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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.
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“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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