Aspyn Ovard reveals the 10-year secret she says led to her divorce from Parker Ferris

After 10 long years, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County star Apsyn Ovard has finally revealed the secret that she claims led to her divorce from ex-husband Parker Ferris. 

After their split in 2024, Aspyn told her followers that she’d decided to divorce Parker after learning he’d been keeping a massive secret from her throughout their whole marriage. And now we finally know what actually happened. 

During the first episode of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, Aspyn Ovard shared that Parker Ferris had been secretly drinking behind her back, and that was what caused her to divorce him. 

He’d apparently been drinking their entire marriage, despite always claiming to be sober. Aspyn shared: “When Parker and I were getting married, we were definitely, I thought, actually, we were on the same page about where we stood with drinking and smoking and things like that. 

“My dad struggled with alcoholism, so the only version of him I knew was like, some level of intoxicated,” she said. “Finding out that Parker had been drinking behind my back for years, it was literally earth-shattering.” She shared that she found out about his drinking just two months after her dad died from alcoholism.

Parker explained in the episode that he’d tried to get Aspyn to try alcohol throughout their marriage, explaining: “She would tell me, ‘If you ever drink, we are getting divorced. She was very ‘Molly Mormon’ in that way.”

During the episode, Aspyn also sadly shared that one of their daughters has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Recalling the moment doctors broke the news, she said: “At the hospital, you’re like, ‘It has to be fine.’ You can’t fathom they’re actually going to tell you that your baby has cancer. And that it’s terminal.”

She also opened up about the uncertainty the family lives with every day. “She could be gone in a month, we don’t know,” she said. “I’ve been living like that for over three years, just having no idea.”

According to Aspyn, the family has been living “scan to scan”, and when the show was filmed their daughter had just had another stable scan.

Aspyn was candid about how the diagnosis affected her marriage. “My marriage was nowhere near in a place to be able to make it through something like this,” she said. “We weren’t even going to make it through before this happened.”

She added that she still looked after Parker through it all. “And through all of it, I feel like I still tried to take care of him because I know how hard he’s grieving,” she said.

In the therapy session, she told him: “You know that I will always take care of you because I always have! When everything goes to s**t, and things get really hard, I don’t want you to have to do anything.”

Later in the series, Parker reveals that doctors have called their daughter a “walking miracle”, because it’s unusual for a child with this type of cancer to have had this much time. 

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