Brittany Reveals Jax Did Something "That Should Never Happen in a Marriage"

The Valley’s Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwrightsplit continues to be a hot topic, with the pair recently revealing in new interviews why the married couple of nearly five years parted ways. /span/span/p pspanspanOn Thursday, March 14, 2024, theema href="https://www.bravotv.com/vanderpump-rules" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Vanderpump Rules/a/em alums attended emThe Valley /emseries premiere party in stylei /iat Jax and Brittany’s a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylors-bar-jaxs-studio-city-has-new-look-sign-photos" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Jax’s Studio City/a sports bar in Los Angeles. With the recent news that the pair was “a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-jax-taylor-taking-time-apart-moving-out" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-jax-taylor-taking-time-apart-moving-out" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-jax-taylor-taking-time-apart-moving-out" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"taking time apart/a” and living in separate homes, both addressed the split on the red carpet and gave new details about what’s really happening behind closed doors, as reported by ema href="https://pagesix.com/2024/03/15/entertainment/brittany-cartwright-lack-of-sex-led-to-jax-taylor-separation/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Page Six/a/emandemThe Daily Dish./em/span/span/p pspanspanHere's what they said./span/span/p div class="blog-post__faq" div class="faq--question" h2What caused the Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright split?/h2 /div div class="faq--answer" pThe way Jax treated Brittany recently led her to want the separation, she said./p p“We’ve been together nine years, and people stop appreciating and take you for granted after some time, and that should never happen in a marriage,” Brittany told emPage Six. /em“So, that’s what I’m trying to get back, and if it doesn’t come back, we won’t get back together.”/p /div /div pspanspanIt was revealed in a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-valley/season-1/videos/get-a-look-at-whats-to-come-in-the-valley-season-1-sneak-peek" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"a teaser/afor emThe Valley/emthat there wasn’t a lot of magic happening in the couple’s bedroom. Brittany told fellow cast membera href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/janet-caperna" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Janet Caperna/a that she didn’t feel Jax was still attracted to her, adding, “We don’t have sex ever.”/span/span/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="07bfd4c5-80cb-43b1-a294-2d7ac68913ac" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/02/the-valley-jax-taylor_0.jpg?itok=RaqSp2lF" width="862" height="575" alt="Jax Taylor, Brittany Cartwright and their son Cruz Cauchi out together." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Jax Taylor posts an image of himself, his wife Brittany Cartwright, and their son Cruz Cauchi to his instagram. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Jax Taylor/Instagram /span /div /div /div /div pstrongspanspanHere's what you missed on Bravo:/span/span/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright-zoo-day-with-son-cruz" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright-zoo-day-with-son-cruz" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright-zoo-day-with-son-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright Reunite for a Family Outing Amid Their Split/a/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/the-valley-cast-new-info-tom-sandoval-ariana-madix-breakup" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/the-valley-cast-new-info-tom-sandoval-ariana-madix-breakup" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/the-valley-cast-new-info-tom-sandoval-ariana-madix-breakup" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Valley Cast Reveals Shocking New Info About Tom and Ariana’s Split: “It Just Wasn’t Adding Up”/a/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-mom-sherri-jax-taylor-bar-breakup-reason" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-mom-sherri-jax-taylor-bar-breakup-reason" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-mom-sherri-jax-taylor-bar-breakup-reason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Brittany's Mom Predicted Jax's Business Would Lead to Breakup: "Open a Bar, Get a Divorce"/a/strong/p pspanspanBrittany agreed the lack of intimacy could have been grounds for damaged self-esteem, but thankfully, the Kentucky-raised mother-of-one is confident in her own skin. /span/span/p pspanspan“I think I just had to be like, ‘I’m hot as hell, and I’m not gonna listen to this bullsh-t anymore,’” Brittany continued to emPage Six./em /span/span/p pspanspanBrittany reiterated that bBravo/b cameras were a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-says-shes-still-friends-with-jax-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"back up/a and rolling since she and Jax announced their split in February 2024, adding that things were “gonna be crazy.”