When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany - REWIND: Home Sweet Haunted Home with Sherri Cartwright

Episode Date: April 11, 2025

Brittany Cartwright grew up in a haunted house in Winchester, Kentucky, and mom Sherri returns to share some of the scary, ghostly experiences from their time there! She also has plenty of true tales about Brittany’s wild childhood like all the parties and driving Sherri’s brand new car into the house! Plus, they throw in a little fan Q+A too! Brittany says “ball of fun.” Sherri says “troublemaker.” You decide! Original Airdate: 08/16/2024Please support the show by checking out our sponsors!Quince: Go to Quince.com/realityhits for 365-day returns, plus free shipping.Hiya: Receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal you must go to hiyahealth.com/REALITYHITSHungryroot: For a limited time get 40% off your first box PLUS get a free item in every box for life. Go to Hungryroot.com/realityhits and use code realityhitsNutrafol: Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off any order! Enjoy free shipping when you subscribe. Go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code REALITYHITSGIFT Progressive: Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust ProgressiveSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello everybody and welcome back to When Reality Hits with Brittany. Today I have a special guest and it is my beautiful mama miss Sherry Cartwright. Say hello mama. Hello everyone Mom gets to stay with me for the entire month and I'm so happy because she has been helping me so much with Cruz and You know, I'm taking care of two households right now and just doing all the things by myself So having my mom here has been such a blessing and I just want you to know I love you and I appreciate you so much mama. Oh I've really enjoyed it had a great time. So you've been able to stay with me for the entire month of August for this will be the third year now. Yes my incredible job at my favorite things allows me to do this so yeah so thank

goodness for that because Cause with everything going on, it's just been great to have you here. Okay. So a lot of people, since they know that you're going to be on the podcast are, have been asking about our ghost stories. Oh, I've talked about it here and there that I grew up in a haunted house. Um, but I've never really went into that much detail about it. So I think we should start off with the fact that we actually did live in a haunted house. We're not crazy. We're not crazy, but this is real haunted house. It was on French Avenue and Winchester. It was very, very, very haunted. Yes. And we lived there for seven years. And the people before us said that it

was haunted. And also I've talked to the people who bought the house. They also say it's still haunted. Like, what do they say? Well, they just say they hear a lot of things and they didn't go into great detail. But they say, yes, it's definitely haunted. We hear things all the time. Oh, my gosh, I just remember like like I would get off the school bus and I wouldn't even go inside I would sit on the front porch and wait till like you or somebody got home before I would even go in the house because

It was so terrifying to go in there by yourself I know it was just like an eerie feeling was in the house It was like somebody it felt like somebody was watching you like you would walk up the stairs And you felt like you could hear footsteps behind you while you're going up the stairs and you just always had that like hair on the back of your neck standing up feeling you know? Yeah that's exactly you know even even just looking around the house looking around the rooms I'd feel like somebody was watching me at all times it was definitely scary. It would be cool to go back in there and see like what it felt

like again you know I'm tempted whenever I drive past it to go out to the country. Whenever I drive past it, if I see somebody outside, I think I'll pull over and talk to them and ask them if it's still haunted. Yeah, you should. I'm sure they'd let you go in. I'm like, Oh my gosh, this is crazy. What was one of the craziest ghost stories that you remember from the house? Well, I remember me being in the bathtub. This happened twice. Once was upstairs. You were probably seven, eight, maybe, maybe smaller. And the water just turned on as like fast as it could go full blast. And you rolled up in the shower curtain. I'll never forget that. I won't forget that either. Cause you like, I didn't want to be in by myself in

that house. So like if you were in the bathroom taking a bath, I was right in there with you just standing there hanging out. And if you remember, it also happened in the downstairs bathroom again, where the water just comes on full blast. And like you would see like the handle turn and everything. And then the dryer turned on by itself a couple of times. Remember the hairdryer turned on, the TV channels would change. Remember whenever Roger, Roger was my stepdad, he, you guys like it sounded like a bowling ball was going down the stairs. Yes, he even, this was in the middle of the night and he even jumped up and got the gun

because he thought he heard somebody downstairs went down there, nothing. Yeah, but it did, it was so loud it sounded like a bowling ball just rolled down the steps I mean there was just so many crazy different stories one time I was sleeping and my room was at the very end of the hallway so I could see straight down like the long hallway to the top of the stairs and there was like a little study at the end and I woke up in the middle of night and I swear to you, there was a woman standing in the hallway. I'm not crazy. Like this actually happened.

