Jax Taylor’s Co-Stars Say His Habit Neqws Was ‘Handy’

Jax Taylor could have opened up about his earlier cocaine dependancy, however a few of his co-stars do not appear to imagine his reasoning for sharing.

In a brand new interview, Nia Booko and Kristen Doute shared their ideas about Jax Taylor revealing he’d been “an addict” since he was 23, and one in every of them appeared to query whether or not his intentions have been real.

In March 2025, Taylor appeared on Bravo’s “Sizzling Mic” podcast and revealed he’d struggled with an dependancy to cocaine for over 20 years.

“I’ve substance points—primarily with cocaine. It’s laborious to say out loud,” he stated, including that he is been utilizing the illicit drug “since I used to be 23 and now I am 45.”

The truth star continued: “There [were] instances the place I might cease doing it, however then there have been instances the place I would go heavy on it.”

“I’ve by no means stated this in my life,” he continued. “So, to come back out and say that I’ve an dependancy [and] that I’ve a illness that I’ve to work on the remainder of my life is a very massive deal for me.”

Taylor’s co-stars agree that sharing about his dependancy was a giant deal. Nonetheless, one additionally appears torn about his intentions.

“When he got here out with, you already know, sharing his dependancy and all that, I had two ideas. I had one in every of, like, ‘Good for him. That’s received to be laborious to do,'” Booko instructed Decider.

“But in addition, the timing gave the impression to be handy,” she added, suggesting it was doubtless Taylor solely opened up as a result of the cameras have been rolling.

Elsewhere, throughout his preliminary interview, Taylor admitted he was now sober, which Doute hopes the “Home of Villains” actuality star is being trustworthy about.

“I hope that he’s sober. I hope he’s telling the reality,” she stated. “I haven’t seen something that has made me assume in any other case as of late, so kudos to him, after all.”

Nonetheless, Doute shared a few of her issues in regards to the former “Vanderpump Guidelines” star’s future habits.

“I believe Jax’s persona will at all times commerce one dependancy for an additional,” she stated. “So what that subsequent factor will probably be, I don’t know, and I’m not saying a substance essentially. I’m simply saying normally, that’s simply type of how he’s, and till he’s keen to actually do the work, like, in search of assistance is one factor, however doing the precise work is kind of one other, and that I haven’t seen but.”

In a earlier interview, Taylor shed extra gentle on his sobriety journey and mirrored on the time in his life when he was utilizing cocaine and consuming alcohol.

“I’ll say medication and alcohol will not be the issue,” stated Taylor. “The issue was I simply did not tackle my psychological well being in any respect and used medication and alcohol [to] masks it.”

He went on to say that the problems he was going through in his life, corresponding to his ongoing divorce from soon-to-be ex-wife Brittany Cartwright, bipolar dysfunction, and different woes, have been so urgent that the medication allowed him to flee actuality.

“It is simply so overwhelming, so ingesting and substances simply helped,” he stated.

Later, throughout his dialog, although, Taylor, who shares a 3-year-old son with Cartwright, admitted he was the actual purpose he started pursuing sobriety.

He referred to as the second when he determined to be open about his points with the Bravoverse “robust” earlier than saying it was one thing he needed to do for himself and his household.

He stated, “Everybody’s like, ‘You must do that for you first.’ I did this for my son first, after which I did it for me.”