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Brittany Cartwright called out estranged husband Jax Taylor in a big way.
The Valley star, 35, took to her Instagram Story on Friday, August 9 after seeing a video of Taylor, 45, promoting his Cameo account. In the clip, he announces his presence on the Cameo app, where you can pay to get video messages from your favorite stars.
“I’m now on Cameo, so hit me up. I’d love to help you guys out. Also, you’re helping me out, because I’ll be donating my money to cancer research. Actually, esophageal cancer, because obviously that is near and dear to my heart, so hit me up. I’d love to shoot you a message,” Taylor said.
Cartwright reposted the video on her Story, adding the caption, “Just realized Jax has this on his cameo and it’s disgusting because he hasn’t donated a dime. FYI @cameo.” She quickly deleted the post, though screenshots had already been taken.
Taylor emphasized esophageal cancer in his video because he lost his father, Ronald Cauchi, to the disease in December 2017. A source allegedly vouched for Taylor, saying that it was a 3-year-old video, and that the reality star has since “attended multiple charities, donating not only his money but his time,” as reported by Page Six.
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The post seemingly activated Bravo fans, who began to recall previous instances when Taylor had lied to people, including his ex. He cheated on her with former co-star Faith Stowers, something that he had initially lied to Cartwright about. He also famously told co-stars on E! series House of Villains that his then-wife had been hospitalized with a stroke.
“I honestly think her breaking point was when he lied about her being hospitalized while he was on House of Villains. She didn’t say much, but said he lied about it, and she had to tell her family and friends that he lied,” a fan claimed, as per Page Six.
Speaking on their When Reality Hits podcast in a December 2023 episode, Cartwright scolded Taylor for speaking “so matter of fact” on the show about her “very, very scary” health experience. She had felt the right side of her body go “completely numb,” saying she “couldn’t even hold” her cell phone up, and was unable to walk. At the time, she defended Taylor, saying he hadn’t been lying, but “was just worried about me.”
Cartwright and Taylor met at a bar in Las Vegas in 2015, after which the former quickly moved from her home in Kentucky to live with the Vanderpump Rules star in Los Angeles. In 2017, they got their own spinoff series, Jax & Brittany Take Kentucky.
The couple worked through cheating scandals and breakups to announce their engagement in June 2018. They bought their first home together the following year, and tied the knot at a castle in Kentucky in June 2019. They welcomed their first child together, son Cruz Michael, on April 12, 2021.
The couple landed a second spinoff in January 2024, but Cartwright announced their separation the following month. Though Taylor denied the separation was a divorce, Cartwright went on to discuss her “relief” at splitting from him at the premiere of The Valley in March 2024.
“Once a woman hits her breaking point, it’s like, ‘Done.’ Something, like, clicked in my head, and I was like, ‘I need to step away from this situation. This is not healthy. This is not a good situation. My son deserves better. I deserve better,'” Cartwright told People.
