Jax Taylor is back Vanderpump Rules.
The show’s alum – who appeared on the series from 2013 to 2020 – made his long-awaited return on Tuesday night’s episode, returning to Tom Schwartzrequest to give advice to Tom Sandoval amid his cheating scandal.
Schwartz thought the meeting was a good idea, as Jax had already successfully navigated a cheating scandal – Jax cheated Brittany Cartwright when they were dating and married her – but Sandoval disagreed.
“Nothing brings Jax more joy than celebrating other people’s failures and misery,” Sandoval told the cameras, alluding to his cheating scandal with Rachel Levis in the midst of your relationship with Ariana Madix.
“I know what you did was wrong, but what I did was wrong too,” Jax told the table, which consisted of Sandoval, Schwartz, james kennedy It is Brock Davies. “The only problem I had with this whole situation was the way you handled it. Sometimes it’s okay to tuck your tail between your legs and say, ‘You know what? I screwed up.’
Sandoval insisted he had done it, but Jax disagreed, saying, “It’s a humiliating experience.”
“It must be humiliating to just have something interesting to say when you’re talking about me,” Sandoval responded, before adding, “I don’t need to humiliate myself in front of you, man. .. You have been tirelessly talking about me!
Jax insisted that the whole world was weighing in on Scandoval, but the other man was still angry, saying, “When the whole world was talking shit about you, when you were going through this, I fucking dog-piled you?”
“Yes, you did,” Jax replied. “…You’re not a friend at all. You’ve been me for seven years…If not worse. At least when I did this, I owned my shit.”
As for his life today, Jax said it’s “the best it’s ever been.”
“I’ve grown up. I’ve worked hard to get to where I am now,” he said. “I have a great wife, a great house. I have everything in the world I could ask for and I’m happy.”
The conversation ended with yet another criticism of Sandoval, when Jax told him: “You are literally an embarrassment.”
In a confessional, however, Jax said he “completely understands where Tom is,” before reflecting on from him PRV firing.
“I know what it’s like to hit rock bottom. I had the best job in the world in Vanderpump Rules, but I let my ego get a little ahead of me and I messed up,” he admitted. “I was in such a dark place because I felt like I lost everything. Financially, we were like, ‘Shit. What are we going to do now?’ My wife was pregnant at the time. It was difficult… But I can’t sit there and be ‘poor me’, I have to figure something out, put on my big boy pants, start from scratch.”
Jax then told Sandoval that he wanted the best for him and would be there if he needed anything, before getting up to hug his former friend.
When ET spoke with Jax earlier this month, Jax discussed his “triumphant return” to the PRV.
“Here’s the thing: I went into this and it wasn’t about cheating. I want to be very clear, it had nothing to do with cheating. It was how he treated Tom Schwartz in the process of all of this,” Jax said. of Sandoval’s post-scandal actions. “He caused a huge thing. He’s very aware of it, but instead of taking responsibility and saying, ‘This is what I did,’ he has a hard time taking ownership of anything. What upset me was how he handled it. Tom Schwartz. He went away and let Tom run the restaurant and all that, and that’s why I was angry.
“I wasn’t angry about the betrayal. I don’t really have a leg to stand on when it comes to that, so I wasn’t yelling at him about it. That wasn’t what it was about,” he continued. “It’s how you treat your friends and that wasn’t okay. You screwed up. You need to sit down and own it and…stop running away. You decided to do this, own it and accept it like a man.”
In addition to the back and forth between the former friends, the scene will likely catch the attention of Bravo fans because it was filmed before the news broke. Jax and Brittany’s breakup broken.
Brittany, who will star PRV spin off The valley alongside her husband, she revealed the news of their relationship in February.
“Marriages – in general – are very difficult and I had a particularly difficult year last year,” she said in part about marriage. When reality arrives podcast. “Jax and I are separating and I have made the decision to move to another house to have some space for the sake of my mental health.”
Just after, ET exclusively reported what The valley the cameras were back and rolling to capture the aftermath of Jax and Brittany’s split.
When ET spoke to Brittany at the premiere of The valley, she joked what fans will see about her and Jax’s relationship on the show.
“Throughout the season, you’ll see things here and there and then things get worse when the cameras are turned off,” Cartwright said. “I kind of reached my limit and I can only take so much after nine years, you know? I don’t know how much I can give right now, but I like being constantly humiliated. elevated like the queen that I am.”
Vanderpump Rules It is The valley airs Tuesdays on Bravo.
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