Mormon Wives’ Mayci Neeley on Boyfriend’s Death, Car Crash

By the time Mayci Neeley appeared on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, she’d already faced some of the most difficult chapters of her life, including the death of her boyfriend Arik Mack.

As the Hulu star shared in her memoir Told You So, released Oct. 7, Arik was killed in a car accident in March 2015 when they were both 19 years old. At the time of the crash, Arik was texting Mayci, who was 14 weeks pregnant with their son Hudson, apologizing for cheating on her.

“The day my boyfriend dies, he texts me to say he’s sorry,” Mayci recalled in Told You So. “He loves me. He’ll never forgive himself for hurting me while I’m pregnant with his baby. Arik’s text ends with a typo. A singular letter J.”

It wasn’t until a few hours later, while scrolling on Instagram, that she learned of Arik’s death. According to a March 2015 article published by local Utah outlet KSL, citing highway patrol, a Honda Element “crossed the center divider,” hitting a westbound semitruck head-on. Arik died at the scene.

The tragedy was one of the hardest topics for Mayci to write about in her memoir.

“I do still have that grief,” she told E! News in an exclusive interview, “and it’s a part of me, regardless of writing it or not.”