Aspyn Ovard Says Daughter Has Terminal Cancer in Mormon Wives Premiere

Ovard broke the news during a confessional interview on the Hulu show, which debuted Nov. 12. Crying, she described how suddenly the illness arrived: things were fine one day, she said, and not the next. She said doctors told her the cancer is terminal and that her daughter could be gone in a month, adding that she has lived with that uncertainty for more than three years.

The 7, 5 and 2-year-old girls Ovard mentioned — Cove, Lola and Elle — are the daughters she shares with ex-husband Parker Ferris. She did not identify which of the three is battling the disease. Ovard and Ferris met as Utah high school sweethearts and wed in 2015, when she was 19 and he was 20.

According to Ovard, the marriage was already failing before their child's diagnosis landed. She said the relationship was nowhere near strong enough to survive something of that magnitude, and that it wasn't going to last even before the news broke. She called the marriage toxic and hard, and said she still tried to look after Ferris because she recognized how badly he was grieving.

She filed for divorce in 2024, on the same day she announced the arrival of the couple's youngest daughter. Months later, on the “Weekly Trash” podcast, she cast doubt on ever marrying again, saying she doesn't believe in the concept of marriage anymore and would only want a long-term partner. She said the legal side is too difficult to untangle and that she couldn't commit to those vows again.

Ovard has since gone public with a new relationship: she's dating Bri Davis and Billy Davis, a married couple.