Reality star Jax Taylor is celebrating 15 total months of sobriety, carrying the momentum that began in 2024 with him into 2026.
The Valley alum, 46, ‘has been sober now for over one year and 3 months,’ an insider close to Taylor told US Weekly Tuesday.
The Shelby Township, Michigan-born TV personality is ‘doing really well’ as he continues to build on his success in foregoing substances such as cocaine, alcohol and most recently, marijuana.
‘He had even stopped smoking weed, and it’s been six months,’ the source said of the former Vanderpump Rules personality.
Taylor has ‘moved’ to ‘another home’ and is ‘close’ with his four-year-old son with estranged wife Brittany Cartwright, Cruz Michael Cauchi.
The Daily Mail has reached out to a representative for Taylor for further comment on the story.
Jax Taylor, 46, celebrating 15 total months of sobriety, carrying the momentum that began in 2024 with him into 2026
Taylor on Tuesday took to Instagram to share a clip as he went through the moving process.
‘New chapter,’ Taylor wrote, adding an emoji of a house. ‘Grateful to @roadwaymoving for making this move smooth and stress-free from start to finish.’
Taylor ended his post in saying, ‘Here’s to new beginnings.’
An insider close to the reality star explained how Taylor ‘completely transformed his life’ en route to being ‘the healthiest he’s ever been’ as he ‘lives a very quiet life’ these days.
‘Everyone around him has really seen the transformation’ in Taylor, the insider said.
The source told the magazine of Taylor, ‘He doesn’t go out and is very intentional with who he spends his time with’ – focused on ‘close friends that are on a similar path.’
Taylor also ‘spends a lot of his time with Cruz,’ the insider said, adding that he and Cartwright, who split in 2024, ‘have been co-parenting well recently.’
Cartwright last month appeared on the Boyfriend Material with Harry Jowsey podcast, where she was asked about co-parenting with Taylor.
Taylor ‘lives a very quiet life’ these days after years in the limelight, an insider said
Taylor on Tuesday took to Instagram to share a clip as he went through the moving process
‘It depends on the day, it depends on the mood,’ she said. ‘I just make sure I get everything done, and you know, Cruz comes first no matter what, and his dad feels the same way, so things are better, but there are definitely a lot of hard moments.
‘It’s hard whenever you can’t get along with somebody to also co-parent with them, so I’m really trying my best, you know? I’m trying so hard for my son. I am.’
Taylor first publicly spoke about his decades-long drug habit in March of 2025 on the Alex Baskin podcast Hot Mic.
‘I have substance issues – primarily with cocaine – it’s hard to say out loud,’ Taylor said. ‘I’ve been dealing with this on and off since I was 23 and now I’m 45.
‘There was times where I would stop doing it but then there were times where I’d go heavy on it.’
In July, he stepped back from The Valley, saying he needed to focus on remaining sober, and would not appear on the Bravo show’s third season.
‘After an incredibly challenging year and many honest conversations with my team and producers, I’ll be stepping away from the next season of The Valley,’ he said in a statement at the time.
He added: ‘Right now, my focus needs to be on my sobriety, my mental health, and coparenting. Taking this time is necessary for me to become the best version of myself – especially for our son, Cruz.’
Taylor’s estranged wife Brittany Cartwright pictured in Las Vegas last November at BravoCon
Cartwright and Taylor pictured on an episode of The Valley in 2024, the year they split
Taylor, in a September 2025 edition of his In The Mind Of Jax Taylor podcast, said he did not enjoy the actual process of drinking alcohol or sniffing cocaine, but enjoyed the way they made him feel in the moment.
‘I do not like the taste of alcohol,’ Taylor said. ‘I do not like snorting f***ing s*** up my nose, it’s not fun, it doesn’t taste good, it doesn’t feel good.’
He continued, ‘I don’t like doing it. I hate the taste of alcohol. I hate f***ing my nose burning, sneezing, and not being able to breathe.
‘It sucked but this is the only thing I could do to make me feel good.’
Taylor said that he often resorted to substance abuse as a means of escapism from past trauma he experienced.
‘I said this a lot before and I’ve even heard it in my rehab – I think trauma and mental health issues are the drive for addiction and I think that’s 100 percent – for me anyway it is,’ he said.
Taylor added, ‘But these things make me feel better in the moment so I don’t have to think about my marriage; so I don’t have to think about the trauma; so I don’t have to think about my father.’
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