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Kristen Slams Jax’s “Lie” About Marriage to Brittany: “Only Thing He Said That’s True…”

The expectant mother said she caught Jax in a lie just 48 hours before recording Bravo's Hot Mic Podcast alongside Luke Broderick. 

By Jax Miller

Kristen Doute didn’t hold back on Bravo’s Hot Mic Podcast when it came to her costars from The Valley, spilling new details about best friend Brittany Cartwright amid her ongoing divorce from Jax Taylor.

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The former Vanderpump Rules cast member sat with Bravo producer Alex Baskin on Season 3, Episode 7 of the podcast to discuss the ups and downs of her wild career as a Bravolebrity. Joining her was fiancé Luke Broderick. When Alex asked Kristen about her take on the former couple, she had plenty to say.

With knowing Jax for more than 15 years, Kristen said it was “typical Jax” being untruthful about the relationship these days.

“It’s the same Jax that I’ve known 17 years; it’s the same Jax that the audience has watched on TV for the past 12-plus years,” Kristen maintained. “It’s the Jax that starts with this much truth.”

However, there was one thing she said wasn’t a lie at all.

Jax Taylor's "Lies" About Brittany Cartwright

Kristen claimed, “The only thing that he said that was of any truth is that he’s verbally abusive.”  

Kristen was referencing Hot Mic Season 3, Episode 2 — now available to hear on Bravo and anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts — when Jax confessed to being “verbally abusive” toward the mother of his only child. Kristen then pointed to Jax’s claims on the podcast episode that Brittany invited him over after the couple decided to call it quits, and even though “there was truth to that,” Kristen alleged Jax took advantage of the situation.

Jax Taylor, Brittany Cartwright, and Kristen Doute at Bravocon 2023

“She was trying to give him a chance,” said Kristen. “She was trying to see the brighter side of things.”

Jax’s story shifted from merely being invited over to being invited over for drinks, according to the expectant mother. Eventually, a morphed version by Jax had Brittany invite him over for a hookup. 

“He just kept building this lie because, the way Jax works — if everyone hasn’t figured this out — the truth is just never juicy enough for him,” claimed Kristen, who had a brief (and scandalous) fling with Jax during their early SUR-ving days. “He has to make it a little bit bigger, and he admits this about himself, and he knows that this is true.”

She continued, “Why do you have to lie over something so small? Every time [Brittany] gives Jax a chance, he ruins it doing stuff like that, and then they’re back at the bottom.”

Kristen even said she’d witnessed Jax’s lies a mere 48 hours before recording the Hot Mic Podcast episode while the women were in the glam chair preparing for an event. The t-shirt designer and author said she’d gotten a text from Jax, one not different from another she received two to three weeks earlier, in which Jax asked for a recommendation for a therapist.

Kristen alleged it was the opposite of his previous Hot Mic claims in which Jax said therapy — as well as gym visits, journaling, and medicine to treat bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder — were crucial parts of his mental health journey.

“You haven’t been to therapy one time since you got out of the mental health rehabilitation center,” claimed Kristen. “He has not been to outpatient therapy one single time, and now he’s trying to tell me that his therapist just, like, left him in the dust, and he doesn’t know who to go to.”

Kristen didn’t buy Jax’s story, believing that a therapist would have instead referred him to another professional. She also didn’t buy into his claims on Hot Mic about wanting to be a mental health advocate. 

“Who the hell do you think you are?” she wondered. “I can’t take anything that comes out of his mouth.”

Despite Jax’s alleged lies, Kristen debunked Jax’s belief that Britany — or anyone — wanted to see him fail. In fact, she wants the couple’s son, Cruz Cauchi, to have a happy father, above all.

“Everyone wins if Jax succeeds,” she said.

Listen to the entire Bravo’s Hot Mic Podcast episode on Bravo and anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts. And don’t miss the entire first season of The Valley ahead of its second season premiering later this year, now available on Bravo and Peacock.

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