/span/span/p pspanspan“A lot of stuff happened when the cameras went down, and I want people to realize that it’s not because of what happened on the show, it’s not because of anything like that," said Brittany. “I very much love [Jax], but I hit my breaking point a little bit.”/span/span/p h2spanspanbJax Says Split Is Not for Publicity/b/span/span/h2 pspanspanJax and Brittany maintain that nothing about their separation is a a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-says-shes-still-friends-with-jax-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"publicity stunt/a ahead of emThe Valley,/em which Jax addressed at the premiere party in a separate red-carpet interview with bBravo/b’s ema href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Daily Dish/a./em/span/span/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="1b0350ec-e137-4d6a-8be9-0c3a3dca4bb4" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/02/the_valley_season_1_-113.jpg?itok=kcCUUyXE" width="862" height="575" alt="Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor on a grass lawn together" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor's The Valley Season 1 press portrait. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Felix Kunze/Bravo /span /div /div /div /div pspanspanJax promised fans would get to see “a lot of excitement, a lot of evolvement” as the show’s couples enter a new era, including parenthood, marriage, and separation. Of course, not everything was planned, namely his and Brittany’s breakup./span/span/p pspanspan“The most important thing is I don’t want people thinking this is a publicity stunt,” Jax told emThe Daily Dish. /em“I think when people start watching this show, and they understand that we started filming this almost a year ago, they’ll know that this kind of stuff has been happening with my wife and I — I would never use my family as a publicity stunt.”/span/span/p pJax and Brittany announced their split weeks beforeemThe Valley'/ems a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/jesse-lally" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/people/jesse-lally" href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/jesse-lally" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Jesse/a and a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/michelle-lally" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/people/michelle-lally" href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/michelle-lally" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Michelle Lally/a a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/the-valley-jesse-and-michelle-lally-divorce-before-premiere" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/the-valley-jesse-and-michelle-lally-divorce-before-premiere" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/the-valley-jesse-and-michelle-lally-divorce-before-premiere" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"confirmed their breakup/a toemUs Weekly/emreporters at the series premiere party./p pspanspanBrittany told emPage Six /emthat she moved herself and Cruz into an Airbnb on January 24, 2024, and has since asked her estranged husband to do “four little things,” none of which Jax has complied with. Her statements echoed what she a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-speaks-on-her-separation-from-jax-taylor" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-speaks-on-her-separation-from-jax-taylor" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-speaks-on-her-separation-from-jax-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"previously said/a about Jax “not really trying” to work through their issues. /span/span/p pspanspan“I’m not saying that I’m perfect by any means, but I had to step out and take care of myself and my son,” Brittany told emPage Six./em /span/span/p pspanspanNot only did the dry spell contribute to fractures in the marriage, but emThe Valley/emtrailer also revealed Brittany wanted to have a second child, something Jax referred to as “worrisome.”/span/span/p pspanspanShe told emPage Six /emit was “a whole ‘nother thing” audiences would see throughout Season 1 and “a whole ‘nother reason why we are where we are now.”/span/span/p pspanspanJax and Brittany say their a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cruz-brittany-cartwright-jax-taylor-son-kids-photos" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"2-year-old son/a, Cruz, is their number one priority, however. Jax even told emPage Six /emthat “nothing’s changed” between him and Brittany — outside sharing a roof — and that they will still co-parent and manage their businesses all the same, including the emWhen Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany/em podcast and Jax's Studio City. /span/span/p pspanspanJax continues to a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-claps-back-at-katie-maloneys-cheating-accusations"deny rumors/a of infidelity — given his a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-valley/jax-taylors-cheating-scandals-list-of-breakups-rumors" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"relationship history/a on emVanderpump Rules /em— and said “communication problems” were behind the split./span/span/p pspanspanWatch ema href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-valley" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Valley/a/em, premiering Tuesday, March 19, 2024, on bBravo/b./span/span/p