{"id":2361636,"date":"2026-04-06T23:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2361636"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:04:17","slug":"mormon-wives-jessi-draper-discussed-2-unsafe-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mormon-wives-jessi-draper-discussed-2-unsafe-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Wives&#8217; Jessi Draper Discussed 2 \u2018Unsafe\u2019 Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/secret-lives-of-mormon-wives\/\"><i>The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives<\/i><\/a><\/span> star <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/jessi-draper\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Jessi Draper<\/span><\/a><\/strong> is owning up to the mistakes she said she made after two failed marriages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI take full ownership over all the mistakes I\u2019ve made and all the stupid decisions I\u2019ve made, but I am realizing I can\u2019t just get divorced and go live a normal life,\u201d Jessi, 33, shared via an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DWzeRqVkdqQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Instagram<\/span><\/a> video on Monday, April 6. \u201cI\u2019m having so much come to the surface right now, and I have a lot of healing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While filming a video in her car, the Hulu reality star opened up about her mindset weeks after her estranged husband, <strong>Jordan Ngatikaura<\/strong>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/mormon-wives-jordan-ngatikaura-files-for-divorce-from-jessi\/\"><span class=\"s1\">filed for divorce<\/span><\/a> after five years of marriage. (She was also previously married to <strong>Zach Gish<\/strong> from 2014 to 2019.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis is such a weird experience to go through, and I know a lot of you can relate, and it\u2019s the second divorce I\u2019ve been through, which has been awful,\u201d Jessi \u2014 who shares Jagger, 5, and Jovi, 3, with Jordan \u2014 explained. \u201cThey\u2019ve both been very different and doing it with kids is very unique and different from my first situation. I just feel, like, really lost to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/mormon-wives-jessi-claims-jordan-blackmailed-her-more-affair-revelations\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/mormon-wives-jessi-claims-jordan-blackmailed-her-more-affair-revelations\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Mormon Wives\u2019 Jessi Claims Jordan Blackmailed Her, More Affair Revelations<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jessi Ngatikaura made some startling confessions about husband Jordan Ngatikaura including how he blackmailed her after her affair, what they lied about on screen and more. During the Wednesday, November 19, episode of \u201cThe Viall Files\u201d podcast, Jessi, 33, opened up about her relationship with Jordan and shared [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">When opening up to her 1.8 million Instagram followers, Jessi claimed her two marriages \u201cwere emotionally unsafe.\u201d After navigating those two relationships for a combined 10 years, the reality star said she began to learn habits, routines, defense mechanisms \u201cand things that keep you safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s crazy how getting out of that can kind of mess with your head a little bit and make you go a little bit crazy,\u201d she claimed. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m going through that right now. It\u2019s kind of like a purging and a detox of the patterns that I\u2019m used to. I have a lot of patterns that I don\u2019t love. I have a lot of behaviors that I don\u2019t love either, and I\u2019m really trying to work on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jessi confirmed she is going on a four-day therapy retreat, where she plans to mourn what she lost while also healing from her past.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019ve had the darkest days I\u2019ve ever had in the last month and it\u2019s been really rough,\u201d she told her fans. \u201cIt\u2019s normal to feel all over the place and misplaced and sad and then happy and then relieved and then depressed. I\u2019ve felt all of the emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While Jessi has made headlines in recent weeks after she was allegedly spotted <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/mormon-wives-jessi-seemingly-addresses-marciano-rumors\/\"><span class=\"s1\">spending time<\/span><\/a> with <strong>Marciano Brunette<\/strong>, she confirmed in her latest Instagram that she is single and just wants \u201cto have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI want to enjoy life because I haven\u2019t in so long, but I also want to do all of this in the right way, and I want to heal and not make mistakes anymore,\u201d she explained. \u201cThere\u2019s no perfect way to handle divorce \u2026. I\u2019ve received a lot of love and support and I want to thank you for that but I\u2019ve also received a ton of hate and it\u2019s totally warranted. I am trying to get through this the best possible way I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jessi Draper is owning up to the mistakes she said she made after two failed marriages. \u201cI take full ownership over all the mistakes I\u2019ve made and all the stupid decisions I\u2019ve made, but I am realizing I can\u2019t just get divorced and go live a normal life,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2354101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,24122],"class_list":["post-2361636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-reality-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Valleys-Zack-Warns-Theres-More-Amanda-West-Drama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361637,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361636\/revisions\/2361637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}