Aspyn Ovard has revealed that Parker Ferris, 31, concealed a decade of drinking from her before their marriage ended.
Ovard, 30, made the disclosure during Thursday’s Season 1 premiere of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County,” explaining that the discovery shattered her trust in the person she considered her safest refuge. She filed for divorce from Ferris on April 1, 2024 — the very same day they welcomed daughter Elle, now 2 — though she kept the true cause private until now.
“Finding out that Parker had been drinking behind my back for years, it was literally earth-shattering,” Ovard said in a confessional filmed for the series. “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 timing compounded the trauma. Ovard’s father had died from alcoholism just two months before she uncovered Ferris’s secret, making the betrayal cut even deeper. “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,” she continued.
Ovard grew up with the shadow of her father’s addiction. “My dad struggled with alcoholism, so the only version of him that I knew was some level of intoxicated,” she explained. She recalled how the sound of her late father’s “work boots was a dark cloud over the house” when he came home, a childhood imprint that made sobriety a non-negotiable boundary in her own marriage.
From the start, Ovard believed she and Ferris shared that conviction. When they wed in 2015, she thought they “were on the same page about where [they] stood with drinking and smoking.” Ferris himself confirmed in a separate confessional that she had issued an ultimatum early on.
“There were a few times during our marriage that I’d be like, ‘Hey, let’s experiment. Let’s try a drink,'” Ferris recalled. “And she would tell me, ‘If you ever drink, we are getting divorced.'” He admitted he chose to drink anyway because it was “fun.”
The exes share three children: Cove, 7, Lola, 5, and Elle, 2. Ovard has since moved on romantically, entering a throuple with partners Bri and Billy Davis after meeting Bri on social media in 2025.
The premiere delivered another devastating revelation beyond the marriage’s collapse. Ovard shared that one of her daughters is battling terminal cancer, a diagnosis that came without warning. “Everything happened just so out of nowhere. One day she was OK and the next day she wasn’t,” she told viewers. “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.”
