The Hulu reality show “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” follows a group of Mormon mothers as they’ve risen to fame on TikTok, with plotlines revolving around who’s in and who’s out in the group they’ve dubbed “MomTok.” But Season 3 took a more serious turn when it focused on one of the stars, Demi Engemann, accusing another reality star, Marciano Brunette, of sexual assault. Engemann said that while appearing on “Vanderpump Villa,” the reality show Brunette is on, he touched her against her consent. She repeated this accusation multiple times across social media and in interviews, calling Brunette a sexual predator and saying she suspected others would come forward.
Brunette responded by filing a lawsuit against Engemann and Jeff Jenkins Productions, a producer of the show, saying Engemann reframed a consensual encounter as sexual assault after receiving backlash for her conduct on “Vanderpump Villa” and that Jeff Jenkins Productions “amplified the same accusations for profit.”
