Taylor Frankie Paul’s Mother’s Day Meltdown + Rihanna’s Sweet New Tattoo + Sex After Kids

We have a lot to talk about, so let's dive into the headlines that made us text each other.

This week-Well, rather this weekend, Taylor Frankie Paul was in the headlines again because she posted a very emotional Mother's Day message that seems to be calling out one of her Secret Lives of Mormon Wives co-star.

Now, Taylor is in the middle of an ongoing custody legal battle with her ex-boyfriend Dakota over their two-year-old son, Ever.

And in the post she talks about feeling betrayed, unsupported, and judged by the people close to her during one of the hardest periods of her life.

The timing was significant because it came just days after the Utah judge granted both Taylor and Dakota mutual protective orders for three years, and slightly increased Taylor's supervised visitation time with their son from eight hours to 12 hours weekly.

And a huge part of this controversy is that Taylor appears to be publicly feuding with her former friend and co-star Michaela Matthews.

Taylor accused her of being a, quote, "snake friend," yikes, abandoning her while she was struggling.

And Michaela has responded to all that with a very lengthy post saying that she needed boundaries and she didn't want to enable harmful behavior, especially when children are involved.

And the broader backdrop of this is pretty messy.

Taylor and Dakota have both accused each other of abusive behavior.

Multiple domestic violence investigations were opened earlier this year.

And of course, there's that leaked footage from a 2023 altercation that reignited public scrutiny.

That fallout has already affected Taylor's career.

ABC pulled her season of The Bachelorette, and production of the season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was temporarily paused.

But the overall tone of her Mother's Day message was basically, "I'm tired of being kicked when I'm already down." So Katie, I wanna know what you think about this.

One thing specifically I want to ask you, because this is what's really hot in the comments section of her post, is people are saying to her, "Go offline.

You're going through a lot.

We want to see you take your life offline and take care of yourself." What is your take on that?

I agree.

I am...

Ugh, I hate to kick a mom when she's down.

Actually, I hate to do this to a woman ever.

But I, I think she needs to take a real, real break from social media.

I also think, here's the most important part of what I want to say.

You can only control yourself.