TikTok star Taylor Frankie Paul sat uneasily in her chair during a live interview on ABC's Good Morning America this week, caught between trying to promote her turn in the network's new series of The Bachelorette and addressing fresh domestic violence allegations lodged against her by her ex-boyfriend.
"I'm a person that will always speak my truth. That's what I'm known for. So when the time is right, I will be," the 31-year-old star of Hulu's Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (SLOMW) said.
At the time, ABC was still poised to proceed with the premiere of its flagship dating series on Sunday.
The network had been heavily promoting the show for months, even sending Paul to the Oscars the previous weekend, with the hope that the social media star would revitalise an ageing tentpole franchise.
But those hopes soon turned into regrets, as ABC pulled the plug on Season 22 of The Bachelorette three days before its premiere - a first in The Bachelor franchise's 24-year history.
