{"id":49582,"date":"2026-03-25T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=49582"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:46:15","slug":"mormon-wives-jessi-reveals-the-exact-moment-she-told-jordan-she-wanted-a-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/03\/25\/mormon-wives-jessi-reveals-the-exact-moment-she-told-jordan-she-wanted-a-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Wives&#8217; Jessi reveals the exact moment she told Jordan she wanted a divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/03\/20\/um-is-jessi-from-the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives-going-on-dancing-with-the-stars\/\">Jessi Draper<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/03\/24\/omg-a-huge-feud-has-broken-out-between-two-mormon-wives-husbands-and-its-really-messy\/\">The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives<\/a> has opened up about the exact moment she told <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/03\/24\/mormon-wives-chase-breaks-silence-on-the-wild-rumours-jordan-ngatikaura-is-going-to-jail\/\">Jordan<\/a> she wanted a divorce. He filed for divorce in the last week, which Jessi found out he had done through a TMZ report, despite allegedly agreeing to file together.<\/p>\n<p>She recently told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=foJ6Li8_fXg\">Call Her Daddy podcast<\/a>: &#8220;So in the last year, I&#8217;ve told him actually a few different times I wanna get divorced, but he always like, calms me down, &#8216;Give me a few days, let&#8217;s try to work on it.&#8217; He&#8217;s better for a few days and then it goes back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But what happened was, I have been in limbo for a while and anyone that&#8217;s lived in limbo knows it&#8217;s excruciating, where I&#8217;m like, I don\u2019t if this is right or not. I literally woke up one day and I was like, it&#8217;s such a simple thought, but I was like, &#8216;I can change this,'&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Jessi continued: &#8220;I can change my life. I can be happy, it&#8217;s gonna be hard, but I can do this and my life doesn&#8217;t have to be this way.\u201d And it was like, something flipped and I was like, I&#8217;m done. And I could not go back after that. It was the weirdest thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQfpK7zD7Br\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQfpK7zD7Br\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Jessi Draper (@_justjessiiii)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script> She said: &#8220;That feeling came to me on Thursday and I told him the next day. I was getting ready in my closet and I was like, &#8216;I want to get divorced.&#8217; I just said it. And he was like, &#8216;Okay.&#8217; His emotions were like, calm, then mad, and was like, &#8216;You&#8217;re not healed enough.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;That&#8217;s why, like, you can&#8217;t love yourself yet, so you need to figure that out first, and then you&#8217;ll realise this isn&#8217;t what you want.&#8217; And then he was like, &#8216;You&#8217;re cheating on me again.&#8217; I just had to be like, &#8216;Jordan, I&#8217;ve thought about this every single day for the last four years.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m choosing myself. And you know, we fought a little bit, but he finally understood and yeah. I ended up having s** with him because he was like, &#8216;Just one more time, one more time.&#8217; I was like, \u201cOkay, but if I do this doesn&#8217;t change anything.&#8217; Never again,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DPuzQgQjJa5\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DPuzQgQjJa5\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Jessi Draper (@_justjessiiii)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\u00a0They were married for five years, have two children together, one son and one daughter, as well as a child from a previous marriage, and officially married back in October 2020. Jordan told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/03\/19\/jessi-draper-jordan-ngatikaura-files-divorce\/?adid=social-tw\">TMZ<\/a>: \u201cThis has not been an easy decision and it comes with a heavy heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I\u2019m grateful for the shared memories and lessons. While our paths are moving in different directions, my priority remains my children and ensuring they feel loved and protected. I am committed to handling this next chapter with kindness and respect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I kindly ask for privacy and understanding as we navigate this as a family,\u201d Jordan added, just months after they listed their Salt Lake City home and sparked rumours they were splitting. 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