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Brittany Mahomes had a visit from an unexpected guest while working out.
In an Instagram Story shared on Monday, March 3, Mahomes, 29, posed for a mirror selfie in the gym, which appeared to be in a garage-like space. As she panned the camera, a flock of chickens became visible on the threshold of the door.
“Back in the gym with a side of chickens,” Mahomes wrote with a laughing emoji and heart eye emoji. Mahomes tagged trainer Betina Gozo Shimonek, who reposted the video to her Instagram Story and wrote, “The queen @brittanylynne is back and with the other queens.” She added three laughing emojis and a chicken emoji.
In another image, Brittany posed with a stroller that seemingly carried daughter Golden. “My fav workout partner,” she added, with a white heart emoji.
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The trainer also shared a glimpse of her workout with Mahomes, uploading a video of her on one knee and lifting a weight. In the clip, a newborn sat in a bassinet while the stroller Brittany was pushing sat next to her.
“Triple duty: @brittanylynne’s Trainer. Makoa’s Momma. Golden’s Babysitter,” Shimonek captioned the video, alongside a laughing face emoji.
Brittany and her husband, Patrick Mahomes, welcomed daughter Golden in January. “•Golden Raye Mahomes• 1/12/25,” the couple, who tied the knot in 2022, captioned a joint Instagram post of their newborn daughter’s foot at the time. (Brittany and Patrick, 29, previously welcomed daughter Sterling in 2021 and son Bronze in 2022.)
Weeks after Golden’s arrival, Brittany stepped out to support the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback at the 2025 Super Bowl. (The Chiefs lost the game to the Philadelphia Eagles.)
Later that month, Brittany shared a glimpse of Sterling bonding with the newborn in honor of her eldest daughter’s 4th birthday. In the post, Brittany called her eldest daughter “the best big sister to Golden & Bronze and they are so lucky to have you guiding them.”
Patrick, Brittany Mahomes and children.Courtesy of Brittany Mahomes/Instagram
Brittany, who threw a Bluey-themed bash for the milestone birthday, shared a sweet tribute to Sterling.
“This sweetest, most kind little girl ever! I thank God every day for choosing me to be your mom, you have taught me so much about life and what matters most and I truly am so thankful you made me a mama,” Brittany wrote via Instagram in February. “You are the best big sister to Golden & Bronze and they are so lucky to have you guiding them your Mom and Dad love you beyond and more.”
Whether the dress code is beach formal or formal attire, choosing a wedding guest outfit can sometimes feel confusing and overwhelming. (Don’t even get me started on what “black-tie optional” is supposed to mean!) That’s why it’s smart to have a few trusty pieces on hand to take you through every type of celebration — now, you just have to worry about pairing them with the right dress or suit! It might be bold of me to say, but theScoop Slingback Block Heels from Walmart are the ultimate wedding shoes. The comfy-cute pair will get you through long cocktail hours and receptions with ease — and they look more expensive than their $28 price tag!
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What makes theScoop heels a wardrobe must-have is that they look designer without the designer price. You’ll be able to snag this classic style for just $28! These shoes are simple yet timeless, and you can adjust the strap for optimal fit. Plus, the square toe and foam insole ensure that many hours on the dance floor are in your future — minus the aches and pains that usually arrive later in the evening or the next morning.
“[A] very sturdily made heel, so you feel secure when you’re walking. I ordered the other colors, because I like them so much!” wrote one happy customer.
Although these block heels are bound to be your new go-to wedding shoes, they’ll also work for other occasions. Pair them with a skirt for date night or jeans to level up your girls’ night outfit. No matter where you rock them, one thing is for sure: They’ll quickly earn a spot in your regular footwear rotation!
Weinstein and Chapman met at a party in 2004 and began dating on and off initially. Ultimately, the pair tied the knot in 2007 and went on to welcome daughter India in 2010 followed by son Dashiell in 2013.
In October 2017, things took a turn for the duo when the New York Times published a expose claiming that Weinstein had a history of sexual harassment going back decades.
“I came of age in the 60’s and 70’s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different. That was the culture then,” Weinstein said in a statement in response to the allegations. “I have since learned it’s not an excuse, in the office — or out of it. To anyone. I realized some time ago that I needed to be a better person and my interactions with the people I work with have changed. I appreciate the way I’ve behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it. Though I’m trying to do better, I know I have a long way to go. That is my commitment.”
One week after the article was published, Chapman announced she was filing for divorce from Weinstein.
“My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions,” Chapman said in a statement to Peopleat the time. “I have chosen to leave my husband. Caring for my young children is my first priority and I ask the media for privacy at this time.”
After their split, Chapman moved on with Adrien Brody in 2019. Weinstein was found guilty of rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2020. His sentencing was overturned in April 2024 by the New York State Court of Appeals, stating that the original trial judge had prejudiced Weinstein with improper ruling. Weinstein’s new trial is set to start on Tuesday, April 15.
Keep scrolling to learn more about Weinstein and Chapman’s relationship:
“I was living in England, and I had just come out of a relationship, so it was very slow,” Chapman told Vogueof the start of their relationship in May 2018.
December 2007
Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman arrive at the Cinema Against AIDS 2007.Dave Hogan/Getty Images
The pair married at Weinstein’s waterfront Connecticut estate.
August 2010
Chapman welcomed her and Weinstein’s first child, daughter India.
April 2013
Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman, 2013.Michael Buckner/Getty Images
The duo welcomed son Dashiell.
October 2017
Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman attend the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017.Steve Granitz/WireImage
One week after Weinstein’s sexual assault scandal was revealed, Chapman filed for divorce from Weinstein.
“I sat down with my wife Georgina, who I love more than anything, and we discussed what was best for our family,” Weinstein told Us Weeklyin a statement one month after their split was announced. “We discussed the possibility of a separation and I encouraged her to do what was in her heart. In the end, she made the decision to separate.”
January 2018
According to documents obtained by Us, Weinstein and Chapman finalized the deals of their divorce. The agreement detailed a property settlement as well as a custody agreement over India and Dashiell. It also included a prenuptial agreement stating Weinstein would owe Chapman more money, given that they were married for more than 10 years.
“My head was spinning and it was difficult because the first article was about a time long before I’d ever met him, so there was a minute where I couldn’t make an informed decision,” she told Vogue at the time. “And then the stories expanded and I realized that this wasn’t an isolated incident. And I knew that I needed to step away and take the kids out of here.”
The fashion designer noted that she was “never” suspicious about Weinstein’s behavior during their 10 years of marriage.
“That’s what makes this so incredibly painful: I had what I thought was a very happy marriage,” she told the outlet. “I loved my life. … He was a wonderful partner to me. He was a friend and a confidant and a supporter.”
“Harvey’s only thoughts are happiness for his family and the hope that his children are always cared for and happy,” Weinstein’s publicist, Juda Engelmayer, said in a statement to Us. “He loves them and hopes that they know it, and that one day soon, he can be closer to them.”
March 2025
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Weinstein reacted to the news that Brody mentioned Weinstein’s kids with Chapman in the actor’s 2025 Oscars acceptance speech after winning Best Actor.
“Harvey is happy for Georgina and grateful that his kids are being loved and cared for as they deserve to be,” Weinstein’s rep Engelmayer said in a statement to Us.
Jordan Chiles is not backing down in her fight to regain the bronze medal she believes she earned at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Chiles, 23, appeared on Good Morning America Tuesday, March 4, and discussed her mental state seven months removed from the controversial ruling at the Games.
“I can tell you I’m doing way better than I was when it first happened,” Chiles said on GMA.
She continued, “I definitely can only do so much for myself, really focus on my mental, and knowing that I’ve been at UCLA and competing with the team has really helped with that. I’m going to continue to fight and understand that I can only control what I can do with myself. And let everything else just be on the backend of whether my lawyer, my attorney are doing whatever they can to continue to fight for that.”
Chiles is currently in the midst of her junior season on the UCLA Bruins’ gymnastics team. She returned to the team last year after being stripped of a bronze medal in the women’s individual floor exercise routine in August 2024.
After Chiles’ coach, Cecile Landi, raised an inquiry about Chiles’ score, she judges bumped her up one-tenth of a point. The score adjustment moved Chiles into third place and Romania’s Ana Bărbosu to fourth.
The Romanian Gymnastics Federation then filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), challenging the timeliness of the inquiry. The Federation argued it was submitted four seconds after the one-minute appeal window.