It was just all white. It just looked like mist kind of, but you could just tell it was a woman because you could see like hair and you could see like a flowy gown looking thing. But like, I couldn't tell too much detail, but it was like, it looked like all mist, misty. And I swear to you guys

I saw a woman standing in the hallway. Well, then I go to school. I went to George Rogers Clark High School shout out Cardinals and Whatever I was in like theater arts class or something It was Halloween time and we were all telling ghost stories and like different things that that we had had that everybody had been through And I was talking about our house and this guy in my class his grandfather We were all telling ghost stories and like different things that we had had that everybody had been through. And I was talking about our house and this guy in my class, his grandfather lived across the street from us and his grandfather had told him and he says this in front of my entire class that he saw a woman standing on the balcony of the house.

Oh my gosh, it must have been haunted by a woman. It definitely was. Like I saw her, but the fact that even that guy said his grandfather saw her standing on the balcony made me feel like, okay, I'm not actually crazy. This really did happen to me. Yeah. And I'll never forget to what you did to scare us to death. We woke up one morning and we saw on the window, it said, help me. And we're like, oh my gosh, the ghost has wrote, somebody's wrote help me on the windows. And guess who that was? It was me.

It scared us to death. All I did was like, you know whenever you like breathe on the window, you go, and then you like drawl in it. That's what I did help me And it stayed and I forgot about it everything and then you guys saw it like days later So funny that scared us to death. I remember another time Me and my cousin Ashley

We got home from school and our older sisters, my sister Tiffany and my other cousin Jessica, they were already at the house, so they didn't know that me and Ashley had came home. So me and Ashley go upstairs and they're like jumping on the trampoline outside. So me and Ashley are like banging on the windows really loud and like ducking down to try to scare them. And they like take off running up the street because everybody just knew our house was haunted. It was like our whole family knew, all of our friends knew, like it was a real thing. So we scared them and they take off running. Well then me and Ashley scared ourselves because then we were in the house by ourselves and we were like, oh my gosh. And then we take off running

up to like one of our neighbor's house or something and then we made everybody come back. I think Wes's room might've been one of the most haunted rooms in the house. Yes, he said several things that happened to him down there. It just felt very creepy in that room. The basement was also really creepy. The basement was terrifying. I was scared to death to go downstairs to do the clothes. Yeah, I mean it was like such an old house.

It had like one of those laundry chutes where it goes from like the very top floor all the way down to the basement where the laundry room is. And even that just seemed scary. I don't know why. It was unfinished and just like rock wall down there. Yeah. It was very scary. Yeah. I remember there was like a ping pong table down there and it was just scary to even go around it. I know that sounds crazy, but still, I mean,

there was just so many different things. Like we said, the TV's turn in all the time, channels all the time, hearing footsteps all the time. I saw a woman. I mean, there was just multiple things. And then not even going to lie to you guys. Whenever I moved into my own houses, like in college and stuff, I was still haunted. Like it was crazy. All of my friends knew it. Like one time, I'll never forget, I was living with my friend Lindy, and it was just her and I,

we had a little two bedroom apartment, and I woke up in the middle of the night, and I could not move at all, and I felt something full on crawl into the bed with me. It was one of the most terrifying things that has ever happened to me. And I know a lot of people will listening to this will probably be like, well, that's what's it called sleep. There's something where people like wake up and they can't move sleep paralysis or something like that. But this has never happened to me before. It's not something that's like normal because I

know like what people that that does happen to it happens to them like reoccurring and you know it happens often but for me this was a one-time thing and I swear I felt like hand hand leg leg like crawling into the bed with me and I finally was able to like sit up and I was just screaming at the top of my lungs and me and Lindy moved out like three days later because we were terrified. Yeah I remember you telling me about that. When reality hits is sponsored by neutrophil for many new moms, hair thinning is an unexpected and frustrating part of motherhood. Luckily there's something you can do about it.

