Whitney Leavitt Quit ‘The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives’ — And Admits She Only Returned To Star On ‘Dancing With The Stars’

Whitney Leavitt was brutally honest about the real reason why she came back to The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

Leavitt, who was voted back into MomTok at the end of Season 2, was noticeably absent throughout the first half of Season 3. According to her co-stars, when it came time to renegotiate her contract, she allegedly asked for Oscars tickets and a role in a scripted show, which, judging by her lack of screen time in Episodes 1 through 4, she did not get. Leavitt later clarified that while she did not ask for tickets to the Academy Awards show, she did request the acting gig.

“A girl knows what she wants,” she cheekily said in her confessional.

So, what made Leavitt finally decide to come back to The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives in Season 3, Episode 5? “I just found out if I came back to film then I can audition for Dancing with the Stars next week,” she confessed to her non-MomTok friends, Kacie and Kaylee.

“After last season, I did decide to step away from the show but I never quit MomTok,” she explained in her confessional. “I was always and am still part of that group. I just really needed a break. But then I heard from my team that Dancing with the Stars was going to cast someone from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and that’s a motivator. I’ll come back for that.”

Leavitt—who had not talked to most of her co-stars for about two months at the time this was filmed—left the MomTok election in Season 2 feeling “pissed” about the “half-ass vote” she got to be let back into the group. When she reunited with everyone for the first time this season, she tearfully opened up about how “exhausted” she was trying to rebuild friendships in a group that did not welcome her. This time around, Leavitt said she was looking at MomTok as a “business” rather than a “sisterhood.”

When confronted by Taylor Frankie Paul and the rest of the girls about her true intentions behind returning to the group, Leavitt bluntly admitted, “I’m filming because I was offered the opportunity to audition and I’m so excited for one of us to get it. I’m not coming back to the sisterhood. I’m gonna start my own MomTok and hopefully find a space that I feel welcome in.”

As we know, Leavitt and Jen Affleck were the two Secret Lives of Mormon Wives stars chosen to compete in Dancing with the Stars Season 34. Affleck, who was partnered with Jan Ravnik, was eliminated from the competition during Halloween week, while Leavitt, who is partnered with Mark Ballas, is still going strong in the competition, which comes to a close next week.

Will this season of Mormon Wives ruin any good will she’s earned on Dancing with the Stars? Or will her brutal honesty motivate more fans to vote for her? We’ll just have to wait and see!

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 3 is currently streaming on Hulu.