedly been made up [McWhorter], payment has not been made on [the] account.”
The lawyer for Discovery alleged, “As a result of services provided at [McWhorter’s] request, [Discover] established an account with [McWhorter]. [McWhorter] defaulted on the account by failing to make payments as they became due.”
Discover attached a copy of McWhorter’s bill, which showed the reality star opened her account in 2018.
Per court documents, McWhorter was served with the legal documents at a four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 2,895-square-foot home in South Jordan, Utah, worth an estimated $571,000, on February 8 at 12:46 p.m.
McWhorter’s then-husband called the process server in January to tell them they were working with a debt relief company to handle the debt. Despite the claim, neither responded to the case in court.
McWhorter was married to her ex-husband, Chase McWhorter, from 2017 until they split in 2024 after seven years of marriage. The exes share a son, Brooks, and a daughter named Cohen.
Chase told Us in September 2024 that he had a good coparenting relationship with Miranda.
“I think we both realized that we’d gotten married a little prematurely, and that’s why our relationship still is pretty, good 1765237574, like, we’re really cordial, really friendly,” Chase explained. “[I] still chat with her a lot, whenever she drops the kids off, and vice versa. … I think it’s working out really well, and we’re kind of figuring out how to continue navigating that in a positive way.”
Miranda claimed she was approached for season 1 of Mormon Wives but turned it down before deciding to join in season two.
Chase told Us that he decided to join after stepping back from the church.
“That was the sole reason I was embarrassed to be a part of the first place was the optics,” he told Us. “It was a learning experience, for sure, and looking back, we could have gone about it a lot of different ways.”
Chase also addressed the infamous “swinger parties” that Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul spoke out on MomTok in 2022, which led to the group going viral.
He explained to Us, “It all started during Covid. … [It was] a bunch of our friends coming — couples — and then we’d all get trashed on alcohol and then, like, these games would come up. Spin the bottle or whatever.”
He claimed that both he and Miranda were “there participating in some of the party games,” but was adamant, “It was never predetermined that we were going to be doing, like, swinging.”
“That’s what we always thought was a little bit misrepresented in Taylor’s story, as she presents it,” he told Us.
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