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Another house that I went to. I remember we were downstairs because we were making our garage that was on the bottom into like a party room. And me and my friend Ashley were down there. And I had my dog Macy and Lindy who was also my roommate again at this house. Her dog was upstairs as well and they were like in the kitchen with a gate. So all of a sudden we hear footsteps walking around upstairs and the dogs are just freaking out barking going crazy and we're like Who's here? I start calling everybody seeing if any of my friends came over anything We go upstairs. We're walking around all the doors were locked I mean things just like were happening to me all the time cabinets were opening and shutting my friends would come over to like

You know whenever you were in the college days You would get ready all together and everybody would hang out and almost, getting ready together whenever you were in college was almost more fun than actually going to the bars and stuff, because you would just hang out with your friends, get ready all together, have fun. I'll never forget, Shawn and my friend Ricky were at the house and they got there before I did,

I was like still working a shift at Hooters or something and I hadn't gotten home yet. And all of a sudden all the cabinets like opened and shut. And they were freaking out. They were calling me, Britney, Britney, Britney, the ghost is here. The ghost is here. I mean, I'm not kidding you guys. There was a ghost that followed me around for a while. I haven't seen it or I haven't had anything happen to me since I've been in California. So maybe it was like, I ain't leaving Kentucky. I ain't going down there that mess. Definitely had a Kentucky ghost. Oh, and then also, um, my stepdad Roger,

he saw his own father sitting on our couch in the front window one time and came inside and like felt the couch and he said it was still felt warm. He could smell his father's cologne like, and he'd passed away like about a year before. Yeah. I mean just crazy things. Well, crazy things were happening to us. Not that we're crazy. Right. It was happening. I know that for sure. I just remember all my friends knew it like if any of my friends are going to listen to this podcast, they're going to know exactly what I'm talking about. They felt it. I remember my friend, my

sister, her friend, Katie came over to the house and she went to open the door and it just opened for her. Yeah. Like she didn't even touch the doorknob. It just opened for her letter in the house. Yeah. She went to grab the doorknob and it just opened. Yeah. Like it was so crazy. I really, I just want to go back in and do a tour of that house again. If you're listening to this and you own the house and

because you know that it used to be ours, I want to come and do a tour. That would be hilarious. Okay. So let's go in now that we talked about all of our crazy ghost stories, which I'm sure there is even more that we could talk about. But I just want you guys to know that it was true and we are not liars so I mean even whenever I would tell Jackson stuff he'd be like I don't believe in ghosts I'm like I'm telling you that this is true and he was like I don't believe in it I don't believe in it I'm like but I'm like I'm telling you to your face that this happened to me yeah you almost have to experience it though yeah you have to it. I think so too because I know other people

that have experienced ghost stories too. Like I was talking to Luke, Kristen's boyfriend, he said that he lived in a haunted house and like there's just been different people that I've talked to that have actually gone through it and then other people who just do not believe it in it whatsoever. But I just think like you watch all these shows about all these ghost stories and all these different things. Like how would there be that many stories and not one person is telling the truth? You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

Alright, so last night I had my LA Travel Magazine cover and OC Travel Magazine cover release party. It was at Porsche Pasadena and it was amazing. They had like these dancers and what's that girl like on the trapeze and stuff like going around and like all the feathers and the diamonds and everything. It was so beautiful. I'm just so honored I got to be a cover girl. I just feel so blessed that I got to do that and the party was awesome.

Yes, and I was so, so proud of you, Brittany. I have to say I loved it. Had a little touch of Vegas in there. So yeah, seeing your, um, your pictures everywhere and the covers and you on the inside of the magazine. Yeah. I was so very proud to be your mother. They had caviar. They had magicians like that magician was incredible They were like blowing bubbles with like smoke inside of them and you would catch it in your drink. It was the coolest thing ever Yeah, that was cool. I love seeing that and then what he done with the heart on your hand Yeah, he like I took a video of it I'll have to post it on my Instagram, but he like did something where he drew a heart on his hand and then he Like magically put it

on my hand somehow. I don't even explain it. He didn't even touch my hand. And somehow he goes open your hand and it was in my palm on my palm and the inside. Like I don't know how they did that. I know I saw your video. I don't know. I don't know how that was done. It's crazy. And then another girl like I picked a card. It was like the nine of spades or something. And then she was like, okay, you pick a number to Sheena. And she was like seven. So I had the nine of spades. Sheena said the number seven. So then she like pulls a card up and she's like, is this your card? And I said no. And she goes, okay, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And it was my freaking card at seven. Like how is that possible? I know I love positions. They were definitely some good ones there.

