Brittany's Mom Predicted Jax's Business Would Lead to Breakup: "Open a Bar, Get a Divorce"

First comes love, then comes marriage ... then comes in-laws.

Jax Taylor, who joins wifea href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/brittany-cartwright" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Brittany Cartwright/aon new Bravo series/spanema href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-valley" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"spanspanspanThe Valley/span/span/span/a/emspanspanem,/em premiering March 19, has often found his mother-in-law,a href="https://www.bravotv.com/vanderpump-rules/style-living/brittany-cartwrights-mom-sherri-shows-kentucky-farm-photo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Sherri Cartwright/a, to be a source of support, but when Jax decided to open a bar, she was not happy about it./span/span/span/p pspanspanspanSherri, who lives in Kentucky where Brittany grew up, has happily stepped up to help out with the couple’s now 3-year-old son, Cruz. She’s given Jax the benefit of the doubt at times, but this specific professional venture of Jax's, which has drawn the formeremVanderpump Rules/emstar back into the bar business, isn't one she was immediately on board with, she said. In fact, it led her to become 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"concerned about divorce /a— a fear that, it seems, was reasonable./span/span/span/p h2spanbspanspanspanBrittany’s Mom Thought Jax Opening a Bar Would Lead to Divorce/span/span/span/b/span/h2 pspanspanspanIn September 2023, Jax finally realized the dream of opening a sports bar alongside his wife, Brittany. Called a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-on-jeremy-madix-role-at-jaxs-studio-city-karaoke-night-pic" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Jax’s Studio City/aand based in the L.A., it’s an easygoing place for burgers, booze, big fun, and more./span/span/span/p pspanspanspanWhile the establishment was still in the works, Sherri, who was in California visiting the couple, was a guest on the podcast /span/spanema href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-reality-hits-with-jax-and-brittany/id1678330734" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"spanspanspanWhen Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany/span/span/span/a/em.spanspanIn a wide-ranging conversation about childhood memories and relationships that took place in August 2023, the topic of the bar came up./span/span/span/p pspanspanspanJax acknowledged that he was a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylors-bar-jaxs-studio-city-has-new-look-sign-photos" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylors-bar-jaxs-studio-city-has-new-look-sign-photos" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylors-bar-jaxs-studio-city-has-new-look-sign-photos" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"“super excited” about the bar, /abut then Brittany asked her mom how she felt about the new enterprise when she first heard about it,/span/spanspanspanSherri didn’t hold back. /span/span/span/p pspanspanspan“I didn’t like it,” she said, adding that Jax had told her years before “open a bar, get a divorce.” The prospect of her daughter facing that consequence was a big turn-off./span/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="053f1498-377e-4d9d-b2a1-a4db5890cdf4" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:771px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/2024/03/the-valley-jax-taylor.jpg" width="771" height="514" alt="Jax Taylor with his mother-in-law, Sherri Cartwright, at Comicon in Kentucky." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Jax Taylor posts an instagram story with his mother-in-law, Sherri Cartwright, at Comi con in Kentucky. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Jax Taylor/Instagram /span /div /div /div /div pspanspanspan“I was not happy with it,” a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sherri-cartwright/id1678330734?i=1000624185354" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Sherri doubled-down/a./span/span/span/p pstrongHere's what you missed on Bravo:/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/jax-taylor-reunites-with-brittany-cartwright-sherri-pic" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-reunites-with-brittany-cartwright-sherri-pic" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-reunites-with-brittany-cartwright-sherri-pic" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Find Out Why Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright Reunited — and How Her Mom, Sherri, Played a Role/a/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-got-lipo-on-chin-photos" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-got-lipo-on-chin-photos" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-got-lipo-on-chin-photos" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Brittany Cartwright Reveals She Got Lipo on Her Chin to Get Rid of a “Turkey Gobbler”/a/strong/p div class="blog-post__faq" div class="faq--question" h2strongWhat happened with Jax and Brittany?/strong/h2 /div div class="faq--answer" pIt turns out Sherri's concerns were somewhat valid, as Jax and Brittany would go on to announce a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-jax-taylor-taking-time-apart-moving-out" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"they were separating in February 2024/a, about six months after this podcast conversation./p /div /div p"Jax and I are taking time apart, and I made the decision to move into another home to take some space for the sake of my mental health," Brittany explained on a February episode of emWhen Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany. /em"I won’t get into too many details right now because this is still very hard to talk about and I’m taking things one day at a time ... Idon’t know what the future holds, but right now, my focus is on being the best mom to Cruz. Ilove you guys. Pray for us. And everything will be just fine."/p pOf course, neither have pointed to the bar as the a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright-relationship-timeline" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright-relationship-timeline" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright-relationship-timeline" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"reason behind their split,/a but Sherri certainly had reason to be concerned about the marriage, it seems./p pspanspanspanJax, who admitted to Sherri during that podcast episode that the hospitality business is tough on marriages, deftly went into damage-control mode at the time. He reassured Sherri on the podcast that Brittany wouldn’t become a neglected bar widow./span/span/span/p pspanspanspan“Here’s the difference. My wife is 100% involved in this bar just as much as I am,” he told Sherri and the podcast audience. (Brittany was behind the festive and playful look of the place.)/span/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 pspanspanspan“So everything that I’m doing, she’s doing,” Jax said. “Every dollar that I make she makes. It’s 50/50 .../span/span/spanspanspanspanShe’s going to be there for events. I'm going to be there for events. We only live 10 minutes away. It's really easy, but we're definitely not going to be married to it.”/span/span/span/p pspanspanspanBrittany echoed that sentiment: “That’s right. We’re doing this together, baby — a family affair.”/span/span/span/p pspanspanspanBrittany then asked her mother if she felt better about the bar after that./span/span/span/p pspanspanspan“A little, maybe,” said Sherri./span/span/spanspanspanspan“I’m gonna keep very close tabs on Jax to see how he's doing with this process."/span/span/span/p pIt's unclear what Sherri thinks now that Jax and Brittany have announced their split — or if the bar contributed to it all. Most recently, Jax and Brittany have claimed they are still friendly and are trying to work on their relationship./p p“We are co-parenting; we’re doing the best that we can; we’re just trying to figure some things out right now,” said a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-says-shes-still-friends-with-jax-taylor" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-says-shes-still-friends-with-jax-taylor" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-says-shes-still-friends-with-jax-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Brittany on the most recent episode of emWhen Reality Hits/em./a “It doesn’t mean we are gonnaa data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/are-jax-taylor-and-brittany-cartwright-getting-divorced" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/are-jax-taylor-and-brittany-cartwright-getting-divorced" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/are-jax-taylor-and-brittany-cartwright-getting-divorced" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"get divorced/aor anything like that … things just need to be better. I’ll just say that.”/p pJax said that what they were going through wasn’t any strange phenomenon, doubling down ona href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-and-brittany-split-whats-the-reason-jax-weighs-in" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"recent statements/ahe posted to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter./p p“You know what, too, I don’t know anybody who’s married who hasn’t gone through what we’re going through right now,” said Jax. “Everybody you know goes through something in their marriage, whether it’s a hiccup or taking a break or whatever, but it’s a normal thing. We’re trying to figure it out, and that’s pretty much where we’re gonna leave it.”/p pBrittany agreed they didn’t want to get into the nitty gritty on the podcast but thanked followers who supported their continuing journey. She reiterated that the separation was part of their “real lives.”/p pspanspanspanFind out more about what’s up with Jax and Brittany and their friends when emspanThe Valley/span/empremieres on March 19./span/span/span/p