Lisa Vanderpump Has a Theory About Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright's Split: "It's a Shame"

Since Brittany Cartwright confirmed that she was "taking time apart" from her husband of five years, Jax Taylor, many Bravolebrities have been weighing in on the separation— including their former boss, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/lisa-vanderpump" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Lisa Vanderpump/a./p pThe SUR co-owner, who got to know the couple well during their time on a href="https://www.bravotv.com/vanderpump-rules" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emVanderpump Rules/em/a, weighed in on a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/what-caused-jax-taylor-and-brittany-cartwright-split" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"the couple's split/a during a recent chat with ema href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1397533/lisa-vanderpump-breaks-silence-on-jax-taylor-and-brittany-cartwrights-breakup" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"E! News/a. /emPlus, she revealed why she really thinks that the two are calling it quits./p h3More from Bravo:/h3 pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/what-caused-jax-taylor-and-brittany-cartwright-split" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongBrittany Reveals Jax Did Something "That Should Never Happen in a Marriage"/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-mom-sherri-jax-taylor-bar-breakup-reason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongBrittany's Mom Predicted Jax's Business Would Lead to Breakup: "Open a Bar, Get a Divorce"/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright-zoo-day-with-son-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongJax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright Reunite for a Family Outing Amid Their Split/strong/a/p h2Lisa Vanderpump's Theory on Why Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright Separated/h2 pLisa admitted that many naysayers negatively affected Jax and Brittany's relationship when the two a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-update-on-mom-drama-after-wedding-vanderpump-rules-recap" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"first exchanged vows in Kentucky in 2019/a, and she tried not to be one of them. As she put it, "Everybody predicted that when they got married. They said, 'Oh this won't last long,' but I kind of never liked to draw conclusions."/p pLisa is, however, doing some speculating about what led to Jax and Brittany's split. "I don't know what the reason was, but I imagine it was probably something to do with Jax's bad behavior," she said, referencing a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-discusses-jax-taylor-cheating-scandal" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-discusses-jax-taylor-cheating-scandal" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-discusses-jax-taylor-cheating-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Jax's past penchant for infidelity/a. "I'm not sure, but the indicator of futurebehavior is normally pastbehavior."/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="d2669ae6-e723-41fb-bd31-4321b703ea1b" 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/2024/03/lisa-vanderpump-jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright.jpg?itok=qRODp_wQ" width="862" height="575" alt="A split of Lisa Vanderpump, Jax Taylor, and Brittany Cartwright." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Lisa visits Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on March 8, 2023 in New York City; Jax and Brittany visit Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on March 20, 2023 in New York City. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Charles Sykes/Bravo /span /div /div /div /div pJax has denied that cheating was the cause of his separation. In his own interview with a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1397533/lisa-vanderpump-breaks-silence-on-jax-taylor-and-brittany-cartwrights-breakup" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emE! News/em/a, he said that the two were having issues with "communication."/p p"We're just having a little communication issues right now," he told the outlet. "That's all, there's nothing else."/p h2Lisa Vanderpump Calls Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor's Separation "a Shame"/h2 pLisa may not have been fully surprised to find out that Jax and Brittany were taking some time apart in their marriage, but she is disappointed./p div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="e37d4730-0e6c-4276-80ac-53a591cdffbc" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/brittany-cartwright-discusses-jax-taylor-cheating-scandal" Brittany Opens Up About How Jax's Past "Infidelity" Left Her "Embarrassed" /a /h2 /div p"It's a shame when they have a child," she said, referring to the couple's son, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/jax-taylor-brittany-cartwright-zoo-day-with-son-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Cruz Michael Cauchi/a. "Marriage isn't easy and there's always so many options in Hollywood and excuses and their egos involved. I think nearly everybody I know that was married on reality television has separated, except a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/people/ken-todd" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Ken [Todd]/a and I."/p pCatch new episodes of emVanderpump Rules/em on Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo. emThe Valley /empremieres on Tuesday, March 19 after emVanderpump Rules/em. Stream both shows the next day on Peacock./p