GIN NOT GUNS –
June 4, 2025 – While fans of the show have heard mention of Dakota’s previous addiction on the show, he takes it back to where it all began — when he was a 17-year-old basketball player looking for something to help him manage his knee pain. The Mormon Wives star is opening up about his first marriage and grappling with addiction from teenager to adulthood.
Dakota “had no idea” what the pills were, but he took them. “Then I went and practices, and I remember I had zero pain. It was the best thing in the world,” he recalled.
Dakota sought out more pills, finding out that they were prescription painkillers. He didn’t see what he was doing as problematic because, “It was a pill and I didn’t see, I think, the bad side of that in that way,” he explained.
