Aspyn Ovard Reveals 10-Year Secret Behind Parker Ferris Breakup
SLOMWOC’s Aspyn Ovard Reveals 10-Year Secret Amid Parker Ferris Split
Aspyn Ovard is sharing her truth about the end of her marriage to Parker Ferris.
Two years after their divorce, the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County star revealed the infamous “10-year secret” fans have long awaited to learn: the real reason behind her breakup from Ferris.
“Publicly, I'd never shared why we got divorced,” Ovard said on the Nov. 12 premiere of the first season of the Hulu series. “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.”
While the YouTuber—who shares daughters Cove, 7, Lola, 5, and Elle, 2, with her ex—assumed she and Ferris both abstained from alcohol, she learned her then-husband wasn’t being truthful.
“My dad struggled with alcoholism, so the only version of him that I knew was some level of intoxicated,” Ovard recalled. “Whenever he would come home, and just the sound of his work boots, just like a dark cloud, over the house.”
“Finding out that Parker had been drinking behind my back for years, it was literally earth-shattering,” she continued, nodding in agreement when a producer asked if that was the big secret. “He went through so much to hide it from me, and the fact that my husband, who was supposed to be the safest person, would do that to me.”
The 30-year-old became emotional as she shared how learning of Ferris' hidden behavior impacted her, while also revealing how the timing made the situation even more difficult.
As Ovard told the cameras, “For him to know what alcoholism did to my family, to find all of this out two months after my dad died from alcoholism hurt so bad.”
In April 2024, the influencer shocked fans when she filed for divorce from Ferris—whom she married in 2015 when she was just 19 years old—the same day she announced the birth of their third baby.
Following the divorce, Ovard hinted on social media that she uncovered a decade-long secret that led to the dissolution of her marriage, which led to years of speculation and theories from fans about what went wrong.
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And now that the truth is out there once and for all, the mom of three believes fans may be a little disappointed.
“People are going to be underwhelmed with what it is,” Ovard told E! News in an interview during the Mormon Wives’ junket. “But I think seeing him talk about it and then seeing me cry about it, maybe will give some perspective.”
“I’m very curious to see what people will say,” she added, “because I’ve seen some crazy theories and it’s just not that crazy of a thing.”
While time will tell how fans will react, the reality described going through that difficult time as “overwhelming” for her. That said, she’s not sure if she would do anything differently.
“I don’t know if I would handle things the same way if I could go back two years ago and talk about that all again,” Ovard admitted. “There’s no way to really navigate life when you’re just doing it all for the first time.”
For a closer look at Ovard’s love life now amid her relationship with married couple Billy and Bri Davis, along with where her costars stand with their partners, keep reading…
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