Bravo Producer Defends Having Jax Taylor Film Scenes After Rehab

It has been a number of weeks since “The Valley” viewers noticed Jax Taylor test himself into rehab throughout an earlier episode.

Within the June 17 displaying, nonetheless, the villainous actuality star returned to the group after lacking 30 days, and appeared to choose up the place he left off, bumping heads with a number of of his co-stars and his soon-to-be ex-wife, Brittany Cartwright.

Within the days main as much as Taylor’s on-air return, followers had expressed their disappointment with the community for permitting him to return to the group.

Throughout a current interview, nonetheless, one of many present’s govt producers pushed again in opposition to the criticism and defended the choice, arguing that Jax Taylor ought to have completed filming the season in order that they may inform the complete story.

“We’re all attempting to determine find out how to inform the story responsibly and pretty, in a method that’s entertaining and actual,” Alex Baskin, the present’s govt producer, advised Variety in a current interview. “However that doesn’t put a gloss on what is de facto occurring. This material is darkish!”

In an April 2025 episode, viewers noticed Taylor have a tough dialog with Kristen Doute, wherein he admitted to being a “mess” earlier than stating that he was checking right into a remedy middle to deal with issues he had about his conduct.

Cartwright, in the meantime, disputed Taylor’s claims that he had voluntarily checked right into a well being facility and implied that he had solely achieved so to remain on the present. “I feel if his job wasn’t on the road, he wouldn’t have went [to rehab],” she stated.

The mom of 1 additionally revealed that an intervention she organized with pals and family members almost ended with a name to the police to persuade him to hunt remedy.

“The cops have been going to be known as if he didn’t not less than go and attempt to get assist. I feel, like 100%, he wouldn’t have went at the moment as a result of he was nonetheless in denial,” she stated. “You needed to hit your all-time low and stuff to really wish to go get assist for your self. For some cause, I feel that he was nonetheless not at that all-time low.”

Cartwright’s revelation startled a few of her most loyal followers, who had most not too long ago questioned the Bravo community for permitting Taylor to return to the present and different applications, akin to “Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen.”

Baskin addressed these issues, nonetheless, and defended the community’s resolution to permit Taylor again into the fold.

“Our job is to inform the complete story,” he stated.

“If we didn’t inform the story in its completeness, then we’d be overlaying up one thing that actually occurred and denying Brittany the prospect to share what she had been by means of,” he continued.

Baskin defined that by permitting Taylor the prospect to movie these real-life occasions, it supplied a platform for his or her story, which focuses on all events, together with Cartwright.

Taylor additionally appeared to defend his continued presence on the present in an announcement to Selection, saying he not too long ago accomplished his “two hundredth day of sobriety from each alcohol and cocaine.”

“It has been an extended highway and continues to be as I work by means of my psychological well being points,” he added.

Taylor, 45, opened up about his decades-long dependancy to cocaine throughout a earlier interview, admitting he’d been utilizing the illicit drug since he was in his 20s.