‘The Valley’ Finale: Jax Taylor Exposed For Calling Brittany Cartwright “Fat” And “Lazy”

Brittany Cartwright is revealing more about why she decided to leave Jax Taylor. In the season finale of The Valley, the two come face-to-face for their first on-camera conversation since they announced their split in February — and let’s just say, Cartwright’s accusations don’t exactly paint her estranged husband in the best light.

For one, Cartwright claims Taylor refused to leave their shared home, which is why she packed up her stuff and left for an Airbnb with their son, Cruz.

“I knew that he wasn’t gonna leave so I had to leave,” she tells her friends. “It was too toxic of a situation, especially for my son.”

While Taylor spent the first season of The Valley heavily criticizing Cartwright’s drinking, it appears as though his habit of partying also contributed to their separation.

“He was going out to the bar and stuff, coming home and having these horrible hangovers that would make him mean as a fucking snake,” she says. “I’m asleep [and] the next morning I wake up to Jax barreling in. Me and Cruz are in my bed together, by the way. He comes in [and says], ‘Why is Luke texting me right now, asking me if he needs somebody to talk to because of everything I’m going through?'”

Cartwright says she finally decided to pack up and leave after “hours” of screaming.

“I just hit this point and I started noticing everything he did to me,” she admits. “It just hit me like a ton of bricks or something.”

The specifics of Taylor’s alleged tirades are later revealed in a conversation between Cartwright, Kristen Doute and Zack Wickham.

“There are nights that I’ve been here, like, sometimes it gets to a scary point where … like I don’t know how to handle it,” Wickham says, to which Cartwright replies, “Because he would yell in front of you guys. He didn’t care who he embarrassed me in front of.”

Doute then adds, “Does he say, like, ‘I know I treat you like shit. I know I’m mean. I know I’ve called you fat and I’ve told you you’re fucking lazy and, oh, you’re not gonna have any friends if you guys break up?'”

Cartwright doesn’t deny that Taylor said any of those things, noting that his claim that she has no friends in Los Angeles is what threw her for a loop — and she doesn’t hesitate to bring it up during their heated sit-down.

“You screamed at me. You said horrible things to me — that I have no friends here, that nobody liked me here,” she tells Taylor, who only triggers her more when he denies her accusation. “As soon as these cameras drop, you’re going to text me a million text messages and talk horrible to me. You’re gonna rage text the shit out of me. Be real. Be real!”

The Valley is currently streaming on Peacock.