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Jax Taylor shared what drives his habit to alcohol and cocaine, and he revealed if he has thought-about returning to consuming and medicines. Earlier this yr, Jax introduced his exit from The Valley amid his divorce from Brittany Cartwright.
Through the newest season, Jax checked into rehab and opened up about his bipolar prognosis. The star has now been sober for over 200 days. Brittany, nonetheless, claims his character hasn’t modified.
On his In The Thoughts Of Jax Taylor podcast, Jax shared that “trauma,” no less than partly, is the “drive” of his habit.
“Trauma and psychological well being points are the drive for habit, and I believe that’s 100% [true] for me,” he mentioned. “I don’t just like the style of alcohol. I don’t like snorting f**king s**t up my nostril. It’s not enjoyable. It doesn’t style good. It doesn’t really feel good. However these items make me really feel higher within the second, so I don’t have to consider my marriage. So I don’t have to consider the trauma … I don’t take into consideration my father.”
“Like I mentioned, I don’t like doing it. I hate the style of alcohol. I hate f**king my nostril burning, sneezing, and never with the ability to breathe. It sucked,” he went on. “However that is the one factor I may do to make me really feel good.”
He additionally shared that 2025 has been the “roughest yr of my life.”
“All of the stuff that I’m going by way of publicly with my marriage with the whole lot that’s occurring, my son, my prognosis, the whole lot form of drives you to drink,” he mentioned. “I haven’t had one — not even a thought — about consuming [or] going again to medicine, which I’m very, very pleased about.”
Again in July, in an interview with Us Weekly, Jax confirmed his exit from The Valley.
“After an extremely difficult yr and plenty of trustworthy conversations with my group and producers, I’ll be stepping away from the subsequent season of The Valley,” mentioned Jax in an announcement on the time. “Proper now, my focus must be on my sobriety, my psychological well being, and coparenting. Taking this time is important for me to develop into the most effective model of myself — particularly for our son, Cruz.”