I mean, she had just said number seven right there while we were standing there. And then she was able to, I don't know. That was just crazy. I'm like, are they ghosts too? That was so cool. But yeah, I'm so excited about being the cover girl. I feel very honored. It was such a pleasure to work with that company. Everybody was so nice to me. Everybody was so amazing.

The party was great. You know, I just had such a good time. Mama, you have lived through your first earthquake. Oh, yes I have. She's full on LA girl now. Yes, I felt something. The house shook a little bit. I run outside to call Brittany and the dogs are going crazy and I said, Brittany, did we just have an earthquake? Because normally like whenever we have earthquakes our phones will do that like me, me, me, me. But none of that happened. And I was at my rental house at the time. Mom was at my house

house and she felt it at the house but I didn't feel it at the rental house. Oh it definitely scared me to death yeah it shook this house. She was like I've been through an earthquake sitting in it's all her friends and everything I'm like you were just a full-on California girl now. I think it was a 4.4. Yeah 4.4 but yeah that can be that can be so scary I'll never forget this the worst one that we had. Our pool was actually making waves in it and the chandeliers and everything were shaking

and it was very visible that we had just had an earthquake. But Jax was freaking out. I mean, I always say he's terrible in crisis situations, but he was like, ooh, ooh, ooh, like it sounds like that. And I was like, grab the dogs. Cause I didn't know what was happening. Whenever it happens and it's like a big one,

you never know if it's going to stop. Like it's just, it's a weird feeling. And I'll just never forget, like Kingsley was literally sitting on Jackson's lap and I grabbed him in row and I'm like, get Kingsley, get Kingsley who was already sitting on his lap. But he was just freaking out so much. They couldn't even grab the dog.

You know you're supposed to stand in like doorways and stuff to like protect yourself if like the ceilings were supposed to fall down or anything. You're supposed to like stand in doorways and stuff. Well I just ran out of the house. Yeah, which that's fine too because then you know nothing's gonna fall on you. Right.

But it can be scary because especially if you never felt anything like that, like you never know if it's going to stop. You feel like all of a sudden you're in like the apocalypse or something. I'm like, are we about to be on the walking dead? I know. And you did, I think you all had another one since I've been here because when you were at your, the Airbnb, you see the chandelier was shaking.

Yeah, you just didn't. And I think Sheena, Janet and Kristen were over at my house that night. And the chandelier was shaking and everything. But our phones actually let us know that that was happening that time. The one that you felt that I didn't feel, our phones didn't even go off. That's why I was like, I don't know if it was or not,

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Oh my gosh, Venice Beach. You love Venice Beach. I love Venice Beach. It's my go-to place. I just like the palm trees are so pretty there and the ocean and I love to walk through all the little shops. So that's definitely one of my favorites and I've already been there on this trip. So I love it. I cracked me up that mom loves Venice Beach so much because as soon as you walk out of your car, it just smells like a big old pot leaf. I don't pay

no attention to that. I know, but it's just funny. It's funny. Yeah, no, but I like the culture and stuff there. Like there's just so many different people, but the people watching is amazing at Venice Beach. The people watching and then just the art. A lot of people do artwork down there and just like to see what all that they do. But yeah definitely Venice Beach is my favorite. The skate park school to watch the people skating and like doing all that stuff. I think that's awesome too. Yeah. What else? What are some other favorite places? Well we used to go down to like the Hollywood, the Walk of Fame. We'd go down there. That was always nice. I loved going there. I haven't been

there in ages. I mean, I'll go like for like Johnny's Theater, like for a movie premiere or something. I think that's the last time I went down there. But once you live in LA, you don't really like go down the Walk of fame and stuff because it looks so glamorous on TV, but whenever you're actually getting there, it's like weird Spider-Man and a weird Mickey Mouse and like, just like all these makeshift characters. Well, I noticed too, the first two or three years you lived here, we did all the touristy things. Like we went to the Hollywood sign and we would go to the different places, but now that you've been here a while, we mainly just go down to the beach. We stay in the valley. We stay in

the valley, go to the beach which the traffic going to the beach is unreal. I just can't drive in this LA traffic. Oh my gosh mom's been helping me but she hates driving so. I'm terrified when you say I have to drive somewhere. If I'm working or something and like I needed her to pick up crews from school one day and I was so scared. I was like, oh my gosh, is she going to be able to do it? You did it just fine. Yeah.

