{"id":48962,"date":"2026-03-17T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=48962"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:04:07","slug":"mormon-wives-demi-finally-responds-to-rumours-she-met-bret-when-she-was-nine-and-he-was-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/03\/17\/mormon-wives-demi-finally-responds-to-rumours-she-met-bret-when-she-was-nine-and-he-was-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Wives’ Demi finally responds to rumours she met Bret when she was nine and he was 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mormon Wives’ Demi and her husband Bret have a whopping 16 year age gap between them, and now she’s addressed rumours they met when she was nine and he was her babysitter.<\/p>\n

It seems like Demi accidentally started the rumour in 2023 herself on TikTok, as she posted: “I knew him through a family friend growing up, but he was so much older than me, so when I was nine years old, he was married to his first wife and having babies. I was very aware of his existence. I thought he was so cute, like an innocent little girl crush.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Via Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The timeline was then reportedly established that Demi and Bret first met when she was nine and he was her babysitter, with the Mormon Wives star addressing all the rumours during an appearance on the I Do podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This timeline went on to be reported by People, which helped it go viral earlier this year. Somehow, the idea that Bret was Demi\u2019s babysitter around this time got thrown into the rumor mill as well, but Demi shut it all down during her March 15 appearance on the I Do, Part 2 podcast.<\/p>\n

She clarified: “We did not know each other when I was nine years old. I met Bret when I was 21 years old at our good family friend\u2019s funeral. I\u2019m kind of to blame for that rumour. Because it was the satire time of TikTok where people are just going after our age gap relationship. So then we just play into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Via Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She explained that she didn’t expect her comment to get so out of hand, saying: “And then he was my babysitter and then he was best friends with my parents. The thing just keeps getting spun and spun.\u00a0 So I take full responsibility for starting that whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: “It\u2019s my job to clear it up. We met when I was a beyond legal adult and we both were married to different people. It was not at all what people are saying on the internet. \u2026 It\u2019s so wild to think about because there\u2019s so many connections [between us] but I genuinely never met Bret until that funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n

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