Miranda Hope Split From Chase McWhorter in 2024. When Did She File?

Miranda Hope and Chase McWhorter split in 2024. The divorce petition came much later, according to The U.S. Sun, which reported that Hope filed on Sept. 21, 2026, based on court documents it obtained. The report ran on Nov. 9. By the next morning, the former couple had sent TMZ a joint statement joking that they were finally telling the government what everybody else already knew.

That joke gets at the odd thing about the headline. Anyone who heard Hope talk about the split two years ago had good reason to think of the relationship in the past tense. What changed this fall was the reported paperwork. Then came the part a reality-TV audience gets to watch, a public response on TikTok and a joint statement that put its own spin on the news.

From the 2017 wedding to the November report

• 2017. Hope and McWhorter married, according to The U.S. Sun.
• August 2024. Hope spoke publicly about their split. In an interview on the Weekly Trash podcast, she said the problems in their relationship predated the MomTok controversy that fans associated with them.
• Sept. 10, 2026. Season 5 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives premiered on Hulu, with Hope listed in both the cast and executive-producer credits.
• Sept. 21, 2026. The U.S. Sun reported this as the date Hope filed her divorce petition. TMZ separately placed the filing in September.
• Nov. 9–10, 2026. The U.S. Sun published its report on Monday. McWhorter reacted on TikTok that day, according to E! News. On Tuesday, TMZ published the pair’s joint statement.

What Hope had already said in 2024

The August 2024 interview matters because Hope had already given people an account of the breakup in her own words. As E! News reported, Hope told Weekly Trash that the problems went back further than the so-called soft-swinging scandal that had become part of the public MomTok story. She allowed that the controversy may have made things harder, while saying it played no part in the decision to split.

There’s a ready-made version of that story for TV. A controversy happens, a couple splits, and putting the two events next to each other makes the second one look like a consequence of the first. Hope’s answer complicates that sequence. She described trouble that was already there. The controversy is relevant to how the public knew the couple, and her account is the better evidence of what she said about the decision.

The U.S. Sun notes that Hope used the word “divorced” when she described the split in 2024. The document its November story describes is a petition dated this September. For a viewer trying to reconcile the old coverage with the new headline, that word is where the timeline can go sideways. The public description tells you how the relationship was being talked about. The reported date tells you when Hope filed.

Why September shows up twice

Hulu’s press announcement dates the fifth-season premiere to Sept. 10, with all five episodes arriving together. It also lists Hope among the stars and among the executive producers. If you started following her on the show, that billing tells you where she fits in its current run. Hulu’s earlier Season 2 episode descriptions had introduced her arrival as a development in the group. By Season 5, her role was there in the credits.

The petition date reported by The U.S. Sun falls eleven days after that premiere. That proximity makes it tempting to put the dates in the same storyline. But they come from two different sources about two different events. The studio scheduled an episode drop. A reporter later attributed a filing date to court documents. Hulu’s announcement supplies the premiere date. The filing report supplies the other.

That distinction is worth keeping even for people who know the show well. Five episodes arriving at once make it easy to treat what you watched in September as the complete September story. The premiere establishes when viewers got those episodes. For the filing, the date to look at is Sept. 21, and the attribution belongs with it.

The TikTok and the joint statement

McWhorter addressed the news on his own TikTok account on Nov. 9. E! News described the video as a joking response, including a line about winning a war. That phrasing is easy to clip into the start of another feud. The next day brought a statement from both people, and its joke was that the breakup was old news.

In the statement they gave TMZ, Hope and McWhorter called their separation the “worst-kept secret” and said they hoped to put the Ross and Rachel comparisons to rest. That reference is doing work. It treats the idea that fans are still waiting on a reunion as part of the joke, the way an on-again, off-again sitcom couple can outlast the actual story. This time the two people whose relationship is being discussed supplied the punch line together.

The posts and the press statement belong in the account because they show how the news was received in public. They still tell you different things. McWhorter spoke for himself in his video. The TMZ statement carried both names. The court reporting is a third piece of evidence, and the question it answers is narrower than either response. A TikTok can answer a headline without telling you what’s on the docket.

What the filing report establishes

The U.S. Sun’s report describes a petition, and TMZ also reports a September filing. A final order would be a separate development. The available reporting covers the petition and the public responses that followed. The couple’s own humor makes clear that they regard the breakup as old news. Questions about what happened in the case after the petition would need evidence from the case.

If you see the November headline used as the date the couple broke up, go back to Hope’s 2024 interview. If you see the September premiere used to date the paperwork, go back to the reporting on the petition. The reason the story felt familiar by the time it landed on Monday is that the relationship had already been discussed in the past tense for two years. What was new to readers was a date for the filing. The couple saved their sitcom reference for the statement.