Eventually, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sided with the Romanian Federation and awarded the bronze medal to Bărbosu, 18.
Chiles’ representatives have since filed two appeals in the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, most recently in September 2024. USA Gymnastics has also filed a separate appeal.
The appeals asked the court to require CAS to re-open the proceedings and consider their audio and video evidence — which comes from the Netflix camera crews who were in Paris filming Simone Biles’ docuseries, Rising — and allegedly disproves the timeline laid out in the initial ruling.
Whether or not she ever gets her medal back, Chiles insisted she’s at peace with things.
“I’m just going to continue on to move with life,” she said on GMA. “I can’t control what happens at the end of the day. I just know what’s right with me and that I’m always just going to continue to look forward.”
Denise Richards’ daughter, Lola Sheen, chose faith over fear when she signed up for reality TV.
“I’m a follower of Jesus… [and] I really sat on it for a while with the Lord and I was like, ‘I don’t want to misinterpret you to others, but I know that this is an opportunity to shine His light,’” Lola, 19, exclusively shared with Us Weekly before the Tuesday, March 4, premiere of Denise Richards and Her Wild Things. “So then I decided to do it.”
One of the biggest things preventing Lola from jumping in was her rocky relationship with older sister Sami Sheen.
For nearly a year, the pair blocked each other on social media and butted heads over a variety of topics.
“We are sisters so we fight, but at the time we were having problems and so I never wanted to misinterpret Christ to anybody,” Lola explained. “That’s why I hesitated, but I realized I’m not perfect.”
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In Denise Richards and Her Wild Things, Richards, 54, allowed cameras to document her life as a working actress, wife to Aaron Phyphers and mother in the public eye. (In addition to Sami, 20, and Lola — who she shares with ex-husband Charlie Sheen — Richards also adopted Eloise, 13, in 2011.)
“I wanted the girls to really want to do it, and I think it’s also a great time for them,” Richards explained to Us. “They’ve always lived basically in the shadows of their parents where they’re ‘the daughters of,’ and it’s a nice time for them to be able to be themselves and shine and be Sami and Lola.”
While Lola was hesitant to jump right in, Sami was ready for the cameras to capture her reality.
“I’m actually the complete opposite,” she said when addressing her sister’s initial fears. “I’ve been wanting a reality show for so long, and I’m so happy and so grateful that we finally have our own show. It was really fun filming it, and I love it.”
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Before viewers sit down and enjoy the show, Richards reminded fans that she is far from perfect. At the same time, she believes her family’s reality will be relatable to many who choose to watch.
“I wanted us to just live our life,” Richards said when explaining the goal of the show. “At the end of the day, I’m a mom that deals with challenges like a lot of other parents dealing with kids that are siblings and trying to let your kids grow up and be on their own. I think that there’s a lot in our show, a lot of things that a lot of people can relate to.”
Denise Richards and Her Wild Things premieres on Bravo Tuesday, March 4, at 9 p.m. ET. Viewers can stream episodes the next day on Peacock.
Meghan Markle is showing off her DIY skills on her new Netflix show.
The eight-episode With Love, Meghanseries gave a glimpse of the Duchess of Sussex’s life in Montecito, California, with husband Prince Harry — and shared tips on baking, cooking, crafting and hosting while getting visits from several famous faces. (The couple, who tied the knot in 2018, share son Archie, 5, and daughter Lilibet, 3.)
While incorporating fresh produce from her gardens and eggs from her family’s chicken coop (called Archie’s Chick Inn), Meghan, 43, prepared dishes including multiple crudité platters, fruit rainbows, last-minute frittata — for pal Mindy Kaling — and homemade coffee creamer, sun tea and mason-jar cocktails.
“I love feeding people,” she said. “It’s my love language. The only thing better than eating food is making food for someone and watching them eat it with delight.”
Not all of the duchess’ creations are edible, though. The lifestyle series also includes the Suits alum making crafts, homemade gifts and more.
Scroll down to see the unusual things Meghan makes in her Netflix show:
Homemade Bath Salts
While preparing for an overnight visit from Suits makeup artist turned longtime pal Daniel Martin, Meghan shared her love of creating a guest room experience — including what’s at the side of the bed for them and “what’s in the bathroom for them to have a beautiful soak.”
Meghan made homemade bath salts using arnica, lavender and pink himalayan sea salt and placed the mixture inside a cute mason jar.
Kids’ Party Gift Bags
Prepping for a “mock-up tea party” with fellow mom Kaling, Meghan showed viewers how to make kids party gift bags with gardening tools, seeds, compostable pots and manuka honey sticks.
Fruit Rainbows
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Meghan demonstrated how to make a giant fruit rainbow on a wooden board, joined by Kaling to cut bananas for the clouds. (She also made a miniature, single-serving fruit rainbow with yogurt suitable for a kid’s breakfast.) The pair reminisced on their time working on shows — Meghan worked on Suits for eight years while Kaling was on The Office for seven.
Pickled Strawberries
Visiting L.A.-based celebrity chef Roy Choi taught the duchess how to make all sort of pickles (or “quickles”) — including pickled strawberries, which Us is now eager to try.
Speaking of strawberries, while making ice cream parfaits with homemade strawberry preserves, Meghan recalled picking fresh strawberries with her daughter and then using them to make the preserves. “Lili and I made the batch together,” Meghan said. “‘No mama, I’ll do it, I’ll stir it, I’ll mash it … she’s proud. That part felt good!”
Take-Home Dog Treats
In honor of Delfina Blaquier’s visit, Meghan made take-home treats for her dog — including peanut butter, eggs and flour. (Blaquier is the wife of Harry’s pal Nachos Figueras.)
While reflecting on her furry friends, Meghan said, “They provide us with unconditional love so they get unconditional PB dog biscuits.” (She fed one treat to her own elderly dog, Guy, who makes frequent appearances on the series. The cute beagle has since passed away.)
Lavender Cooling Towels
When it comes to lavender-soaked towels — perfect to cool down after a hike with Blacquier — Meghan called it one of those “easy surprising delights that…will bring a lot of joy” and bring a “hotel experience at home.”
Harvest Basket
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Before pal Vicky Tsai arrived, Meghan created a bountiful harvest basket for her from her garden — plus a carton of eggs with a custom label that reads, “Archie’s Chick Inn.”
“You’re not trying to create a harvest basket one meal,” she said. “You’re trying to create moments that they can pick from and each time they do that, they feel thought of.”
Meghan, who shared that she loves to keep the leaves on vegetables in harvest baskets and crudité platters for visual interest, offered a tip for those without a garden.
“We don’t all have a garden like this, I fully recognize that, I didn’t grow up with a garden like this,” she said. “But if you have a farmers’ market then you can definitely find something that if you have a bite of it and go ‘I wish they could try it!’ Then share it.”
Homemade Coffee Creamer
Despite coffee “not typically” being Meghan’s thing, she prepared the drink for Tsai complete with an indulgent homemade creamer with cream, condensed milk and vanilla bean.
Chili Oil
Meghan showed viewers how to make chili oil, explaining that she had a high tolerance for spice and is “ushering my family into my palate, but I love it.”
Several of Hollywood’s biggest stars have opened up about their ups and downs growing up in the Mormon church.
Katherine Heigl’s family converted to the religion after her brother, Jason, died in 1986 of injuries suffered in a car accident. “Both my parents felt a great desire for answers, and they found an answer in the Mormon church — or answers they could live with, anyway, because there really are none,” she told Vanity Fair in January 2008. “I give my parents unbelievable credit for pulling it together, and I give the Mormon church a lot of credit for helping them to do that.”
Although the Grey’s Anatomy alum is no longer practicing, her upbringing as a Latter-day Saint influenced her relationship with Josh Kelley, whom she wed in December 2007.
“I … didn’t want to live together before we were married. I still have enough Mormon in me — not a lot, but enough — that I wanted to keep that a little bit sacred,” she told the outlet.
Keep scrolling to see which celebrities grew up in the Mormon church — and what they’ve said about the religion:
The Chelsea Lately alum talked about growing up with a Jewish father and a Mormon mother during a February 2020 conversation with Judy Blume at the MAKERS Conference.
“I grew up as a Jew and Mormon … so we had to choose and I chose Jewish, obviously, because Mormonism is so ridiculous,” the comedian said.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum told Intelligencer in April 2012 that she no longer considered herself to be “very Mormon” despite being raised in the faith.
