The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Whitney Addresses Marital Status Issues

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt and her husband, Connor LeavittI feel better than ever after battling porn addiction.

“I love that man,” Whitney, 31, gushed on the Wednesday, Sept. 25, episode of The Squeeze podcast. “There were a lot of powerful moments between Connor and I that didn’t make it into the season, which is OK — I’m not an editor. There’s a moment when we were shooting the pilot and the showrunner asked us (why) we went to Hawaii, and it wasn’t a conversation about us bringing that to the show. It wasn’t some premeditated conversation that Connor and I had.”

She added: “Connor just looked at me and shared everything. It was so vulnerable and so emotional and so incredibly powerful. I’m so proud of him because it had to be his decision, not mine.”

In the first episode This The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Whitney and Connor moved back to Utah with their two kids. As they revealed on the Hulu series, they left town after Connor admitted to setting up a secret Tinder account to solicit NSFW photos.

“He had a long-term addiction to pornography, and it was something that was, obviously, very difficult to overcome,” Whitney said Wednesday. “I didn’t even know it was happening.”

She continued, “When you go through something that hard and you come out on top, man, your relationship is stronger than ever. It sucks at the time, but damn, I’m grateful for where we are now.”

According to Whitney, it took her and her “a lot of time and work” to repair her relationship with Connor. Whitney found out about her husband’s struggles “about two and a half years ago,” she told podcast hosts Taylor and Tay Lautner, six months before the pilot was taped.

“It takes time and it takes a lot of work. I remember I was in therapy and my therapist asked me, ‘Before we even get into this, you have to decide if this is something you want to work on or something you don’t want to work on?’” Whitney recalled. “I never took a step back and thought about it for myself because in Mormon culture, it’s like, ‘No divorce.’”

Initially, Whitney didn’t consider divorce due to the expectations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, until the reality star’s therapist forced her to confront what she really wanted.

“It was something I really had to sit down with (and think), ‘Did I want to rebuild that trust?’ That doesn’t mean that certain things aren’t still triggers for me,” she said. “When they are, I’ll deal with it and just move on.”

Whitney, who is currently pregnant with her and Connor’s third child, has since left the #MomTok group. Speaking to Us Weekly In Whitney’s latest cover story, she said Us, “I don’t know. We’ll see” about a potential return.