The OG Vanderpump Rules trio of Jax Taylor, Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval are one step closer to reuniting as roommates. (Well, sort of.)
On the latest episode of Jax and estranged wife Brittany Cartwright’s When Reality Hits podcast (which the exes now host separately), Jax revealed that he’s officially vacated his and Brittany’s Valley Village home and is now living next door to his longtime friend/one-time roommate/former ‘Vanderpump Rules’ co-star Schwartz.
As The Ashley previously reported, Brittany filed for divorce at the end of August, citing “irreconcilable differences.” The news of The Valley stars’ impending divorce came six months after the pair announced they were separating after less than five years of marriage.
While Brittany has reportedly been bouncing around to different Airbnbs since separating from Jax, the self-proclaimed No. 1 Guy in the Group revealed that he moved out of the couple’s home “about two weeks ago” and is now living in a townhouse.
“Everyone keeps [asking], do I live with Tom Schwartz? I do not live with Tom Schwartz, he has a townhouse that is next to mine, but they are completely separate,” Jax told listeners, as reported by @vanderpodrecaps. “We have our own building, but we do not live together.
“But yes, I did move out,” he continued. “I thought it was a good move for me to, you know, get my own place, because it wasn’t fair for Brittany to keep getting these Airbnbs and she wasn’t sure where she was going to go.”
Jax added that “it didn’t seem right” for his and Brittany’s three-year-old son Cruz “to be bouncing around to all these places.”
Earlier this week, Jax told a fan on social media that Brittany (and Cruz) had staked her claim on the former couple’s Valley Village home, though he revealed on his podcast that the move was already in the works during his recent stay at a mental health facility.
(Jax checked into the facility in July and has revealed that during his nearly 30-day stay, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.)
“ … While I was in the facility, I took it upon myself to find a townhouse that is absolutely beautiful, brand new, very secure, updated, remodeled, super-safe for Cruz,” he said. “I wanted something that would be very, very safe for Cruz … and yes, I know I live next to Tom Schwartz, but he is my best friend at the end of the day and if I need help with something, if I need help with Cruz, he’s right there … .”
Prior to Thursday’s podcast, Jax soft-launched his new living sitch by posting two nearly identical photos of himself posing on what appeared to be a rooftop, telling his Instagram followers that it would “take some time” for his “new place to feel like home but it will get there.”
He also went on to confirm Friday in a sponsored ad posted to his Instagram Story that he was decorating his “new townhouse.”
While Jax said he’s “really happy” and settled in his new townhouse, he claims he’s still working on himself, telling listeners on Friday that he’s “seeing a life coach” and going to therapy following his time in the mental health facility.
“ … I’m also talking to my therapist who I was speaking to within the facility,” he said. “Her name was Tracy, who was just an amazing, amazing person.”
Jax said there were “multiple therapists” available for him to speak to in treatment, though Tracy was the person he connected with the most.
“ … There was some males and there was some female … I wanted to go the male route, I really did,” he said. “I started off with a male and I just thought, for me, after going through what I went through, I just thought a male kind of knows another male pretty well … .”
Jax said that, while he connected with one particular male therapist really well, the individual ended up leaving the facility, which is how he ended up with “Tracy” as his therapist, noting that he related to her because “she is a person that [has] struggled.”
Despite singing “Tracy’s” praises and telling listeners he was still “talking” to her since leaving the mental health facility, Jax went on to say that he’s actually “gonna find another therapist very soon.”
“ … I’m looking for another one because I’m really getting addicted to therapy,” he said. “And I kind of like it to be honest. It kind of just, it sets my week up.”
Also on his agenda is getting to a place with Brittany where they can discuss their marriage— and divorce— together.
“I want to be a divorce success story…I feel like Brittany and I, at some point, could possibly come together and say– talk about where it went wrong, what we did wrong, what we did right, what would we change,” Jax said on the podcast.