“My problems with the church have to do with its stance on homosexuality, and other things,” she told the outlet.
The late Fast and the Furious star left the church as an adult. During a December 2013 interview with GQ, Walker shared that his decision to keep working instead of staying at home with his daughter, Meadow, went against the parenting philosophy he was raised with.
“I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough, but also very freeing,” he said, noting that his daughter wanted him “to keep acting so she can travel around the world with me.”
“I’m not practicing, but I’m so glad I was raised Mormon,” Julianne told the New York Post in October 2013. The Footloose actress added that she grew up in a household where the rules were: “No sex before marriage, no drinking, no caffeine, no smoking, no swear words, no R-rated movies.”
Derek, for his part, no longer considers himself a member of the church either. He described his childhood as “very Mormon” in his August 2014 memoir, Taking the Lead: Lessons From a Life in Motion.
Gosling told Beliefnet in October 2007 that he didn’t identify with Mormon theology despite his upbringing in the church. “I wasn’t really Mormon, my parents were,” he said at the time. “My mom was really cool. She said, ‘This is an option, but this isn't the only option. This is an idea, but this isn’t the only idea. You have to find your own truth.’ I never really could identify with it.”
Noting that there are “good things about going to church,” Gosling went on to credit being Mormon with helping him socialize at a young age. “You have to pray in public, shake a lot of hands, talk in public, sing in church, stuff like that,” he said. “It has definitely stayed with me.”
The American Idol alum decided to take a step back from the church after coming out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community in June 2021.
During a November 2022 conversation with ABC News’ Steve Osunsami, Archuleta talked about the “faith crisis” he had after a leader in his church tried to invalidate his sexuality.
"I think three times in that conversation he said, 'Well, maybe we just need to find you a good girl. Maybe you can find a good girl,'" he recalled. "And I'm like, 'That's not the solution.'"
Despite his adverse experiences with the religion, the Florida native defended its practitioners.
"I would say, it's the church structure more than the people. Because the people have been amazing,” he said.
"I grew up as a Mormon and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie,” Adams told The Sun in June 2013. “I’m very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over, too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it — at least, I can’t.”
Adams added that Mormonism’s strict rules — which include a ban on drinking coffee and alcohol — remain a source of guilt. "Even when I go out with friends and we go overboard at bars or clubs, I wake up the next morning feeling a bit conflicted about having had too much fun,” she added.
Celebrities, they’re just like Us! Except they travel with luggage that costs four figures. Martha Stewart has been spotted with a Rimowa carry-on suitcase (along with larger versions) that costs a whopping $1,430. It’s made with high-end anodized aluminum and filled with convenient features that make traveling as easy as possible. As nice as that sounds, dropping that much on one suitcase isn’t feasible for most people. But have no fear, as we found that the AnyZip Aluminum Zipperless Luggage gives the same effect without breaking the bank.
The Rimowa lookalike has a similar aluminum frame, complete with metal corner protectors, double spinner wheels and built-in Transportation Security Administration (TSA) locks. The zipperless model is available in silver so you can match with Stewart, but you can also choose from seven other hues, including neutrals and fun pops of colors.
The AnyZip aluminum suitcase is available in 20-, 24- and 28-inch styles. Even if you get the largest size and with the upgraded TSA lock, you’ll still only be paying $190. A much easier price to digest, eh?
Stewart isn’t the only one who loves Rimowa. Rihanna, Austin Butler, Zendaya, Gigi Hadid, Richard Madden and more celebrities have been spotted rolling the luggage around airports. While we’re sure they love the brand, shoppers seem equally as zealous with the inexpensive version.
“The color adds flair to my travels, it’s super lightweight and those 360-degree spinner wheels are a breeze to maneuver,” writes one five-star reviewer. “Surprisingly durable, too. Highly recommended for style and practicality!”
“I’m super happy with this luggage!” another happy shopper shares. “It looks really sleek and feels sturdy, especially with the reinforced corners, so I don’t have to worry about my stuff getting damaged. The wheels roll like a dream, and it’s so easy to zip through airports now. Plus, the built-in TSA locks are a nice touch for peace of mind.”
We take as many style cues as we can from the one and only Stewart. However, until our budgets allow for investment luggage, we’ll be copying her style with wallet-friendly alternatives.
As The Valley stars continue to wait for their divorce to be finalized after five years of marriage, there is one man who has been a topic of discussion.
During the Tuesday, March 4, episode of Alex Baskin’s “Hot Mic” podcast, Taylor, 45, recalled the wide variety of emotions he felt after he discovered Cartwright, 36, was “hooking up with my friend” Sensley.
“I found out by looking at her phone. I saw that she was texting this guy Julian,” Taylor claimed. “I didn’t know how to handle it. So what do you do? Jump back into drugs.”
In the candid podcast, Taylor admitted to being an addict and struggling with cocaine and alcohol. At the time of the podcast taping, he was 83 days sober.
“For many years I’ve depended on alcohol and drugs as a way to cope and mask many deeper issues,” Taylor said in a statement to Us Weekly on March 4. “This past year has been the hardest year of my life but also the most eye opening and transformative. Coming to terms with my many mental health challenges and being honest about my addiction — both with myself and others has been a crucial part of my healing. It’s been a day-by-day process, but I’m committed to my recovery and working towards a healthier future in order to be a better person and someone my son will be proud of one day.”
While it’s unclear if Sensley’s involvement with Cartwright will come up during season 2 of The Valley, Us Weekly is learning more about this athlete: Keep reading to learn more about Cartwright’s former fling:
Julian Sensley Has (Basketball) Game
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Sensley is a former college basketball player who played under Hawaii Athletics. The athlete eventually played for The Rio Grande Valley Vipers, an American professional basketball team of the NBA G League based in Edinburg, Texas. The franchise was affiliated with the Houston Rockets.
Sadly, Sensley never got a chance to play in the NBA after he was left undrafted in the 2006 NBA draft.
Julian Sensley’s Connection to LaLa Kent and Jax Taylor
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In an October 2024 episode of her “Get Them LaLa” podcast, Kent, 34, said she previously dated Sensley before he connected with Cartwright.
“I start bringing [Julian] around the group … I would bring him on double dates, group dates, so that’s how Jax and Brittany know him,” Kent said during the podcast. “It was like … Jax, Janet [Caperna]’s husband, Jason [Caperna], and then Julian would go. They would go out and have, like, guys nights and Julian would FaceTime me and it was just a nice distraction.”
Kent and Sensley’s romance, which began after the athlete slid into her Facebook DM after her split from Randall Emmett in October 2021, came to an end after she conducted a “background check” and called things off.
Julian Sensley’s Current Status With Brittany Cartwright
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“[Jax and I] did not have a no dating in the friend group policy,” Cartwright shared on an episode of Bravo’s “Hot Mic” podcast. “We never spoke about that because why would we? First off, I didn’t think I was going to hook up with his friend. It wasn’t planned. I wasn’t trying to go after one of his friends. That’s not how it happened.”
While she admitted to hooking up with Sensley, she made it clear that she is single. Instead, she said she was “going with the flow” and picturing a future with a man who has kids.
Julian Sensley’s Acting Career
Sensley made his acting debut on the small screen thanks to a guest-starring role on Magnum P.I. in 2021. Since then, the actor has gone on to appear on NCIS: Hawaii and episodes of Rescue: Hi-Surf. Both shows are filmed in his home state of Hawaii.
Julian Sensley’s History With Hawaii
Before moving to Los Angeles for his acting career, Sensley was making waves in the Aloha state with his athletic skills. After learning how to surf and bodyboard as a kid, Sensley turned his attention to basketball.
As a high school senior, the student measured 6-foot-9 and 235 pounds with ESPN calling him the “greatest player ever produced in the Islands.”
“I was always pretty big for my age, so they didn’t always know that I was so young,” Sensley told ESPN around 2000. “I was always the youngest. But I could play, I could always play.”
Michelle Trachtenberg was reportedly working on a big project before her untimely death at age 39
Director Casey Tebotold TMZ on Monday, March 3, that Trachtenberg had written a screenplay based on the book Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel. According to Tebo, it was one of the best screenplays he’d read and the pair were in talks with a studio to make the potential film a reality.
