Was Jax Taylor’s Rehab Phone Call on ‘The Valley’ Fake? Social Media Has Questions

The second season of Bravo’s hit reality series The Valley just started, but the drama has already reached a fever pitch — which is largely in part to the show’s star, Jax Taylor, and the events that led him to enter rehab, but some fans are questioning a scene where he made a call inquiring about treatment.

Fans have been bombarded for months with the public feuding between estranged couple Jax and Brittany Cartwright, and now fans are finally able to see how they got to such a toxic place, as Season 2 airs.

Following the airing of the second episode of Season 2, in which Jax finally decides to go to a mental health facility for rehabilitation, he is filmed having a phone call with an apparent employee at the facility.

The voice on the other end awkwardly asks Jax questions before informing him that a 30-day stay will cost him approximately $30,000 — and will not be refunded should he decide to leave the treatment program early.

Ever the online sleuths, some TikTok users questioned if the voice was real or if it was ChatGPT or AI. “ChatGPT’s TV debut on The Valley was not on my bingo card,” one user wrote. “I swear this sounded like an AI-generated voice,” added another.

“Seems like a strange way for a rehab center to speak to somebody. Seems staged,” a third commenter said. Meanwhile, another user commented and offered a bit of reality TV insight. “Worked in reality TV. The person he’s 'talking on the phone' with is 100 percent a producer who can’t act. Recorded in post production,” they wrote. As of now, there has been no confirmation or denial that the call was fake.

In March 2025, Jax revealed that he was battling an addiction to cocaine that dates back to his days on Vanderpump Rules.

“I have substance issues — primarily with cocaine. It’s hard to say out loud. I’ve been dealing with this on and off since I was 23 and now I’m 45," Jax confirmed during an appearance on Bravo’s Hot Mic Podcast. "There was times where I would stop doing it but then there were times where I’d go heavy on it.”

“I’ve never said this in my life," Jax said. "So to come out and say that I have an addiction [and] that I have a sickness that I have to work on the rest of my life is a really big deal for me. Obviously, it’s a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.”

"Obviously, production and [other] 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," Jax continued, before sharing that he is now sober. "I can’t do cocaine without drinking. So I just gave up both. I’m proud to say I’m 83 days sober right now, which is the longest I’ve ever gone in my life without either," he said.