Jax Taylor 'devastated' by divorce from Brittany Cartwright
The 45-year-old TV star emerged from a stint in rehab to find that Brittany Cartwright was planning to divorce him, and Jax has now admitted to feeling overwhelmed by the situation.
Jax - who has Cruz, four, with Brittany - said on The Valley: "Imagine coming out of a facility, dealing with your mental health issues and then being slammed with divorce papers. And then, on top of it, it going public before you've even had the time to digest it. It's hard.
"Getting those divorce papers, it's devastating.
"We're both so hurt. We both hurt each other so much in the last couple of years. We don't have anything left."
Jax felt "safe" during his stint in rehab, but reality hit him when he returned home.
The TV star - who married Brittany back in 2019 - said: "You walk out the doors, and it's like, life just hits you.
"Now, okay, I got to remember everything that I've learned, I got to move into this new place, I got to see my son, I got to face everybody. It's a lot to take in at once. I just don't want to go back into my old ways, because it's very easy to slip."
Meanwhile, Jax previously admitted that he's been battling a cocaine addiction for more than 20 years.
He said on the Hot Mic podcast: "I have substance issues - primarily with cocaine. It's hard to say out loud. I've been dealing with this on and off since I was 23 and now I'm 45.
"There was times where I would stop doing it but then there were times where I'd go heavy on it.
"I just want to let people know this is a really, really tough disease and it's a really tough sickness."
Brittany subsequently claimed that she spent years trying to help Jax to "get better".
She said on When Reality Hits: "No one wants Jax to be better more than I do, let's be real.
"I tried and tried and tried for years to help this man get better and for us to be a happy family, I was deeply and madly in love with him, there's no one that can ever deny that."
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