Jax Taylor was a hot topic for his The Valley cast members after Tuesday night’s episode of season two exposed his fake Instagram account.
As he shaded his estranged wife, Brittany Cartwright, 36, for her handling of their divorce, and she recalled his reaction to her filing, poking fun at his error-stricken response documents, the rest of the cast weighed in on Jax, 45, having a secret online alterego.
“Frank Dremon is Jax’s secret burner account on Instagram where he goes into the fan pages and defends himself,” Janet Caperna, 35, explained to Michelle Saniei, 36, and Scheana Shay, 40, on the June 17 episode of The Valley: After Show.
According to Janet, she has a burner account but never posts from it.
“If I’m blocked by somebody or I have somebody blocked, I’ll go peek at their Stories … You never post. You never comment. It’s for looking only,” she shared.
Meanwhile, Lala Kent, 34, asked Brittany, “Was it just to troll or would he slide into girls’ DMs?”
“He was talking about himself,” Brittany replied. “He said, ‘Jax Taylor is the show,’ and he was like, ‘Who wouldn’t be mad if their wife was hooking up with their friend?’ Just saying, like, all kinds of crazy stuff.”
As for Jax, he opened up about his stance on social media after a producer asked him how he “[handled] the public dialogue.”
“We all know how I dive into that sh*t,” he admitted. “I actually have a merch line. Blocked by Jax merch is coming out. People love that.”
While Jax didn’t speak of the Frank Dremon account directly, he claimed that he often saw his fans feuding with his haters and noted that “you can’t engage.”
“That’s the hard part because I have a hard time … not engaging,” he shared. “I get phone calls literally multiple times a week, ‘Jax, stop engaging. Stop talking. Stop responding.’”
During another segment of The Valley: After Show, Jax looked back on the moment Brittany filed for divorce.
“I mean, I would’ve filed if she didn’t, but I was just shocked how it came about,” he stated. “Just getting out of rehab, right, just getting blindsided by Britt’s bar party. Now I got divorce papers coming at me.”
Although Jax had propositioned Brittany about going to mediation to keep things simple, she allegedly refused, telling him, “F*ck no, I’m gonna get divorced.”
“Brittany always told me, ‘No matter what happens in life, I’ll never take your son away from you.’ I’m like, OK, well, then I guess I don’t need to get a lawyer,” he reasoned. “Why am I gonna spend thousands and thousands of dollars? I don’t want your house, I don’t want your furniture or dishes, I don’t want anything.”
But after filling out his divorce response himself, Jax learned he did it “all wrong.”
“She yelled at me for it and made fun of me about it,” he noted of Brittany.
Jax went on to criticize Brittany for putting their split on television.
“That’s when I was like, ‘Wow, she’s playing dirty,'” he alleged. “I know she’s angry … But how this was played out was very, I don’t really have any words.”
In her own segment, Brittany said that after she filed documents to end their marriage, she received a text message from Jax.
“He texted me something like, ‘Wow. Divorce, huh? I guess I saw it coming.’ Something like that. Like, it wasn’t mean, it wasn’t aggressive like I was thinking it was gonna be,” she revealed. “I can’t remember [how I responded].”
She then noted that Jax had to retain a lawyer because “he filled out the papers all wrong.”
“He checked that we were never legally married, and he checked that our separation date was the day that he went in to file the papers. So, he was already in, like, contempt of court,” she laughed.
The Valley season two airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
