Mormon Wives’ Conner Leavitt Shares He Was Sexually Abused as a Child

After the clip aired, Conner—dad to kids Sedona, 4, Liam, 2, and Billy Gene, 8 months, with Whitney—thanked everyone for “their sensitivity around this topic” and shared that he had a prepared statement for the group since he doesn’t “trust myself or my emotions when talking about this.”

“That was a very difficult part of my past and something I’ve worked hard to heal from,” he read aloud. “And it still hurts. I know so many people carry experiences like that, even though they may not talk about them.” 

“For me, those experiences shaped me and developed really destructive habits, but they don’t define who I am today,” Conner emotionally continued. “What matters is how we grow, how we find resilience and how we support each other moving forward.”

With a note of encouragement, he concluded, “Healing is possible, and your story doesn’t end with what happened to you.”

Conner’s costar Mikayla Matthews, who shared her own abuse story on Mormon Wives, also said that he called and encouraged her to go therapy. 

“I think it really meant a lot to me because I know me and Whitney, we’re going through a lot,” Mikayla explained, referencing her feud with Conner’s wife, “and he still wanted to call me and check in on me and make sure that I knew that I had support from someone that had gone through something similar.”

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