Breakout reality star Aspyn Ovard made the heartbreaking announcement that her young daughter is battling terminal cancer.
The content creator tearfully discloses the news in the first episode of Hulu’s “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County,” which premiered Thursday.
“Everything happened just so out of nowhere,” she says in a confessional. “One day she was OK and the next day she wasn’t.”
In the episode, Ovard — who has three daughters and did not specify which one is sick — opens up about the moment she and her ex-husband, Parker Ferris, received the devastating news that every parent dreads.
“At the hospital, we were like, ‘It has to be fine,’” she recalls. “You can’t fathom they’re actually gonna tell you that your baby has cancer, and that it’s terminal and she could be gone in a month.”
The YouTuber, who is now openly in a throuple with a married couple, adds they have been living in fear of losing their daughter for “over three years” now.
While Ovard shares that her daughter recently had “another stable scan” in a later episode, she also says it’s “unusual for a child with this kind of cancer to have this much time,” but does not provide further details on the diagnosis.
Ovard, 30, and Ferris, 31, met in high school. He proposed in 2015 when Ovard was 19 and he was 20.
They share daughters Cove, 7, Lola, 5, and Elle, 2.
After filing for divorce in 2024, Ovard began dating married couple Bri and Billy Davis. The trio are seen above in an October Instagram post. Instagram/aspynovardThe reality star filed for divorce in April 2024 after learning that Ferris had been secretly drinking alcohol behind her back for years. She submitted the paperwork on the same day that she announced she had given birth to baby No. 3.
Ovard strongly opposes drinking because her father struggled with — and, eventually, died from — alcoholism.
In her confessional, she admits her marriage was “nowhere near in a place” to survive their daughter’s cancer diagnosis.
“We weren’t even going to make it through before this happened,” she explains. “It’s just so toxic and hard and through all of it I feel like I still just tried to take care of him because I know how hard he’s grieving.”
During a tense therapy scene, Ovard tells her ex-husband that she is “trying to make as much money as possible” so neither of them has to work when they are “grieving like no human should.”
In Episode 2, Ovard says she refrains from talking about her daughter with the other women in the “Mormon Wives” spinoff cast — many of whom are also parents — because it’s “triggering and traumatizing.”
“I’ve set boundaries from the beginning,” she explains. “If I make an effort to put myself out there and do things and be around people, I just want to be distracted and I want to feel as normal as I can because I don’t ever get to feel that way anymore.”
“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County” Season 1 is currently streaming on Hulu.
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