“I think she wanted to be the first to publicly say, ‘I’m divorcing him,’ when, in all honesty, I was the one that initiated it,” Taylor insisted
Jax Taylor is revealing more details about his divorce from Brittany Cartwright.
The Vanderpump Rules alum, 45, broke down the origins of his divorce during an appearance on Bravo’s Hot Mic podcast on Nov. 14. Although Cartwright, 35, was the one to file for divorce, Taylor claimed he had been the one to end things.
“The second weekend of rehab, I emailed Brittany and said, ‘I’m getting a mediator,’” he shared. “People don’t realize that I’m the one that initiated this. So when I emailed her, and I got a mediator, and I put that, I emailed Brittany, she was like, ‘Oh, no, I’m getting a divorce lawyer.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, whatever.’”
He added: “But I was like, ‘Why don’t we just get a mediator? Like, why don’t we save some money? We’re not going after each other financially. There’s no reason to spend all this money.’”
Three days after suggesting mediation, Taylor said he was served with divorce papers, which didn’t surprise him.
“I think she wanted to be the first one to serve me papers publicly,” he said. “I think she wanted to get ahead of it while I was in there. I think she wanted to be the first to publicly say, ‘I’m divorcing him,’ when, in all honesty, I was the one that initiated it.”
Taylor claimed that “it didn’t matter to me” who served who, but he knew he didn’t want to stay in the marriage.
“It needed to happen,” he said. “I just think that I blindsided her a little bit. I think she really, really wanted me to work on the marriage. I think that was her goal. And I just was so checked out. By that time, I was just really checked out. I just couldn’t come back anymore.”
