A yr and half earlier than Brittany Cartwright filed for divorce, Jax Taylor revealed that he didn’t take into account legally splitting up as an possibility.
The Valley star, 45, mirrored on the ups and downs of their marriage — which included weathering infidelity scandals to taking up parenthood collectively — in a March 2023 interview with PEOPLE.
“I do not imagine in divorce. My mother and father did not get divorced,” Taylor shared on the time. “I do not imagine in that. Marriage is figure. I am not saying day by day is wonderful.”
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“There’s good days and there is dangerous days, however that is marriage, and that is what makes your relationship stronger,” he continued. “We love arduous. We struggle arduous. It is wonderful.”
Taylor mentioned the pair had been “finest mates” and his spouse was the “just one” who might “put up” with him. “Now we have numerous enjoyable with one another. I truthfully cannot think about my life with anyone else. Like I mentioned, she’s the ying to my yang, a little bit,” he defined.
“I am a tricky man to be round, so it takes a sure individual to take care of my crap,” he continued. “Even by all this, and despite the fact that my life is so much higher now, I am nonetheless robust to deal with. I believe she’s the one one that may put up with me actually.”
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Almost a yr later, Cartwright, 35, introduced the couple’s determination to separate in Feb. 2024.
“I do know on my final podcast, I alluded to many marriages undergo rocky instances,” she shared on the time. “Sure, marriages usually are very arduous and I’ve had a very tough yr this previous yr. Jax and I are taking time aside and I made the choice to maneuver into one other dwelling to take some house for the sake of my psychological well being.”
The mom and actuality star — who shares son 3-year-old son, Cruz Michael Cauchi, with Taylor — mentioned on the podcast that the breakup was “nonetheless very arduous to speak about,” and he or she was “taking someday at a time.” She added, “I don’t know what the longer term holds, however proper now my focus is on being the very best mother to Cruz.”
Almost six months later, Cartwright filed for divorce from Taylor on Tuesday, Aug. 27, in keeping with courtroom paperwork obtained by PEOPLE. The submitting lists the date of separation as Jan. 24 and cites “irreconcilable variations” as the explanation for the divorce.
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Cartwright requested authorized and bodily custody of Cruz, however requested that the courtroom grant Taylor visitation rights. Cartwright additionally requested the courtroom to terminate spousal assist to each events.
The divorce information comes days after Taylor accomplished a 30-day therapy in a psychological well being facility.
Earlier this month, a supply instructed PEOPLE that Taylor could be returning to shoot season 2 of The Valley — which additionally stars fellow VPR alum Kristen Doute in addition to newcomers Luke Broderick, Jesse Lally, Danny Booko, Nia Booko, Michelle Lally, Jason Caperna and Janet Caperna — after finishing his psychological well being therapy.
