The Valley‘s Jax Taylor admitted he is powerless over cocaine.
He was a guest on Bravo’s Hot Mic podcast and set the record straight on his drug use.
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“This is tough to say,” began 3-year-old Cruz’s dad. “So, I am coming out that I’m an addict. I have substance issues, primarily with cocaine. Ooh, that’s hard to say out loud.
“I’ve been dealing with this for, I think, the last, on and off since I was 23. I’m 45, so give or take …”
“There was times where I would stop doing it. But, then there was times where I would go heavy on it. I think a lot of people who’ve watched Vanderpump Rules over the years could kind of tell that I was on something.”
“Obviously production and people, they didn’t know what I was doing. Everything I was doing was on my own. But I was just on that train and I couldn’t get off.”
Narcotics and booze:
“People ask, you know, do you have an alcohol problem too? I don’t necessarily think I have an alcohol problem, but the two go hand in hand,” explained Jax.
“So, 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, which is the longest I’ve ever gone in my life without either. Well, not my life, but this is the longest I’ve gone since I was 21 without anything. And, I gotta say, it feels really, really good.”
The struggle is real:
“I just want to let people know like, this is a really, really tough disease,” explained Jax. “It’s a really tough sickness. And, I’ve been doing it for so long. You can say hiding it, not necessarily hiding it, lying about it forever.”
Jax hit his limit. “I just had enough’s enough. I mean, this year was probably the hardest year of my life. I would say my father’s death was the hardest year until this year.”
“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. Now I’ve always been doing it for a long time, but the addiction got worse during my divorce, during my separation.”
“I literally lost control, you know. I kind of, I think at a point hit rock bottom, and you know, I had to go to rehab. That’s kind of where we’re at right now.”
“And then I got out, obviously, here we are.”
“I’ve never said this in my life. So to come out and say that I have an addiction, that I have a sickness, that I have to work on the rest of my life is a really big deal for me. Obviously, I think people have known that there’s something out, but for me to say it out, come out of my mouth is…”
“It’s like, it’s a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. Huge.”
