On part two of The Valley reunion, Jax continues to be “performative,” according to Brittany. Things get dark as Jax admits to his love of cocaine and manipulative ways. Michelle owns up to cheating on Jesse while married, and Janet and Zack vie for Brittany’s friendship. But when Danny’s actions toward Jasmine and Melissa get brought up again, Janet drops some (more) serious allegations against Danny.
The Jax and Brittany segment continues. Jax shares that he has been sober for 156 days (as of the reunion filming), and he wants Brittany to continue to hold him accountable with random drug testing. Jax admits that he was always doing coke, even during filming for Vanderpump Rules. Brittany lets everyone know that they would go to dinner, and he would leave her at the table every 10 minutes to do blow.
Jax (and his lift shoes) explains that he wants to be a good father, but Brittany still does not trust him, despite his promises. Jax admits that he is confused about the divorce. One second, he is love bombing Brittany, the next, random girls are DMing Brittany about Jax. Jax tries to spin it to make it seem like Brittany only got with him for fame (lol), but Brittany reminds Jax that he was all over her since day one.
When it comes to his bipolar diagnosis, Brittany explains that Jax originally did not get the prescription filled for the meds he needed. Jax talks about his need for control (“that’s all I have left”), and he tearfully states that he wants to be back involved with the group.
He is unsure where his manipulative behaviors come from, but Brittany is sick of Jax blaming her for everything. She admits that her biggest fear was to find him dead in a bathroom, and she worries that this accountability on stage is “performative” since she is the only one who knows what loneliness truly is. When asked if he is still in love with Brittany, Jax is not ready to answer. Brittany feels like Jax did not fight for her at all.
Brittany talks about Cruz’s autism diagnosis. Early on, he spoke, crawled, and walked, but by the time he was turning two, Brittany began to see some signs. She went through this process all by herself, but she chose to go public to educate about early intervention and to advocate.
In other divorce news, Jesse continues to accuse Michelle of cheating while they were married. Michelle clarifies Jesse’s version of the cheating, but ultimately admits to it. Michelle feels like Jesse intentionally tried to shame her to get people to hate her, and she scoffs at the fact that Jesse was faithful during their marriage.
Michelle tries to blame Jesse for talking about the cheating and points out that as soon as she asked Jesse for a divorce, he started sleeping with a married woman. Messy, messy. And regarding the gay guy who allegedly sent Jesse money, according to Michelle? Yeah, he is their FRIEND, who also happened to attend their wedding. So Michelle was trying too hard to help her narrative; however, Jesse does feel bad for giving life to the hooker rumor about Michelle.
Luke apologizes for getting involved in Jesse and Michelle’s marriage, and Michelle denies being in an emotional relationship with Aaron. At the end of the day, it is clear that Jesse and Michelle remain happily uncoupled. Period.
Janet automatically reaches for Jason when she realizes that she is now in the hot seat. Kristen explains that the Janet she was friends with is NOT the girl on this show. Everyone nods in agreement… except for Jason. Jesse points out that Janet brings things back up that do not need to be discussed, and that she involves herself in all the things.
Zack addresses his blackout night at Jax’s bar opening and admits that he allegedly said something about Janet miscarrying. Terrible. Zack has since apologized multiple times, but in true Janet fashion, she drags it out, stating that Zack needs to quit trashing her 24/7.
Janet and Zack seem to be fighting for Brittany’s BFF award, but Brittany should learn that a friend to all is a friend to none. According to Zack, it’s not that he is jealous of Janet and Brittany’s friendship. It’s more like he is confused why Brittany would want to be friends with someone like Janet. Janet, who deleted Brittany’s birthday post upon finding out Brittany is friends with Zack again. Mature.
Since Jax did not like his edit last season and thought Danny and Nia were “protected,” he told Danny he was going to come after him this season. Danny reminds Jax that he cared about him a lot, but Jax worked overtime to ruin his character and his name. Because of what Jax was trying to push about Danny’s drinking, Danny admits he was trying to hide his vodka chug in the pantry from the cameras.
Upon hearing this, Jason jumps in to share HIS issue: Janet always gets blamed. Nia feels like Janet is always coming from a malicious place and that the only reason Danny called her a snake is because she called him Danny Darko first!
Despite Danny apologizing until he was blue in the face after the Jasmine Halloween incident, it keeps getting brought up. Jasmine explains that she was annoyed Melissa did not get an apology to her face; therefore, the apology felt “half-a*sed” and “felt like sh*t.” Danny points out that this happened over a year ago. Jasmine’s issue seems to be that Danny did not take her relationship seriously, but seemingly held it in for a year until filming. Which is why Danny wondered why they were bringing it back up that night on camera… but more importantly, why did Janet bring it back up?
Jasmine is still hurt by Danny and thanks Jason for having his support. Jason was not there to witness what occurred, but he sure has an opinion about it, calling Danny a clown. Danny clarifies that he can’t believe JANET brought this up again. Janet calmly states she is glad she brought this up since Danny has since been inappropriate again, making multiple women uncomfortable as recently as the Super Bowl. Say what?! This is news to Danny…
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