Toy Monster is an exposé written by Jerry Oppenheimer. The book divulges into the dark side of the toy company behind Barbie, Hot Wheels and more.
Tebo and the studio have reportedly paused the discussions following Trachtenberg’s unexpected passing, according to the director. However, Tebo said he is determined to have the project proceed at some point in honor of the late actress.
Us Weekly confirmed on February 26 that Trachtenberg was found unconscious inside her New York City apartment. Police sources told Us that the incident was not believed to be suspicious. Trachtenberg’s rep later confirmed her death. She was 39.
“It is with great sadness to confirm that Michelle Trachtenberg has passed away,” Trachtenberg’s rep told Us in a statement. “The family requests privacy for their loss. There are no further details at this time.”
“Michelle, listen to me. Listen. I love you. I will always love you,” Sarah Michelle Gellar, who starred in Buffy the Vampire Slayer alongside Trachtenberg, wrote via Instagram in February, quoting a scene between their characters before adding in Trachtenberg’s iconic line from the series’ musical episode: “‘The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. I will be brave. I will live… for you.’ .’”
Princess Eugenie, a longtime friend of the late actress, also penned a touching tribute for her pal.
“Goodbye, special friend. You are so loved and missed,” Eugenie, 34, wrote via her Instagram Stories last month. “Thank you for so many memories of laughter and fun. You were so thoughtful and generous and soooo funny.”
One day after news broke of her passing, Trachtenberg’s cause of death was officially listed as “undetermined” because her family objected to an autopsy, the city medical examiner’s office told the New York Post.
Multiple sources told Us that Trachtenberg had undergone a liver transplant before her death. It is unclear whether the medical procedure played a role.
Before her passing, Trachtenberg was reportedly expected to make a public appearance at the upcoming SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. Trachtenberg had a role in the film Spyral, which will be screened at SXSW.
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Everyone wants to know why Sterling K. Brown’s Paradise character didn’t try harder to save his wife’s life — including the actor’s real-life spouse.
Ryan Michelle Bathe shared her reaction via TikTok ahead of the Tuesday, March 4, season finale in several videos of her watching the hit Hulu series.
“Why didn’t you tell her not to go to Atlanta? Why you ain’t tell her not to go to Atlanta?” Bathe, 48, asked, to which Brown, also 48, replied off screen, “I told her, ‘Don’t go.'”
Bathe noted that Brown’s character, Xavier, could have done more to ensure his onscreen wife’s survival. “If someone tells me not to go to Atlanta, you should give me more than just, ‘Don’t go’ and a kiss,” she continued. “She is about to lose her life.”
Hulu’s political thriller Paradise, which premiered in January, marks a reunion for Brown and creator Dan Fogelman after their time on This Is Us.Paradise initially appeared to be set in a serene and wealthy community forced to face the realities of a shocking murder. In typical Fogelman fashion, however, there was a twist at the end of the premiere when Paradise was revealed to be an underground bunker housing the world’s most prominent individuals after an apocalyptic event destroyed the rest of humanity.
Through various flashbacks, the audience learned that Xavier knew about the upcoming end of the world and tried to convince his wife not to leave for a trip. She chose to go and was ultimately left to her own devices when President Cal (James Marsden) couldn’t reunite her with Xavier in time.
Paradise’s cast spoke to Us Weekly about how they kept the show a secret before its premiere.
“The biggest lengths [we had to go through to keep the twist secret] are happening now when we’re actually talking to people about it,” Julianne Nicholson told Us in January. “When we were on set, everybody knows what’s up, so we don’t have to be that secretive.”
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She continued: “But now the trick is how do you grab people’s attention and assure them that this is something different without giving away any of the details? But we’re very excited for people to get on the ride with us.”
In addition to the bunker reveal, Marsden’s character was killed off minutes into the premiere. While it was already revealed that Paradise would be following the high stakes investigation into Cal’s death, the first three episodes introduced several suspects who could have benefited from the former president’s death.
“Whenever the scripts would come out, they weren’t secretive. I’ve been on projects in which they would not release the script until you were ready to shoot those pages,” Sarah Shahi shared with Us. “But then this one, they were not selfish with their scripts. The minute one was ready to come out, they would send it over to us.”
Nicholson was thrilled to see the show utilizing Marsden’s skills as an actor, adding, “He’s James Marsden. He is one of the most charming, affable, funny, lovable and handsome people. I think he also has a self-deprecating side of himself that I saw within this character that makes you feel for him.”
All episodes of Paradise are currently streaming on Hulu.
“My husband and I, when we first got married, we thought about if we had kids, what would they look like?” Parton, 79, shared withThe Guardian in December 2014. “Would they be tall — because he’s tall? Or would they be little squats like me? If we’d had a girl, she was gonna be called Carla. We talked about it, and we dreamed it, but it wasn’t meant to be. Now that we’re older? We’re glad.”
Instead of having children of her own, Parton has spent much of her career showcasing her maternal instincts by helping countless children around the world.
In 1995, the “9 to 5” singer launched Imagination Library, a book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age 5, no matter their family’s income.
“God has a plan for everything,” Parton said on the Today show in October 2017 after releasing her first children’s album I Believe In You. “I think it probably was his plan for me not to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine. And they are now.”
Throughout her marriage to Dean, Parton praised her husband as being “very independent,” allowing her the freedom to build a successful career while standing in the spotlight on her own.
“I think a big part of my whole success is the fact that I was free to work,” she said during a November 2020 episode of Apple TV+’s The Oprah Conversation. “If I hadn’t had the freedom to work, I wouldn’t have done all the things I’ve done. I wouldn’t be in a position to do all of the things I’m doing now.”
While there was a period in Parton’s relationship where she thought kids would be part of her future with Dean, a battle with endometriosis complicated her fertility journey.
According to the Mayo Clinic, endometriosis is an often painful condition in which tissue similar to the uterine lining grows outside the uterus, causing pain, irregular periods and infertility.
Despite her health issue, Parton made it clear prior to her husband’s passing that the pair lived their lives without any regrets.
“I’m very close to my family — five of my younger brothers and sisters lived with me and Carl for many years — and we’re very close to our nieces and nephews,” she told Billboard in October 2014. “Now that Carl and I are older, we often say, ‘Aren’t you glad we didn’t have kids? Now we don’t have kids to worry about.’”
“I have substance issues primarily with cocaine,” Taylor revealed in March 2025 during an episode of the “Hot Mic” podcast, noting, “It’s hard to say out loud.”
The Valley star explained that he’d been dealing with the addiction “on and off since I was 23.” Taylor recalled having “times where I would stop doing it, but then there were times where I’d go heavy on it.” (At the time of his interview, he was 83 days clean and sober.)
Lovato, meanwhile, has been open about her drug and alcohol issues that have been public since her first stint in rehab in 2010.
“My first time doing coke I was 17, working on Disney Channel, and I was with a couple friends and they introduced me to it. I was scared because my mom always told me your heart could just burst if you do it. But I did it anyways and I loved it,” Lovato confessed in 2017’s Simply Complicated documentary.
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“Everything I was doing is on my own, but I was just on that train, and I couldn't get off,” Taylor said in the March 2025 podcast, claiming that the Vanderpump Rules producers didn’t know how bad his drug issues were when he was on the show. He explained he doesn’t think he has an “alcohol problem” but said that drinking and doing drugs “go hand in hand” for him.
Taylor confessed, “I can't do cocaine without drinking. So I just gave up both. And I'm proud to say I'm 82, 83 days sober right now.”
“This year, it was probably the hardest year of my life. I would say my father's death was the hardest year until this year,” Taylor reflected. “I'm going through a divorce right now, which is extremely difficult. And that's when Brittany [Cartwright] and I separated. That's when the addiction got worse. I literally lost control. I think at a point [I] hit rock bottom and I had to go to rehab.”
After several seasons on Summer House, Radke stopped drinking in2021. Radke later revealed his past drug use, which hit an all-time high in fall 2020 after his brother Curtis died.
“I went right back into doing drugs and drinking all the time, but I was doing it alone,” Radke recalled of the dark time during a February 2025 appearance on “The Viall Files” podcast. “I would drink all day by myself and do cocaine by myself in my apartment, and, like, call people, text people, say crazy s---. It just was on this downward spiral.”
