{"id":49675,"date":"2025-07-08T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/49675\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:14:11","slug":"jax-taylor-regrets-enraged-reaction-to-brittany-cartwright-hookup-with-his-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/49675\/","title":{"rendered":"Jax Taylor Regrets Enraged Reaction to Brittany Cartwright Hookup With His Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          &#8216;The Valley&#8217; Jax Taylor<br \/>\n                          Blames Brittany Breakup on Hookup With His Friend<br \/>\n                          &#8230; Regrets Violent Reaction<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published July 8, 2025 10:38 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/01ff823488b64917b16a5f91145b6366_md.jpg\" alt=\"jax-taylor-rage-fallout-kal-07-08-2025\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    We\u2019re Out of Time with Richard Taite Podcast<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jax-taylor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jax Taylor<\/strong><\/a> claims the reason his relationship with estranged wife <strong>Brittany Cartwright<\/strong> ended is because she slept with his friend &#8230; but now his main focus is to be the person she wants him to be, for the benefit of their young son <strong>Cruz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Jax says in a new podcast interview &#8230; if he could go back and change one thing in his life, it would be the way he handled his reaction &#8212; throwing furniture in a violent fit &#8212; to finding out Brittany had a fling with his friend while they were separated.<\/p>\n<p>Catch these clips &#8230; TMZ obtained an exclusive first look at Jax&#8217;s appearance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7gof4ycVtV1LTYnrIyX4KS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;re Out of Time&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> podcast with addiction and recovery specialist <strong>Richard Taite<\/strong> &#8212; and Taite did not hold back on giving &#8220;The Valley&#8221; star some heavy advice.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jax dives into the details of his freak-out on Brittany when he found out the shocking news of his wife hooking up with his own friend &#8230; explaining drugs and alcohol made him see red. He talks about how his son will obviously find out about the whole thing one day &#8212; but he says for now, it&#8217;s important Brittany sees him as a good father to their child.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9f3ebd838759482698c072ef60e7a515_md.jpg\" alt=\"jax-taylor-confront-behavior-kal-07-08-2025\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    We\u2019re Out of Time with Richard Taite Podcast<\/p>\n<p>Taite &#8212; the founder and former CEO of celebrity rehab center Cliffside Malibu, and current executive chairman of <a href=\"https:\/\/carraratreatment.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Carrara Treatment Wellness &amp; Spa<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; points out the various hookups Jax had during his relationship with Brittany, which Jax excuses as a way to get back at Brittany for getting with his friend.<\/p>\n<p>Jax says his initial thought was &#8220;How could this be happening to me? I&#8217;m Jax Taylor!!!&#8221; He says because she was sleeping with a man who was no stranger to the group &#8212; for months &#8212; he wasn&#8217;t sure who to be mad at &#8230; but ultimately landed on himself for pushing her away.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250304_05f04462165347a6927cad647a84e205\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:cd564157-6768-4727-9933-0d99dd2ffcad\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/05f04462165347a6927cad647a84e205_md.jpg\" alt=\"jax taylor and son\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asked about the status of their relationship now, Jax says it&#8217;s &#8220;getting there&#8221; &#8230; Taite says all Brittany wants is consistency, and if he doesn&#8217;t put in effort now, it won&#8217;t last &#8212; and Jax will die alone.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ broke the story &#8230; Brittany <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2024\/08\/27\/vanderpump-rules-brittany-cartwright-files-divorce-jax-taylor\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2024\/08\/27\/vanderpump-rules-brittany-cartwright-files-divorce-jax-taylor\/\"><strong>filed for divorce<\/strong><\/a> from Jax in August 2024 after 5 years of marriage &#8212; and the former couple is currently living separately while co-parenting their son.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250708_8c2d78cd79364efba6a2e96d1f158955\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:cd564157-6768-4727-9933-0d99dd2ffcad\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/8c2d78cd79364efba6a2e96d1f158955_md.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Taite sub getty swipe\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard ends by offering a referral, but Taylor admits he doesn&#8217;t have success with female therapists. Taite says that&#8217;s because Jax treats women &#8220;like sh*t,&#8221; and he needs to deal with that. Taite clarifies Jax&#8217;s prior fit of rage and his treatment of women was simply his previous behavior &#8212; not a definition of who he is as a person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Valley&#8217; Jax Taylor Blames Brittany Breakup on Hookup With His Friend &#8230; Regrets Violent Reaction Published July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-49675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114819685789385881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}