The Valley Season 2 Touches On Jax Taylor’s Messy Divorce

Jax Taylor, Brittany Cartwright, and their finest pals will return to Bravo for season 2 of “The Valley” in April 2025. Primarily based on the trailer, which showcased tears, thrown drinks, and stunning threats of bodily violence, the Bravoverse is in for a wild journey.

Additionally, within the trailer, Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor deal with the downfall of their marriage with their pals, and through tense conversations, each actuality stars are pushed to tears once they understand issues won’t ever be the identical.

Taylor and Cartwright have been in the course of a public divorce since August 2024. After 5 years of marriage, Cartwright, who met and wed Taylor on “Vanderpump Rules,” advised her followers that she was leaving the villainous actuality star due to “irreconcilable variations.”

Within the teaser for the upcoming batch of episodes, Cartwright was seen telling a co-star that, along with divorce, her plans included securing custody of her three-year-old son, Cruz, and submitting a restraining order towards Taylor.

Elsewhere within the trailer, viewers noticed Taylor talking right into a digicam earlier than breaking down in tears over the “man I need to develop into.”

One other stunning scene within the trailer concerned Cartwright making the stunning declare that Taylor, 45, had folks protecting tabs on her each transfer since separating.

“He has folks watching me,” the fact star advised her pals earlier than the teaser confirmed her masking up a digicam inside her house.

In one other emotional clip, Cartwright, 36, might be seen preventing together with her castmate Nia Booko as she shouts that her husband was coming into rehab for habit.

“I am going by way of a lot,” Cartwright stated, including, “My husband [is in] rehab!”

Cartwright’s revelation that Taylor had entered an in-patient restoration middle whereas filming season 2 of “The Valley” is not a lot of a shock, contemplating the “Home of Villains” star opened up about his keep in 2024.

In March 2025, he was much more weak with viewers members when he revealed he’d struggled with habit to cocaine for practically 20 years.

Throughout the “Sizzling Mic” podcast sponsored by Bravo, Taylor, who joined “VPR” in 2013, advised the host candidly that he was “an addict.”

“I’ve substance points—primarily with cocaine,” he defined earlier than saying he’d been utilizing the illicit drug since he was 23.

Cartwright mentioned Taylor’s openness with the Bravosphere and admitted that she was unconvinced he’d be capable to keep on the straight and arrow. In accordance with her, she’s tried to assist the daddy of 1 many instances earlier than; nonetheless, her makes an attempt had been at all times met with resistance. Consequently, it has been tough for Cartwright to sing his praises.

“His behaviors are nonetheless alarming, and his therapy plan appears to be the naked minimal,” she added.

Taylor defined that he used cocaine throughout many of the filming for “Vanderpump Guidelines,” which he starred in from 2013 to 2020. Throughout his interview, Taylor shared that he believed he was protecting his conduct hid, “however clearly, I wasn’t,” he stated.

“I believed, for essentially the most half, that I used to be protecting loads of it beneath the radar,” Taylor famous. “After I watch again, I’m like, ‘How large are my f-cking pupils? I’m sweating and there’s no motive to be sweating within the scene. Why am I sweating?’”

He continued, “I might go off alone. We might movie a scene, and you’ve got half-hour [of] downtime, so most individuals go relaxation. I might go to a bar, get lit, or go subsequent door from SUR, and that’s the place all of us went as a result of we weren’t allowed to drink throughout scenes.”

Taylor and Cartwright aren’t the one couple going through troubles in season 2 of “The Valley.”

Michelle Saniei and Jesse Lally are nonetheless at odds following their cut up on the finish of season 1.

Within the trailer, the estranged couple are seen engaged in a number of explosive arguments, together with one which stemmed from Lally calling Saniei, the mom of his baby, a “hooker.”

Elsewhere within the three-minute clip, cameras captured Saniei throwing a drink in Lally’s face after he requested whether or not she cheated on him.

“F-ck you,” she stated earlier than strolling away.

Followers responded with overwhelming reward to the trailer, with many acknowledging how intense the season appears to be like.

“We have gotta defend this present with the whole lot we have,” one consumer wrote. “They’ve CLOCKED IN.”

“Holy sh-t,” a second consumer commented. “This appears to be like AMAZING!”

A 3rd consumer agreed earlier than saying “The Valley” was of their “Bravo high [five].”