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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy dad struggled with alcoholism, so the only version of him I knew was like, some level of intoxicated,\u201d she said. \u201cFinding out that Parker had been drinking behind my back for years, it was literally earth-shattering.\u201d She shared that she found out about his drinking just two months after her dad died from alcoholism.<\/p>\n
Parker explained in the episode that he’d tried to get Aspyn to try alcohol throughout their marriage, explaining: “She would tell me, \u2018If you ever drink, we are getting divorced. She was very \u2018Molly Mormon\u2019 in that way.”<\/p>\n
During the episode, Aspyn also sadly shared that one of their daughters has been diagnosed with terminal cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Recalling the moment doctors broke the news, she said: \u201cAt the hospital, you\u2019re like, \u2018It has to be fine.\u2019 You can\u2019t fathom they\u2019re actually going to tell you that your baby has cancer. And that it\u2019s terminal.\u201d<\/p>\n She also opened up about the uncertainty the family lives with every day. \u201cShe could be gone in a month, we don\u2019t know,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve been living like that for over three years, just having no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Aspyn, the family has been living \u201cscan to scan\u201d, and when the show was filmed their daughter had just had another stable scan.<\/p>\n Aspyn was candid about how the diagnosis affected her marriage. \u201cMy marriage was nowhere near in a place to be able to make it through something like this,\u201d she said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t even going to make it through before this happened.\u201d<\/p>\n She added that she still looked after Parker through it all. \u201cAnd through all of it, I feel like I still tried to take care of him because I know how hard he\u2019s grieving,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n In the therapy session, she told him: \u201cYou 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\u2019t want you to have to do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n Later in the series, Parker reveals that doctors have called their daughter a \u201cwalking miracle\u201d, because it\u2019s unusual for a child with this type of cancer to have had this much time. <\/p>\n For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like <\/i>Reality Shrine<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a> on <\/i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was such a betrayal <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734183,"featured_media":66529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[2284],"class_list":["post-66525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives-orange-county"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/11\/12\/aspyn-ovard-reveals-the-10-year-secret-she-says-led-to-her-divorce-from-parker-ferris\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Aspyn Ovard reveals the 10-year secret she says led to her divorce from Parker Ferris","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/11\/12\/aspyn-ovard-reveals-the-10-year-secret-she-says-led-to-her-divorce-from-parker-ferris\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/11\/12\/aspyn-ovard-reveals-the-10-year-secret-she-says-led-to-her-divorce-from-parker-ferris\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-22-1-150x150.png","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-22-1.png"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ellie Ring"}],"creator":["Ellie Ring"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["the secret lives of mormon wives: orange county"],"dateCreated":"2026-11-12T11:48:25Z","datePublished":"2026-11-12T11:48:25Z","dateModified":"2026-11-12T11:48:25Z"},"rendered":"