After celebrating 100 days of sobriety, Jax Taylor took Us through what a typical day in rehab looked like.
“The place was really, really nice. It was fully catered. The therapists there are amazing,” Taylor, 45, exclusively shared in Us Weekly‘s cover story about Psyclarity Health Los Angeles. “I would get up in the morning. I would have my breakfast and I would do yoga outside.”
Taylor would complete two one-hour therapy sessions before a break.. “I would then have a snack or something to eat for lunch. Then we’d go back into another session,” he said.“I would meet a doctor before going to the gym [in the afternoon].”
The reality star recalled getting frustrated with some of the guidelines. “I’d have to have a nurse follow me to the gym, which is f—ing embarrassing,” he admitted. “She would literally walk around the gym with me while I was working out.”
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“Then I would come back [to my room], take a shower, go to therapy again and go meet the doctors to make sure my medication was working,” he continued. “I would go have dinner, watch a movie and then I would stay in my room most of the time. I had my own room and I would just watch TV, read books and that was basically my day.”
The priority in the facility was introducing a routine.
“That was every single day. So Monday through Sunday, we would have no days off,” Taylor told Us about the “hard” therapy sessions. “There’s just a lot of bad habits I got into in this industry. I created so many bad habits. I adapted so many bad habits. Living here, I was just not a very good person. … I would just lie to get myself out of situations. I didn’t care what I told anybody. I was just so selfish. This was in the beginning and then I just went back into it again.”
Taylor checked himself into a mental health facility in 2024. He recently revealed that he has been battling substance abuse issues, including abusing cocaine, for more than two decades.
“I’ve been in and out of using cocaine for awhile. I wouldn’t use it every single day. There would be months I would take off,” he explained to Us. “And then I would do it like a week here, maybe two times a month or three times a month. It got really bad though. When the divorce started [with my estranged wife Brittany Cartwright], I felt like I was doing it recreationally.”
Taylor is still working on himself every day. “I had all these other issues because I’m masking loneliness,” he said. “I’m masking the texting women by doing drugs and drinking alcohol. I have all these other issues. So it’s a slow process, which is hard for me because I always look for the quick fix. This is one of those things in life that it’s not a quick fix. You have to work at it. I’m not used to that.”
He concluded: “This is not gonna work that way. That’s not how addiction, sickness and mental health works. People are like, ‘Jax, you’ve done a lot of freaking damage. Like a lot. And this is just not going to go away anymore. People have had enough.”
For more on Taylor’s journey to recovery, watch the exclusive video above and pick up the latest issue of Us Weekly — on newsstands now.
With reporting by Amanda Williams
