Mormon Wives’ Dakota Mortensen Explains How He Ended Up With Layla Taylor’s Cartier Ring for Ex

After Layla Taylor fought to retain the pricey Cartier ring she purchased for ex-boyfriend Mason McWhorter, her Secret Lives of Mormon Wives costar Dakota Mortensen is somehow now in possession of the bauble.

“[I] shouldn’t have this, I have no reason having a ring like this in my life,” Dakota, 33, quipped in a Friday, September 25, Instagram video, addressing his ownership of the silver band. “I go to this scene [and] I can’t remember who gave me the ring … to give it to Layla.”

Layla, 25, revealed in Mormon Wives season 5 that she purchased a luxe Cartier ring for Mason, also 25, while they were in a relationship. After the now-exes split in February, the content creator asked to have the jewelry piece returned.

As for Dakota, he claimed on Friday that he attempted to hand over the ring during a Mormon Wives scene that was ultimately cut from the hit Hulu series.

“She goes, ‘I don’t want the ring,’” he alleged. “I was like, ‘OK, well, what do you want me to do with it?’ And she was like, ‘I don’t care, you can have it [or] pawn it off. Whatever you want. I don’t want it.’”

Dakota, who asserted that he’s “not a big ring person,” decided to store the Cartier accessory inside a drawer at his house for safekeeping.

“It sits in my drawer … for months,” he added. “One time I was going through my drawer, cleaning it out [and] found the ring. I was like, ‘Huh? You know what?’ [I] put it on, popped it on my finger and then I was like, ‘I actually don’t mind it, pretty cool ring.’”

Dakota further stressed that he did not steal Layla’s ring and would be willing to return it to the MomTok star.

“I’m taking very good care of the ring, OK?” he stated. “But, Layla, if at any point, you guys want this ring back, you just let me know. It is yours, but for now, I will keep very good care of it, you have my word.”

Layla, who has not publicly shared whether she wants the ring back, publicly came out as bisexual in June and is now dating a woman.