He recalled doing coke for the first time during a spring break trip to Mexico in college. When his brother died, he did it even more, recalling “holding a jar of cocaine in my hand” while reading an article online about him allegedly coping with Curtis’ death so well. Radke admitted that at that moment he “felt like an imposter.”
“I know five years ago, if you I would have thought I would have ever admitted publicly I had a cocaine problem, you would have been crazy,” he said. “But, now, it's like, let's go.”
The actor began drinking in his youth, revealing on a March 2021 “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast episode that his drinking got worse after his father died in a car accident. “I was an F-up,” he confessed. Allen’s drug and alcohol issues came to a head in 1978 when he was arrested at a Michigan airport with more than a pound of cocaine in his luggage at the age of 23.
The Toy Story star served a little more than two years behind bars for the offense but has since turned his life around. As of 2021 he was 23 years sober. “I just shut up and did what I was told,” Allen said of his prison stay. “It was the first time ever I did what I was told and played the game. I learned literally how to live day by day. And I learned how to shut up. You definitely want to learn how to shut up.”
One year prior, Allen said on The Kelly Clarkson Show, “It doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a day-to-day thing.”
The Iron Man actor was arrested several times between 1996 and 2000 for drug-related charges. In 1996, Downey Jr. was arrested for possession of cocaine, heroin and an unloaded gun and was sentenced to three years’ probation and drug testing. When he was arrested in April 2001, he entered a rehab facility and later pleaded guilty to cocaine possession and sentenced to three years’ probation.
Since becoming sober in 2003, Downey has been vocal about his past struggles, which began as a child since his father allegedly supplied him with drugs. "Not having done drugs for literally five or six years is a lifetime,” he explained during an October 2010 interview with Playboy. "I think of myself as someone who has no desire, use for or conscious memory of that life. And yet I don't shut the door on it, and I don't pretend it didn't happen."
The Aerosmith singer told Dateline in 2011 that during the band’s heyday, in the 1970s and 1980s, they had a cubby off stage to hold their cocaine. “I needed blow,” Tyler said at the time. “I needed cocaine. I needed it.”
He recalled his addiction taking his children and marriages “away” from him. “I was on my knees.” Tyler, who got sober in the mid-80s, later relapsed. Following a binge on cocaine and pills in 2009, he checked into rehab that December. (He became addicted to prescription meds in 2006 while treating hepatitis C.)
Looking back at his darker days, Tyler told Australia’s 60 Minutes that he “realistically” spent “5 or 6” million on drugs “easy.” He joked, “You could also say I snorted half of Peru, but, you know, it's what we did."
Barrymore had a wild childhood after becoming a star when she was just 7 years old. She has been open about doing drugs and drinking at a young age in part because partying was commonplace in her household.
"It really is a recipe for disaster," she said on the September 2018 episode of Norm Macdonald Has a Show of becoming famous so young. "But you know what's exciting? I got my s--- over with at, like, 14. Like, midlife crisis, institutionalized, blacklisted, no family, like, got it done, and then got into the cycle of being my own parent, figuring it out.”
When asked if she missed cocaine, Barrymore said, “No. Oh, God. It’s been a very long time, but no. Nothing would make me have a panic attack and seem like a bigger nightmare.”
She explained, “I drink, I enjoy my life and get out of my own head. It’s not that I’m this militant person of clarity and presence but [cocaine] literally seems like my worst nightmare right now.”
The bestselling author revealed to Rolling Stone in October 2014 that he's “had a drug problem since college.” He recalled drinking at the age of 18 and thinking he was “an alcoholic” around 1978 or 1979. He subsequently began doing drugs. “Yeah, coke. I was a heavy user from 1978 to 1986, something like that,” King said.
“That whole time is pretty hazy to me. I just didn’t use it around people,” he recalled. “And I wasn’t a social drinker. I used to say that I didn’t want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.”
King previously discussed his drug addiction during a September 2000 interview with The Guardian. “With alcohol I was just an alcoholic personality. But it was a slow growing thing, compared to the drugs, that is I drank x amount in 1975 and in 1976 it was, maybe, x plus 20,” he said.
“Beer was what I wanted, but if I couldn't get beer, I'd drink anything else really. The drugs were different,” King explained. “With cocaine, one snort, and it just owned me body and soul. Something in my system wanted that, and once cocaine was there it was like the missing link: click. Like when you turn on lights it's on or off, there's no halfway. Cocaine was like my 'on' switch.”
Depp discussed his past drug use during his defamation trial against Amber Heard in 2022. "We've had cocaine together maybe a couple of times," the actor said on the stand, joking, "I once gave Marilyn Manson a pill so that he would stop talking so much."
Heard’s lawyer also read Depp’s alleged text messages about his addiction, one of which reportedly said, “Need more whitey stuff ASAP, brother man. And the E business please. I’m in bad, bad shape. Say nothing to nobody.” Depp explained that “More whitey stuff” was a “reference to cocaine, but there’s nothing here that says that I ingested the drug.”
The text messages were presented as evidence to show Depp’s alleged drug use and how he acted once under the influence. (Depp sued Heard for defamation in 2019 after she wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post and called herself a domestic abuse survivor. Depp won the case and a judge awarded him $15 million in damages. Head appealed the decision and the exes settled the case in December 2022.)
The musician recalled in his December 2024 documentary Elton John: Never Too Late having “mountains of coke coming out of our noses” with John Lennon during their heyday. John recalled someone knocking at the door and Lennon thinking it was the police. The Beatles singer allegedly didn’t believe John when he said it was Andy Warhol so they didn’t let him in, “That was the fun part of cocaine,” John teased.
John previously told Today in October 2019 that he liked doing cocaine because “I could talk” and it was the drug that “opened me up.” (The “Tiny Dancer” singer got clean in 1990 after his friend died from AIDS.)
“I couldn’t go 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine, and I would bring it on airplanes,” Lovato told Access Hollywood in December 2013 after going to rehab three years prior. “I would smuggle it basically and just wait until everyone in first class would go to sleep, and I would do it right there. I’d sneak to the bathroom, and I’d do it. That’s how difficult it got and that was even with somebody [with me]. I had a sober companion, somebody who was watching me 24/7 and living with me [and] I was able to hide it from them as well.”
The singer, who suffered a near-death overdose in 2018, recalled during an August 2022 “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she “started experimenting” with drugs when she was 12 or 13. "I got into a car accident and they prescribed me opiates,” Lovato said. “My mom didn't think she would have to lock up the opiates from her 13-year-old daughter but I was already drinking at that point. I had been bullied and was looking for an escape."
Lovato tried coke for the first time at 17. "And, like, loved it too much and then kinda bled into me going to treatment right after I turned 18.” Lovato revealed in 2021 that she cut out nearly all substances after her 2018 overdose, but not marijuana and alcohol. By 2022, Lovato released an album she said was done while “clean and sober.”
Suvari detailed her ups and downs in her memoir, The Great Peace, which she released in July 2021. In the book, she recalled turning to drugs after being raped. “I took drugs to numb myself from the pain," she wrote. "Alcohol. Pot. Coke. Crystal meth. Acid. Ecstasy. Mushrooms. Mescaline. It was my way of detaching from the hell of my existence — and surviving."
The Jackass star recalled an all-time low with his drug addiction during a January 2019 appearance on In Depth With Graham Bensinger. “I had this drug dealer, he lived very close by … I would go over to [his] house if he didn’t answer my call … sometimes I would show up and the door would be unlocked but he would be, like, passed out, ‘cause he was very much a drug user as well as a dealer,” he explained.
Steve-O recalled a time he went over to the house and found his dealer passed out next to “a very noticeable residue of cocaine” on the table.
“I went over to this table to scrape up a pile of cocaine to snort it, but as I had sat down looking at it, there was, of course, blood had been squirted,” he said, noting the dealer was HIV-positive and had clearly gotten blood on the walls and surrounding area while injecting himself. “You could see, like, the little tiny little blood splatter, ya know, on the residue.”
Steve-O confessed that the blood didn’t deter him from snorting the pile. “This is how desperate and pathetic my addiction was, that I sat there, like, knowingly scraping up this tainted, like, blood cocaine and uh, I sat there and snorted it,” he said. “Which is so f—d up — I snorted the blood of an intravenous drug user.” He didn’t contract HIV after the incident, but revealed he got sober in 2008.