Oh, I love Moon Shadows in Malibu. That's probably my favorite restaurant here in LA. And I think I've taken you there a couple times. Yeah, I have went there. Uh huh. It's so pretty. I love Malibu. They definitely have some really good restaurants here. Love to go to the ones on the beach.

Yeah, anything on the beach is really fun. It always refreshes you. And that's another thing. Like when you live here, you don't really go to the beach that often either. I know. As soon as I get here, I say, we are going to the beach, right? That's the first thing I want to do is get to the beach.

Cruz loves the beach too. Like he loves like filling the sand and running around in it and everything. So one thing we did find out, you cannot push a stroller in that sand. Oh my gosh. Absolutely not. Like, oh, we were trying to get down to the water so I could take a picture of mom barefoot on the beach. And that was my dream photo. And once we like, I was like, man, I have cruise a stroller. I can't just

leave it on Venice beach. Like somebody take off within the heartbeat. And I was like, let me try to push it down here. Nope. There is no pushing a stroller. You can do like a wagon or something like pull it, but you can't push. You can't hardly even walk. It's so thick. Yeah. It was like, that was not gonna happen. So I've always been a party girl. Everybody knows this. Mom, can you tell people about all the parties that I used to have behind your back

whenever I was growing up? Oh my gosh, well I definitely was never a partier, so she didn't get this after me. No. But yeah, she would have parties, and the one time I'll never forget was the 18th birthday party. I did not want you to do this. I'm like, no, no, we cannot have a party here.

You're like, please, we're just going to have what? What'd you say? 12 people or something was going to be there. And oh my gosh, how many people ended up coming? Oh, like 40 or 50. 40 or 50. And mom didn't know this, but I named the party GI Joe's and army hosts. So everybody had to wear camouflage. Yeah, I sure

didn't know this. And I'm so naive. I have gone out to Walmart to get cookies and solo cups for coke and she had Coca Cola and like Sprite and stuff. Little did she know we had a keg in the room. Had no idea you had a keg in the room. That's for sure. So naive. That was so funny though. Yeah, I've always been like the hostess with the mostest though. Even whenever I was young, I've always enjoyed throwing parties, having people over. Like even now, like I just threw a shark party like the other day, you know, like stuff like that just makes me happy. I love having people over and entertaining. Are you definitely could be an event planner? Oh yeah.

Yeah. If this reality TV thing doesn't work out, maybe I'll go into party planning. You would be very good at it. It's just so fun. Um, yeah, I'm just like thinking about all the trouble I gave you whenever I was growing up from that time time that I egged a house? Yeah, they come after me and I think that's the day they come after me, three or four o'clock in the morning.

It was me and my friend Kayla and we snuck out in the middle of the night. This was like middle school. I think I was like in eighth grade. And everybody listen to this. You guys all know that y'all did stuff like this when you were growing up too. Who cares? It's just funny to look back now that I'm 35 like golly I was a troublemaker because now I'm thinking like I hope Cruz doesn't do this stuff to me But I will never forget me and my friend Kayla We went we egged this boy's house that we had a crush on we weren't trying to like, you know We were just trying to flirt in a weird way

And we went and like egged his house and then the cops came to the house at like three o'clock in the morning and we just act like that we didn't do it and then poor mom had to go to the police station with me for behavior classes. Remember? Yes. My first two children were so simple so easy didn't give me any trouble then I get number three the baby girl and she's the one giving me all the trouble. I was like good in school though. I had good grades. I was like good and all that stuff. But I was just like a party.

Yeah. I was just like a ball of fun and all that it is. Still to this day, I'm just a ball of fun. But still the fact that you had to go to the police station with me for classes. I know that was so embarrassing. So embarrassing in our small hometown where everybody knows everything. Yeah. Like you can, you could throw a quarter and somebody next door will find out about it.

