Jax Taylor has revealed new details about the origins of Brittany Cartwright’s divorce

Jax Taylor opened up about the origins of his divorce from Brittany Cartwright.

While talking on Bravo’s Hot microphone podcast on Thursday, November 14th Vanderpump Rules Alum claimed that he was the one who first decided to end the affair, despite Cartwright being the one who filed for divorce in the first place.

“The second weekend of rehab, I emailed Brittany and said, ‘I’m going to need a mediator,'” he explained. “People don’t understand that I initiated this. So when I emailed her and got a mediator, I put that in the email and she said, “No, I’m hiring a divorce attorney.” And I said, “Okay, whatever.”

Taylor suggested mediation to save money, noting that neither pursued the other financially.

However, Cartwright rejected his proposal and served him with divorce papers just three days later, which did not surprise him.

“I think she wanted to be the first person to publicly hand me the papers,” Taylor, 45, said. “I think she wanted to get ahead of it while I was in rehab. She wanted to be the first to publicly say, ‘I’m breaking up with him,’ even though, to be honest, I was the one who initiated it.”

Despite the drama, Taylor emphasized that it “doesn’t matter” to me who filed first. The important thing, he said, was that he knew he didn’t want to stay married.

An estranged couple involved in a divorce case got married on June 29, 2019. During four years of marriage, 35-year-old Cartwright and Taylor gave birth to a two-year-old son, Cruz.