Brittany Cartwright Accuses Jax Taylor Of Putting Up “A Front” For Cameras In ‘The Valley’ Season Finale: “This Is What He Wants Everyone To See And Believe”

Much like the Vanderpump Rules Season 11 finale, The Valley‘s Season 1 finale is breaking the fourth wall.

Six months after filming wrapped, production resumed to document the fallout between Jesse Lally and Michelle Lally and Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright after both couples announced their separations in February.

In their first on-camera conversation since splitting up, which aired in tonight’s season finale, Cartwright accuses Taylor of putting up “a front” for cameras when he says he finally made an appointment to speak to a therapist.

“I think this space is good. I thought about it and I was talking to my friends. I’m going to the doctor. I have my appointment on the 26th,” Taylor says, revealing that he made the appointment the day before his sit-down with Cartwright.

She then asks, “You made it yesterday right before the cameras come up?” to which he replies, “No, I made it yesterday because that was the time to do it.”

However, Cartwright doesn’t believe Taylor’s motives for making his appointment.

“Jax has been saying he was gonna go to therapy for years now. The day before we pick cameras back up, he all the sudden has an appointment to go see the doctor? This is all a front,” she says. “This is what he wants everyone to see and believe — that he’s gonna do these things to change. I bet you money he will not do it.”

In his own confessional, Taylor admits that he never actually went to his appointment. Not only was he “afraid” to go, but he also says the office was “really far.”

“Something is wrong up here. I agree with you. I need some help,” he tells his estranged wife. “I got a lot of demons, a lot of pent-up aggression. I just usually just put it inside and I don’t talk about it until something happens and I take out my meanness on you about stuff that I’m angry about, which is not OK.”

Some of that meanness includes allegedly telling Cartwright that she has no friends in Los Angeles and that no one likes her. While Taylor denies saying such horrible things, Cartwright firmly believes she’ll get a “rage text” from him once they’re done filming their scene.

“As soon as these cameras drop, you’re going to text me a million text messages and talk horrible to me,” she says. “You’re gonna rage text the shit out of me. Be real. Be real!”

Cartwright also says her time away from Taylor has been “amazing,” noting that doesn’t want to talk to him more than she has to.

“I know that I’ve put up with a lot of crap that Jax has put me through, but I wouldn’t have Cruz if I had gotten rid of him a long time ago,” she tells the cameras. “So now I just think that now that I have Cruz and I’ve woken up from the situation, I just feel like, for his sake and for my mental health, I just can’t stay here anymore.”

The Valley is currently streaming on Peacock.