Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor have a new set of co-parenting challenges as they head into the holidays.
During an exclusive interview with Page Six’s Evan Real and Danny Murphy at BravoCon 2025, Cartwright revealed she and her ex have a plan in place for their 4-year-old son, Cruz.
“I always have Christmas,” the “Vanderpump Rules” alum told us, adding that she typically heads “home” to Kentucky, where members of her “huge” family live on a farm and are “next door neighbors.”
“And he [Cruz] has got all of his cousins and family, and like, so much love there,” Cartwright explained.
“And that’s so important for me, and I don’t ever want him to miss that. And I don’t want to miss it either.”
The TV personality, 36, said Taylor would “have his own Christmas” with their son. “We’ll see how it goes,” she added. “I gotta navigate it, because a lot has changed right now.”
The “Jax & Brittany Take Kentucky” alum also confessed that getting her divorce from Taylor, 46, finalized by the end of the year would be “the best Christmas gift.”
Cartwright also addressed Taylor’s decision to step away from “The Valley” in July to work on his sobriety, mental health and co-parenting relationship with his estranged wife.
Filming without Taylor on the show was “a lot less stressful,” Cartwright divulged. “So that was amazing.”
The former couple famously met in Las Vegas in 2015, with Cartwright later moving to Los Angeles and appearing alongside Taylor on “Vanderpump Rules.”
The duo landed one season of their own spinoff in 2016 with “Jax and Brittany Take Kentucky,” and despite a rocky relationship, married in 2019 before announcing their departure from “Vanderpump Rules” in 2020.
The reality famous couple welcomed Cruz in April 2021 — but three years later, Cartwright stunned fans by announcing her separation from Taylor.
“Jax and I are taking time apart, and I made the decision to move into another home to take some space for the sake of my mental health,” she explained on their podcast, “When Reality Hits,” in February 2024.
Cartwright added that they’d had a “particularly rough year this past year,” and said her focus was on “being the best mom to Cruz.”
Taylor, however, insisted to Page Six at the time that they were still together. “We have a child involved, and we just wanna do what’s best for our kid,” he told us, emphasizing that the separation was “not divorce” and that they were still attempting “to figure out” a plan to move forward.
Taylor subsequently entered a mental health facility in July 2024 — and a month later, Cartwright filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences.”
Cartwright was most recently linked to Brandon Hanson, with whom she was spotted vacationing in Mexico in August. She announced their split in October.
