The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives‘ Zac Affleck got a little help from Conner Leavitt when addressing those “lavender marriage” rumors.
“When the lavender marriage rumors finally get to you but you have each others backs,” Zac, 28, captioned a TikTok on Thursday, June 19, which featured a transition that showed Conner, 29, with his legs around Zac’s shoulders.
Zac noted that the video was a way to “welcome” Conner to DadTok. Conner replied to the video, writing, “Always hear [sic] for you bro. Day or night.” In response to a fan joking that the video was “giving double lavender marriage,” Zac noted, “Yeah that was the joke lol.”
Conner and his wife, Whitney Leavitt, have leaned into speculation regarding their marriage after The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives premiered in September 2024. During the season 1 premiere, Conner and Whitney, 32, relocated back to Utah from Hawaii after previously leaving when Conner admitted to having a secret Tinder account to solicit NSFW images.
Conner and Whitney, who shared two kids at the time, worked on their marriage and later expanded their family with a third baby.
“It takes time and it takes a lot of work. I remember being in therapy and my therapist asked me, ‘Before we even dive into this, you need to decide is this something you want to work out or something you don’t want to work out?’” Whitney exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2024. “It was something I really had to sit down [and think] ‘Did I want to rebuild this trust?’ That doesn’t mean that things aren’t still triggering to me. When it is, then I’m going to work it out and just keep moving forward.”
Whitney admitted that a lot of the good parts of their marriage didn’t make it on screen.
“There were a lot of powerful moments between Conner and I that weren’t [included] in the season, which is OK — I’m not the editor,” she said on “The Squeeze” podcast that same month. “There’s this moment where we’re filming the pilot and the showrunner asked us about [why] we left for Hawaii and it wasn’t this conversation of us bringing this onto the show. It wasn’t some preconceived conversation that Conner and I had.”
Whitney added: “Conner just looked at me and shared everything. It was so vulnerable and so emotional, and so incredibly powerful. I’m so proud of him for that because that needed to be a decision from him not from me.”
The reality star continued to praise Conner for putting in the work.
“He had a porn addiction for a really long time and that was something that was, obviously, really hard to overcome. I didn’t even know that was going on,” she noted. “When you go through something that tough and you come out the other end, man, your relationship is stronger than ever. It sucks, but holy hell, I’m grateful for where we are now.”
After viewers started to speculate about Conner’s sexuality, the pair enjoyed poking fun at the comments on TikTok.
“Do I need to put out a sex tape or something? Trust me, we’re good. Like, everything is fine,” Whitney quipped on the “Off the Vine” podcast in October 2024. “I think it’s because like when we were going through our personal stuff — and I know you haven’t seen it, but he struggled through a porn addiction — and there’s a scene where one of my friends says something along the lines like, ‘Oh, I can see how he was confused sexually.’”
Whitney added that her husband was sexually assaulted at a “very young age” and has “worked through” the trauma, adding that he’s “so inspiring.”
“I think people kind of took that out of context,” she noted at the time.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is currently streaming on Hulu.
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