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Whitney Leavitt is squashing rumors about her husband. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives broke her silence on persistent questions on social media about partner, Conner Leavitt 's sexuality, which she attributed to an "out of context" comment made on the first season of the Hulu series.

Whitney Leavitt Addresses Lavender Marriage Rumors

Leavitt on the Oct. Like, trust me. We're good. Everything's fine. The reality star pinpointed a specific scene from the show that she thinks people misinterpreted as the reason for the speculation. She went on, "He was sexually assaulted at a very young age. It's a trauma he's worked through; it's so inspiring.

And I think people kind of took that out of context. The Secret Lives star also addressed the reason why Conner's hair changed so much throughout the show's eight episodes. But, again, we're filming the pilot and then two years later it's the season," she shared, explaining the time jump between the show's first and second conner.

That's not it at all. Whitney said that, in addition to bleaching Conner's hair, they also shaved it in preparation for a hair transplant that he received midway through filming, which viewers saw the results of in the back half of the season. Despite all of the chatter about their relationship since the show premiered, the couple is "in a great place" right now.

It was like, the gay traumatic thing we've gone through in our marriage, and I feel like that was hard to share, but we came out stronger the other end. For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App.