Brittany Cartwright claimed Jax Taylor’s failure to pay taxes led to a $10,000 increase per month on their mortgage, as Jax addressed signing a lease “17 days” into rehab and recalled a conversation with his realtor at the time.
Last year, Brittany separated from Jax amid their marital issues. At the time, he refused to leave the house, so Brittany and their son stayed in various rented houses. In a recent episode of The Valley, Brittany revealed how Jax failed to pay their mortgage for months, which affected Brittany’s credit.
On The Valley: After Show, Brittany addressed the house situation with Jax.
“I moved out January 24th of 2024, and he stopped paying [our mortgage] in February,” said Brittany. “I’ll never forgive him … Because of his ego and everything, [he said,] ‘I’m not moving out. This is my house.’ And then he just completely stopped paying all the bills. And then was yelling at me, saying, ‘You don’t pay the bills here’ … The whole time, I could have been paying the mortgage. Instead, I spent over $100,000 on rental homes.”
Jason Caperna suggested that Jax was “shirk[ing]” his “responsibility” because he was dealing with “depression and anxiety.”
But Zack Wickham said his failure to pay was a “malicious act,” and Jax was “directly retaliating against” Brittany for moving out.
Jax himself said he “didn’t care” to pay the bill at the time, but he later wrote a $100,000 check to make up for it.
In her interview, Brittany expressed, “He did the same thing with his taxes for years. He didn’t pay. He just figures it’s just going to go away. My mortgage used to be around $8,000. I pay $18,000 now because of his taxes.”
“I was doing a bunch of commercials, a bunch of different brand deals, and different things like that. And so I was definitely bringing in a lot more money, and I don’t think he liked that because he was always used to being the breadwinner,” said Brittany. “He paid the mortgage, and I paid everything else … I just think that as a father, you should contribute. He gave me $3,000 in all of 2024 … And still to this day, he’s maybe given me [$8,000] total in 2024 and 2025.”
Jax himself admitted to not paying his taxes for a long period. “My taxes weren’t paid in six years. You can sit there and say, ‘Why didn’t you pay it?’ Well, I didn’t have the money to pay it, so I just kind of let it ride,” said Jax. “People make mistakes with taxes every single day. I learned my lesson, had to remortgage, and here we are. But I fixed it and I made it clean, and now we’re good.”
Jax then addressed how he signed a lease for an apartment when he was “17 days” into rehab, and he claimed his therapist told him it was a “great move.”
“I thought, ‘What was I doing making Brittany jump from Airbnb to Airbnb with my son,'” he said of his reasoning at the time. “[But] let’s not [forget], she was living in mansions … It was not like she was living in a little shack.”
“Where the hell was I gonna go?” said Jax of the new apartment. “So I was talking to my real estate agent, and I said, ‘Listen … there’s a new brand new building that just opened up … Tom [Schwartz] was there. This is right at my price range. I think Brittany will really appreciate the fact that I’m standing up, being a man, leaving the home.’ It totally backfired on me.”
