In a dramatic turn of events on the season finale of the E! reality competition series House of Villains, Vanderpump Rules alum Jax Taylor made a shock return weeks after being eliminated. On that episode, Jax shared a surprising revelation about his wife/fellow ex-Pumper, Brittany Cartwright.
No, it wasn’t that she was finally able to make Mamaw’s Beer Cheese a household name. It’s that Jax found out she was rushed to the hospital right at the same time he faced elimination, and it turns out Brittany had a stroke.
Here’s what he revealed about her health scare earlier this year.
Jax spoke about Brittany’s stroke on House of Villains
In a heartfelt moment with his former castmates on the December 21 episode, Jax recounted the immediate aftermath of his elimination. “I don’t know if you know, about three minutes after I got eliminated, I got a phone call. ‘Here, Jax, take the phone. Your wife’s in the hospital,'” Jax recalled, gesturing towards the Villains’ mansion door.
Opening up about the concerning situation, Jax explained, “She’s like, crying on the phone … I’m panicking. Obviously, the timing … so I raced to Cedars, stayed there for two nights. Making sure my wife doesn’t have cancer, doesn’t have spinal issues, doesn’t have MS. Turns out, she had a small stroke. She’s 33.”
Amid the emotional revelation, Taylor received a comforting hug from HoV winner Tanisha Thomas as he assured everyone that Brittany was okay following the health scare.
Brittany had mentioned her health scare previously
The couple had initially kept the health issues private, but on the April 26 episode of ex-Vanderpumper Kristen Doute’s Sex, Love & What Else Matters podcast, Brittany shared that she’d suffered a medical issue. She explained: “All of the sudden, I started getting numbness in my right arm and my right leg, to the point where I couldn’t even hold my cell phone anymore. And it got really scary because it was happening out of nowhere.”
Jax and Brittany have been working on several projects lately: making a sibling for their two-year-old son Cruz, a sports bar, and a return to television. So, here’s hoping Jax has toned down his chaotic Jaxness a bit in an attempt to keep Brittany’s stress-level down!
Jax and Brittany are rumored to eventually be returning to Bravo for an unnamed Vanderpump Rules spinoff. No release date has been given.
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