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Brittany Cartwright couldn't quite pinpoint the source of highly specific Jax Taylor tabloid leaks on The Valley.
During the Santa Barbara getaway on Season 2, Episode 4, Janet Caperna showed Brittany something on her phone, as various headlines about Jax entering a mental health treatment facility flashed on the screen.
"I don't know who the source is, but some of the details that people know is a little weird," Brittany said in a fourth-wall-breaking moment. "I'm like, how do they know this many details?"
When Janet asked if Jax was aware the news was "coming out," his estranged wife was unsure but didn't want him to find out and asked the group to not tell him. "I know that you wouldn't, but we have to be, like, very apparent," Brittany added. "He knew that we were going on this trip. I'm like, who told him…?"
That's when Jesse Lally volunteered that he talks to Jax "every day" and is the one who spilled the beans about Santa Barbara. While Brittany insisted that knowing they were all away together would just "upset" Jax, Janet explained, "We don’t want to tempt him to check out early because he can check out whenever he wants."
Even so, Jesse thought that not telling Jax about the Santa Barbara retreat would have been the wrong move. "What would set him off is us going on a trip, not telling him, and then having him see it," he reasoned in a confessional. "Like, yeah, you can be Team Brittany, and she deserves support. Why does Jax not deserve support?"
How Jax Taylor communicated with The Valley cast from rehab
The episode revealed that, in addition to "rage texting" Brittany and communicating with Jesse, Jax had also been in touch with Jason Caperna and Kristen Doute, among others, during his stay at the treatment center.
As his ex explained, Jax was only without access to his cell phone during his seven hours of daily therapy sessions. "They take his phone while he's in therapy, and then he gets 15-minute breaks in between," she elaborated. "So, he's doing therapy, getting his phone, rage texting me, going back to therapy, getting his phone, rage texting me, going back to therapy…"
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In a confessional, Brittany added, "One of the main reasons Jax is in this mental health facility right now is because of his anger issues, his rage. And I actually thought that whenever he was in there for 30 days that I would be able to have some kind of peace. How dumb was I?"
Inside Jax Taylor's early days in treatment
During the group’s remote control car racing outing, Jason informed the group that he had just spoken to Jax on the phone a day earlier. "He still blames Brittany for a lot of what’s going on," he revealed to the cast. "And it's like, he hasn't gotten to a point yet where he can just work on himself."
In his own words, Jax admitted that he was "very standoffish" during his first few days in treatment. "I just felt out of my element. I didn't want to be here, I didn't like the people here. I didn't want to hear anybody," he shared via a video diary.
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Claiming that he was beginning to find some emotions that he never knew he had, Jax said that he hated knowing that Brittany, with whom he shares 4-year-old son, Cruz Michael Cauchi, was out living her life while he was in treatment.
"I know she's going on trips and things like that and … sometimes I feel a little alone. Um, I feel a little neglected," he stated. "I wish she would check in on me more. I know that I've done a lot of damage, and I know, um, that she's gotta go through her own thing. But I know when we got married, it was in sickness and in health. And right now, I'm sick."
Acknowledging his hurt, anger, and inner "demons," Jax felt that treatment was finally "allowing [him] to talk about it all," though. Ultimately, he summed up, "I can't keep going like this. It's just killing me. It's killing my wife, it's killing my family, and it's gonna destroy my son if I don't get fixed."
Don't miss what else Jax detailed about his time in rehab and how treatment saved his life.