The Parks and Recreation alum detailed her past drug use in her 2014 memoir, Yes Please, including cocaine. "I tried cocaine, which I instantly loved but eventually hated," Poehler wrote. "Cocaine is terrific if you want to hang out with people you don't know very well and play ping-pong all night," she explained. However, "it's bad for almost everything else … the day after cocaine is rough."
Poehler recalled making changes to her lifestyle, which also included cutting down on weed. "I can't perform, drive or write stoned, and therefore I smoke pot a lot less than I used to," she wrote, noting her sons, Archie and Abel, contributed to her new outlook.
Quaid told NBC in 2018 that “there was a completely different attitude” toward cocaine in the 1960s and 1970s when he grew up. “It was even in some movie budgets,” he claimed, noting that the relaxed idea of the drug led to his cocaine addiction in the 1980s.
“I was basically doing cocaine pretty much on a daily basis during the '80s," the Parent Trap actor confessed. "I spent many, many a night screaming at God to 'Please take this away from me and I'll never do it again, cause I've only got an hour before I have to be at work.' Then at 4 o'clock in the afternoon I'd go, 'Oh it's not so bad.'"
Quaid recalled having “a white light experience” where he said, “I saw myself either dead or losing everything that meant anything to me." At the time, he sat down with then-fiancée Meg Ryan and told her he needed help, which he got. "That was the end of the love affair with me and cocaine,” he said. (Quaid and Ryan were married from 1991 to 2001 and share son Jack Quaid.)
Brittany Cartwright broke her silence after estranged husband Jax Taylor revealed he’s been struggling with cocaine addiction for years.
“I’m glad that he finally admitted to what was really going on,” Cartwright, 36, said in a statement on Tuesday, March 4, to People. “For the first time, I can speak openly about the extent of trauma he’s instilled on our family over the years.”
She continued. “I’ve tried desperately to help him without success. I pray that one day he completely knocks this addiction, but I’m skeptical. His behaviors are still alarming and his treatment plan seems to be the bare minimum.”
Cartwright’s comments come after Taylor, 45, opened up about his ups and downs with addiction on the Tuesday episode of Alex Baskin’s “Hot Mic” podcast.
“I have substance issues primarily with cocaine,” Taylor revealed for the first time publicly, noting, “It’s hard to say out loud.”
The reality star explained that he’s been dealing with the addiction “on and off since I was 23.” Taylor recalled having “times where I would stop doing it, but then there were times where I’d go heavy on it.”
Taylor said that during his time on Vanderpump Rules — he exited the show in 2020 after eight seasons — he kept his struggles under wraps.
“Everything I was doing is on my own, but I was just on that train, and I couldn’t get off,” he shared, adding that he doesn’t think he has an “alcohol problem” but said that drinking and doing drugs “go hand in hand” for him.
Taylor confessed, “I can’t do cocaine without drinking. So I just gave up both. And I’m proud to say I’m 82, 83 days sober right now.” His sober streak is the “longest” Taylor has gone since he was 21 years old without any addictive substance.
He noted that he’s been “lying about it forever,” but wanted to share his story because addiction is a “really tough disease” to overcome.
“This year, it was probably the hardest year of my life. I would say my father’s death was the hardest year until this year,” Taylor reflected. “I’m going through a divorce right now, which is extremely difficult. And that’s when Brittany and I separated. That’s when the addiction got worse.”
The Valleystar pointed to his and Cartwright’s 2024 separation as a catalyst to more unhealthy behaviors. (Cartwright announced in February 2024 that she and Taylor split after nearly five years of marriage.)
“I literally lost control. I think at a point [I] hit rock bottom and I had to go to rehab,” Taylor said. “That’s where we’re at right now. And then I got out. Obviously here we are. But yeah, that’s a lot.”
Taylor explained that he entered rehab twice. While he said he “got a lot out of it” the first time, there was an incident where he caught himself yelling in the car where his and Cartwright’s son, Cruz, was in the backseat that motivated him to do a second round.
“I turned my head, and I see my son back there. I’m just like, this was just utter disgust,” he recalled. “And Brittany was like, ‘You need to go back’. And I didn’t even put up a fight.”
Since getting out of rehab and becoming clean, Taylor said his “No. 1 driver” to stay healthy is his son. “He’s my drive,” he added.
“For many years I’ve depended on alcohol and drugs as a way to cope and mask many deeper issues. This past year has been the hardest year of my life but also the most eye opening and transformative,” Taylor said in a statement on Tuesday. “Coming to terms with my many mental health challenges and being honest about my addiction — both with myself and others has been a crucial part of my healing. It’s been a day-by-day process, but I’m committed to my recovery and working towards a healthier future in order to be a better person and someone my son will be proud of one day.”
Taylor also gave podcast listeners an update on his relationship with estranged wife Cartwright, who filed for divorce in August 2024.
“One day she’s happy. One day she’s mad. One day she’s happy. One day she’s mad. I never know what I’m going to get with her,” he claimed. “I walk on eggshells constantly every day as I should. I just want her to know that I’m really, really trying. I’m doing everything she’s asked.”
Taylor reiterated that he’s done rehab and is in therapy and is “getting help” and doing drug testing to regain her trust.
“I take care of my son as much as she allows me to. I don’t know what else she wants from me. I’m doing everything that she’s asked for,” he continued. “And just because I respect her and I want to make her happy, I don’t want to be like, ‘Well, you’re not even trying.’ I’m going above and beyond to show her that I do care and I want to be in my son’s life, and I also want to be in [her] life to some extent.”
Cartwright, for her part, exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2024 that she “really thought we would be able to get back to a place where we could probably get back together.” However, she called the divorce a “roller-coaster” but something she feels “confident” about now.
Last month, Cartwright revealed that she even has a “couple crushes” now and is starting to think about what type of man she’d want to date when it feels right.
“Obviously, I’m a single mom, so [my son] Cruz always comes first in my life, so I got to find somebody who fits in with that and my crazy lifestyle as it is,” she told Us in February.
She revealed that her ideal partner is someone who “makes an effort” and can make her laugh.
“I don’t feel like I have to put too many boundaries on it from here on out. But it’s all just going to depend on feelings, because if I’m not feeling it, then it’s obviously not going to happen,” Cartwright concluded. “But I feel like you just never know what kind of connection you’re going to have with somebody.”
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Jax Taylor has put it all on camera — for better or for worse.
Ever since he made his Bravo debut on Vanderpump Rules in 2013, the former SUR bartender hasn’t been shy about sharing the good, bad and outright dramatic parts of his life with the world.
It was no different in March 2025 when Taylor opened up about his cocaine addiction for the first time on Alex Baskin‘s “Hot Mic” podcast.
“I am an addict,” he shared. “I have substance issues — primarily with cocaine. It’s hard to say out loud. I’ve been dealing with this on and off since I was 23 and now I’m 45.”
As he prepares for season 2 ofThe Valley, Taylor is committed to being a better person and dad to his son with estranged wife Brittany Cartwright.
“This past year has been the hardest year of my life but also the most eye opening and transformative,” Taylor said in a statement to Us. “Coming to terms with my many mental health challenges and being honest about my addiction — both with myself and others has been a crucial part of my healing. It’s been a day-by-day process, but I’m committed to my recovery and working towards a healthier future in order to be a better person and someone my son will be proud of one day.”
Keep reading to look back on all of Taylor’s highs and lows from the moment he agreed to become a Bravolebrity:
Lisa Vanderpump and a group of workers at her SUR restaurant in West Hollywood, California, come together to create a spinoff of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills titled Vanderpump Rules.
Featuring Taylor, Tom Sandoval, Tom Schwartz, Stassi Schroeder, Katie Maloney and more staff members, the show quickly became a hit for Bravo. While Taylor left the show after season 8, it wasn’t before he proclaimed to be the “No. 1 guy in the group.”
For much of season 2, Doute and Taylor denied that they ever had a romantic relationship. During the finale, however, the pair admitted to having sex twice.
The shocking confession came when Taylor was trying to win back his ex-girlfriend Schroeder. As for Doute, she was dating Taylor’s close friend, Sandoval.
While filming a Vanderpump Rules cast trip in Hawaii, Taylor got into legal trouble after he took a pair of sunglasses from a local store valued at more than $300. He was later charged with theft in the second degree and entered a no-contest plea.
"Obviously I feel absolutely horrible about it. I am human. I made a mistake. I apologized to everybody," he said on the show. "It's cost me a lot of money and I just kind of went into the mentality where nobody can touch me. And I kind of needed to be knocked down a little bit. It was a humbling experience. So it was good. Some good came out of that, what happened in Hawaii."
