Amid their divorce — and his sobriety journey — Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor are separating their business endeavors starting with their joint podcast.
“I am so excited because I just finished my shoot to do the whole rebrand for ‘When Reality Hits,’” Cartwright, 36, said via Instagram on Sunday, March 9. “I am fully taking it over and I cannot wait for you to see this photoshoot.”
She continued: “This is going to be so much fun. ‘When Reality Hits’ is going to another level and I am so ready for this.”
The former couple launched their podcast in 2023 and continued to collaborate amid their separation one year later. After Cartwright filed for divorce in 2024, she confirmed they would be recording episodes separately going forward. Cartwright’s episodes haven’t been renamed while Taylor, 45, branched out with “In The Mind of a Man” installments.
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright’s Ups and Downs Over the Years
Cartwright’s decision about their professional collaborations comes less than a week after Taylor came clean about his struggles with cocaine.
“I have substance issues — primarily with cocaine. It’s hard to say out loud,” he said on Bravo’s “Hot Mic” podcast. “I’ve been dealing with this on and off since I was 23 and now I’m 45. There were times where I would stop doing it, but then there were times where I’d go heavy on it.”
Taylor acknowledged his ongoing issues with Cartwright. “This year was probably the hardest year of my life,” he detailed. “I’m going through a divorce right now, which is extremely difficult. When Brittany and I separated [in 2024], that’s when the addiction got worse. I’ve been doing it for a long time but the addiction got worse during my divorce and during my separation. I literally lost control. I hit rock bottom and I had to go to rehab.”
Taylor specifically discussed how outside factors caused his marriage to come to an end.
Jax Taylor Through the Years: All the Highs and Lows of ‘The Valley’ Star
“I would store all this anger up throughout the day and then I’d go home for dinner. Who’s in my target line? Brittany. She didn’t do anything. But I’m just so angry with my anger issues that I would just take it out on her and it was not fair. And I knew what I was doing,” he explained. “The only time that Brittany and I really have ever gotten angry is the next day after a bender for me. That’s the only time I’ve ever had a shouting match. I’ve never done a sober shouting match with Brittany ever. But unfortunately, I was doing drugs so much.”
Cartwright offered her side of the story during the Friday, March 7, episode of “When Reality Hits,” saying, “This is horrible, he has not changed. He’s trying to act in public like he’s this mental health advocate and this and that and he’s so much better, and he’s giving all these excuses and doing all these victim mentality things. And I was like, ‘It’s not fair. I am being yelled at, and this is a struggle in my everyday life.’ I was like, ‘Something has to be done.’”