In season 6 of Vanderpump Rules, cameras rolled when it was revealed Taylor had slept with Faith Stowers while he was dating Cartwright.
“I didn’t accept any other advances at that time,” Stowers told Us in December 2017 when confirming she only hooked up with Taylor once. “He told me that he would let me know as soon as they were broken up, that he would come tell her soon, and boom, that’d be the end. It’s all good. That was a lie.”
Cartwright and Taylor pushed through any cheating allegations and decided to get married in front of family and friends in Kentucky after a year-long engagement.
“We’re stronger and happier than we’ve ever been,” Cartwright told People just before the big ceremony. “We’ve been through a lot, but we came out on the other side. I feel like we’ve just gotten stronger and stronger.”
Taylor and Cartwright officially became parents after their son was born.
“April 12th at 1:51pm, our lives changed forever in the absolute best way possible,” Cartwright shared via Instagram. “Our beautiful son Cruz Michael Cauchi was born and we have never been more in love. He is the most precious gift and I am so blessed to be his Mommy. 💙 We are soooooo so happy, he is a dream come true!! 😭🥰💙- Both Mommy & Baby are doing great!”
In an episode of her “When Reality Hits” podcast, Cartwright announced 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 said. “I won’t get into too many details right now because this is still really hard to talk about.”
Six months later, Cartwright officially filed for divorce from Taylor after five years of marriage citing irreconcilable differences.
Nearly four years after leaving Vanderpump Rules, Taylor and Cartwright returned to reality TV to star in The Valley. The show aims to follow a group of close friends as they trade bottle service in West Hollywood for baby bottles in the Valley all while they navigate bustling businesses, rocky relationships and feisty friendships.
Taylor chose to put his health first by entering an inpatient facility for mental health treatment.
“A little over a month ago, I checked into an intensive inpatient treatment facility scared of the unknown and what I would find out about myself,” Taylor wrote via Instagram. “After many years of knowing something was wrong but not knowing exactly what it was, I recently learned that I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and PTSD.”
In a candid podcast interview with The Valley’s executive producer, Taylor opened up about his struggles with addiction and where he stands today.
"People ask you, 'Do you have an alcohol problem too?' I don't necessarily think I have an alcohol problem but the two go hand in hand," Taylor said on the March 4 episode of the “Hot Mic” podcast. "I can't do cocaine without drinking. So I just gave up both. I'm proud to say I'm 83 days sober right now, which is the longest I've ever gone in my life without either."
"I'm the No. 1 sober guy in the group," he added. "I do still smoke weed a little bit. I need that to go to sleep. I prefer to do that over pills. So I'm what you call California sober and that's fine."
Baltimore Ravens star Ben Cleveland and his wife, Kaitlyn Cleveland, had a fairytale love story before a shocking cheating allegation brought an abrupt end to their marriage.
Ben, 26, and Kaitlyn met during their time at the University of Georgia, where Ben was a star offensive lineman from 2017 to 2020. He was drafted in the third round of the 2021 NFL Draft by the Ravens.
Kaitlyn, meanwhile, graduated with her Bachelor’s degree in Fashion and Merchandising – Brand Management in May 2022.
Before Ben was drafted and Kaitlyn earned her diploma, the couple signified their commitment to each other by getting engaged in Las Vegas in February 2020.
The pair got married in July 2022. Ben filed for divorce less than three years later.
For a full timeline of their relationship — and how it all fell apart — keep reading.
November 2018
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Ben posted about Kaitlyn on social media for the first time, sharing a photo via Instagram of her kissing his cheek at a concert in Athens, Georgia, home of the University of Georgia.
“Classic country on Thursday nights in the classic city make for some happy people,” he wrote.
November 2019
Ben shared a series of photos via Instagram from a hunting trip he and Kaitlyn took together in Statham, Georgia.
“Kaitlyn and I have hunted beyond hard the last year and a half trying to get her first deer and it all came together this morning and she absolutely smoked it,” he boasted. “I couldn’t be more proud of her but now I just have to teach her how to skin it herself.”
February 2020
The couple got engaged in Las Vegas, which Ben revealed in a since-deleted Instagram post.
“If I’m being honest, your first and my last name will just sound better together and probably always will,” Ben shared alongside a photo carousel in front of the Bellagio Hotel & Casino fountains. “Nobody I’d rather spend my forever with and now we get to try that out.”
May 2020
Ben posted a photo via Instagram of the couple enjoying the sunshine and water in Shellman Bluff, Georgia.
“Wedding planning is stressful so we go to the beach instead,” he wrote.
Ben shared a photo via Instagram of him and Kaitlyn walking outside Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium three months after making his NFL debut with the Ravens.
“Victory Monday mood,” Ben captioned the image.
July 2022
The couple got married, but kept photos and details of their ceremony off social media.
December 2024
Divorce documents filed by Ben in February 2025 listed the couple’s separation date as on or around December 29, 2024.
February 2024
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Ben was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in Milledgeville, Georgia on February 12.
According to the report, Ben registered a .178 blood alcohol content — more than double the legal limit.
The Handmaid’s Tale is coming to an end — but its spinoff series, The Testaments, could be here before you know it.
Hulu is close to giving a series order to The Testaments, according to Deadline. With the writing team hard at work, Ann Dowd is expected to reprise her role of Aunt Lydia with Chase Infiniti set to star as Agnes. Now, Lucy Halliday has reportedly joined in the role of Daisy. The newcomer is set to play “a young Canadian teen whose life is turned upside down when she learns of her connection to the Republic of Gilead.”
The Handmaid’s Tale universe was brought to life when Hulu adapted Margaret Atwood‘s 1985 novel of the same name in 2017. Atwood’s dystopian universe follows a future where low fertility rates have led women to be assigned to men for bearing children. Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Madeline Brewer, Dowd, O-T Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley and Amanda Brugel have led the cast since the show premiered in 2017.
After The Handmaid’s Tale‘s final season was announced in 2022, creator Bruce Miller stepped down as showrunner to work on The Testaments as executive producers Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang took over the day-to-day duties on the flagship drama.
“We are making The Testaments, and it’s not going to track precisely,” Miller told TVLine at the time. “Margaret writes these absolutely deliciously specific characters. We had to go away from that in Handmaid’s, and we’re going to have to go away from that in Testaments. Testaments is certainly going to be a sequel to the show.”
Director Elisabeth Moss and Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd).Sophie Giraud/Hulu
Set 15 years later, The Testaments is narrated by Aunt Lydia as viewers are thrust back into the dystopian future with new characters such as Agnes from Gilead and Daisy from Canada as they secretly gather and smuggle incriminating information about Gilead’s regime out of the country. Agnes and Daisy pose as “Pearl Girls” to infiltrate Canada, while Aunt Lydia acts as a covert source within Gilead.
“Although I could not continue with the story of Offred, I could continue with three other people concerned in these events and tell the story of the beginning of the end, because we know from The Handmaid’s Tale that Gilead vanishes,” Atwood told journalists at an event in 2019. “It’s no longer present 200 years into the future, because they’re having a symposium on it. How did it collapse? How do these kinds of regimes disappear? I was interested in exploring that.”
She continued: “There [are] some new costume choices in this book. Human beings throughout time love outfits that tell you who you’re looking at, like football teams and things like that. So yes, we have some new outfits.”
Atwood said she kept Miller updated on her plans as The Handmaid’s Tale was coming to an end.
“I read the scripts; I make notes on them,” she added. “I have influence but no actual power. But luckily we’re in accord most of the time.”
For the first time in 13 years, Nick Jonas is returning to Broadway.
The pop star is teaming up with Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren to star in The Last Five Years as Jamie Wellerstein and Cathy Hiatt, respectively.
On Tuesday, March 4, Jonas took to Instagram to share an embarrassing moment that happened to him while rehearsing for the show, which is set to open to the public on March 18.
“During rehearsal today for The Last Five Years, I was singing, ‘Moving Too Fast,’ one of my character, Jamie’s, songs,” Jonas began.
“I’m supposed to jump onto this platform and, you know, then pull my costar Adrienne Warren up onto the platform with me and keep singing,” the actor continued.
Jonas added that while he was rehearing, he was “in front of our director, Whitney White, Jason Robert Brown, the composer of the show. And of course, my costar, Adrienne Warren, the stage management department, musical director, pianist and percussionist.”
But as Jonas attempted to hop onto the platform and pull Warren up alongside him, he very quickly realized something went terribly wrong.
“I do it, and I hear a [ripping sound] and I’m like, ‘Oh, no, oh, no,’” he recalled. “And I feel a cool breeze in a place you don’t want to feel cool breeze.”
That’s when Jonas held up the pants he was wearing for the camera to show a giant rip right down the center.
“This is what happened to my pants,” Jonas shared. “Yeah, so get a look at that right there, the whole way down. They’re not tight pants by any means. It just was the perfect spot in the position that I jumped up.”
He said he tried to duct-tape his pants before attempting to use safety pins to put the trousers back together, neither of which worked.
“Thankfully, the stage management department jumped over to Target and bought me some some black shorts to finish rehearsals in,” he graciously added.
“So that was my day,” Jonas concluded. “How was yours?”
Fans were quick to make sure he didn’t feel too alone.
“This is why my husband always wears golf pants with a stretch. Been to too many weddings where he ripped his pants open dancing,” one commenter wrote.
“I haven’t been there with pants but I’ve had that happen with a shirt on stage before,” another noted.
Despite personal ups and downs, the one constant in Jax Taylor‘s life is his commitment to his son.
Bravo viewers were introduced to Taylor when he joined Vanderpump Rules in 2013. Two years later, Taylor found love with Brittany Cartwright, and she joined the show in 2015. The couple documented their rocky road to happily ever after, which included having their 2019 nuptials filmed for the show.
Taylor and Cartwright announced their departure from Vanderpump Rules in 2020. After taking a break from reality TV, Taylor and Cartwright expanded their family with son Cruz, whom they welcomed in 2021.
“Our lives changed forever in the absolute best way possible. Our beautiful son Cruz Michael Cauchi was born and we have never been more in love,” Cartwright wrote via Instagram in April 2021. “He is the most precious gift and I am so blessed to be his Mommy. We are soooooo so happy, he is a dream come true!! .”
Taylor and Cartwright’s relationship was documented again on Bravo’s The Valley, which premiered in 2024 shortly after they announced their separation. In June 2024, Taylor entered a 30-day treatment program to address his ongoing mental health struggles, but Cartwright ultimately filed for divorce.
After hinting at larger struggles, Taylor revealed he went to rehab twice for cocaine addiction.
“It didn’t happen the first time. It happened the second time,” he explained on Bravo’s “Hot Mic” podcast in March 2025. “I got a lot out of it the first time. Then when I was out, there was an incident. Brittany and I were actually on the way to a doctor’s appointment for our son and her phone was connected to my car and a man’s name came up. It just triggered me. I did slip after the first incident and I did take substance the night before. I lost it. I went crazy in the car yelling.”
“The worst part about all of this — and this is why I checked myself in — is that my son was in the backseat. That’s when I knew that I have a problem and it’s still there,” he continued. “This was just this utter disgust. The first time I put up a little bit of a fight and the second time I knew I had to go back.”
Keep scrolling for Taylor’s most unfiltered quotes about fatherhood — including the more challenging aspects:
Celebrating His Son
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“The amount of love we have for our son is unmeasurable. I can’t believe a week ago today you came into our lives and have changed us forever. Never has a man been more of a man until he has become a father in my opinion, fatherhood is the greatest thing to ever happen to me,” Taylor wrote via Instagram in April 2021. “You can’t explain the feeling, it’s like explaining water to some one who’s never felt water. Cruz has brought me more joy in the last week than I could [have] possibly ever imagined. I promise I will use my fathers handbook and give you the best-childhood a boy could ask for. I am already so proud of you son.”
Adjusting to Dad Life
During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly in May 2021, Taylor admitted he was “petrified” of holding his son, adding, “The first time I had to sit down and did the skin on skin … I didn’t want to break him. I was so scared. I thought I was going to drop him.”
He continued: “It was a big deal. I put pillows all around me. I was like, ‘OK, don’t talk to me. I don’t want to talk. Don’t come near me. Don’t breathe on me.’ After a couple of days went by, I loosened up a little bit.”
“Where do I begin, this year has been the best year of our lives. Seems like just yesterday I was driving at a snails pace on our way home from the hospital, you have brought so much joy and happiness Into our lives and we are so blessed to have such an adorable, sweet, smart, incredibly funny, little boy,” Taylor gushed via Instagram in April 2022. “Watching you grow every day has been absolutely incredible and now you’re turning one today. I can’t believe we have a one year old!! You make [your] mother and I so proud every day buddy I am so honored to be your father. I love you more than anything on this planet and I plan on doing everything in my power to give you the best life possible. Happy 1st birthday Cruz Michael!”
Many Highlights
“One of the best things about being a father is getting to live like a kid a again. watching my son grow and love the things that I used to love like going to Disney with my parents and seeing Mickey and all characters in person,” Taylor captioned an April 2023 post. “Nothing like seeing your child’s face light up when they are in the happiest place on earth. Luckily in this shot Cruz woke up right before we got on the Jungle Cruz so he didn’t miss any excitement.”
Putting Cruz 1st
Following a high-profile split, Taylor told E! News in March 2024 that he and Cartwright “both agree” that Cruz’s well-being is more important than anything else, saying, “I gotta do what’s best for my son. It’s about knowing he’s got two loving parents that love him to death and he’s gonna have the best life possible, whether we are together or not.”
“Happiest of birthdays to my special little man, mommy and daddy love you so much and we are so proud of you. You are the best thing to happen to both of us and we love watching you grow every day. I am beyond blessed to be your dad you are the kindest, happiest little boy on the planet you amaze me every day,” Taylor reflected via Instagram in April 2024. “Having you for a son has been the greatest gift life has given me. For all that you have been, for all that you are, and for all that you have yet to be. I always be by your side for the rest of my life. Thank you for making me a dad. I love you son, Happy 3 birthday! .”
Showing Love for Cruz
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Taylor acknowledged that Cruz inspired his growth, writing via Instagram in July 2024, “The best thing I have ever done with my life. How beautiful is he. … Working on getting better for you and myself buddy, I love you.”
Taking Pride in His Commitment to Cruz
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Taylor and Cartwright made headlines when she filed to end their marriage. The former bartender admitted that parting ways was “the right decision for [their] family” during a September 2024 episode of “When Reality Hits.”
“I’ll always love and care for Brittany. She’s the mother of my beautiful son,” he explained. “All I want for us is to be amicable and even, hopefully, really, really good friends. One day. I know I’m an amazing father and I know that I will make an excellent ex-husband.”
Figuring Out Custody
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Taylor asked that Cartwright’s request for primary custody be granted. “Jax and Brittany have already long resolved all matters related to custody of Cruz, and will continue to work together privately for the best interest of their son, which remains their overriding concern,” Taylor’s rep told Us in an October 2024 statement.
Taylor elaborated via Instagram, writing, “I’ve made a lot of mistakes but you are by far my biggest accomplishment son nothing in life makes me happier and want to be better person for you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to your mother and I. We love you to the moon Cruzy. .”
In an exclusive statement to Us in March 2025, Taylor opened up about his two-decade long addiction struggle.
“For many years I’ve depended on alcohol and drugs as a way to cope and mask many deeper issues. This past year has been the hardest year of my life but also the most eye opening and transformative,” he said. “Coming to terms with my many mental health challenges and being honest about my addiction — both with myself and others has been a crucial part of my healing. It’s been a day-by-day process, but I’m committed to my recovery and working towards a healthier future in order to be a better person and someone my son will be proud of one day.”
Still Figuring Out a New Normal
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“[I am focused on] one day at a time. The big thing here is my son. He’s my drive and he’s my No. 1 driver for this,” Taylor explained on the “Hot Mic” podcast in March 2025. “Obviously, I’m not the type of person who can have one drink and be OK. It’s just not in my cards and I had to stop. I was going to lose custody. I’m embarrassing my ex-wife and I’m embarrassing myself. Nobody’s looking at me seriously. I want to do it for myself.”
He continued: “I take care of my son as much as [Brittany] allows me to. I don’t know what else she wants from me. I’m doing everything that she’s asked for just because I respect her and I want to make her happy. I’m going above and beyond to show her that I do care and I want to be in my son’s life.”