Like it doesn't, you know, everybody knows everybody in Winchester. And then of course, one thing I'll never forget that you done speaking of things that you've done is you drove my new car right through the house. I just got a brand new car and she drove it right through her bedroom. I didn't even have my license yet. And I took a, uh, me and my friend, Bethany, we went on a little joy ride. Mom didn't even drive her car to Lexington because she didn't want to put miles on her

new car. Right. So instead of driving it that day and I was like, Ooh, I got the keys. And I was like, I had my permit, but I didn't have my license yet. So me and Bethany were like, let's, let's take a little joy ride. And we go just like around the block, couldn't get the convertible top down. Thank the Lord. Thank the Lord.

Because we would have been severely hurt if we would have got that convertible top down. Thank the Lord. Thank the Lord. Because we would have been severely hurt if we would have got that convertible top down. And I pull into the driveway and instead of hitting the the brake, I hit the gas and we zoomed right through the wall, right through the whole entire thing. My bedroom, like Bethany couldn't even open her door because if she opened it, it would have been the dresser was right there beside her. Like the air conditioning unit was on top of us. Like it would have really hurt us. The two by fours all came down. It would have really hurt us if we would have gotten that top down. I will never forget you drove the car right in and there was a, you had a

poster thing up that said, caution blonde thinking. Right above where the car landed. And then you called me at work said, mom, the car is in the house. I'm like, what? The car's in the house. I don't know what happened. I was just showing Bethany your car and it took off. Everybody was driving by.

Everybody from the school was driving by looking at it. Yeah, because it had like a blue tarp up for like weeks until it got fully fixed. Yeah. I will never forget like in the middle of the night, my like guy friends would come over and like scare us in the middle of the night like banging on the tarp and stuff. Oh man, I miss those high school days. Yeah. Oh gosh. Oh, so me and my friends in high school, we called ourselves the FBC. It was like our, it was the FBC the first bitches club. Oh Lord. I never knew that one. And we would always meet at my house because I had a door to the outside mom would never know she'd be upstairs sleeping. I'm so naive. She'd be upstairs sleeping and I'd

have like 12 people down in my room and she wouldn't even know. Oh goodness gracious. I'm glad you didn't know because those were fun days. I miss high school sometimes. We had a good old time. What else did I do that was embarrassing? I don't know if we can top these stories actually. Oh goodness. But I wasn't like that bad. Like I didn't do like bad, bad stuff. The worst I did was egg the house. Well, you wouldn't as good as your brother and sister. Oh goodness.

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Okay. This is from Alexis Higgins 1229. How does your mom feel about your separation? Oh my goodness. At first it was really hard on me and hard on you and it's a hard situation. You know, I hate it for you. I hate it for Cruz definitely. This is from A.A. Let's see. A. Allie Wash here. I'm like mess up some of these names sometimes. What did Sherri think of you going on reality TV and about you moving to LA? Moving to LA was really hard on me and I know now like I probably get to see you what 7,

8 weeks probably out of the year but I'm already thinking oh my gosh I probably won't see her again till Christmas after this so I hate being away from you and then reality TV I did watch reality TV and I watched Vanderpump Rules. I knew who Jax was even though you had never watched it. Thank you, because there's some people who still try to say lies about me because my friend Kara took me to Sir

for my birthday one time. I was here with my boyfriend at the time, Aaron, and me, Aaron, and Kara were in LA for my birthday. Kara made a reservation at Sir. I did not even know what Sir was. I didn't know anything about it. And Kara took photos of it and was like, oh, there's a TV show here.

Whatever, I didn't think nothing of it. And then years passed, years later, I met Jax in Vegas. And then people try to act like, and I see this happen all the time, they're like, no, Brittany went to Sir before she even knew Jax. I only went there because Karen made the freaking reservation. I had nothing to do with it. Never watched the show. Didn't know who anybody

was. Nothing. I can tell you, she does not watch reality TV. I don't think you only want the only thing you watch your own shows. No, she did not know who Jax Taylor was. And you had took a picture of Jackson care and Kara somewhere. No it was. Yeah, well it was Kara and Katie that I was taking photos of in Vegas. And then I was like, I hung out with Jax and you knew who he was. And I said, oh that's Jax Taylor. But what did you think about me starting on reality TV? A little scared for you at first, but I thought well a big, a good opportunity.

You always said you wanted to live in LA even you know when you were small so I thought just go for it you know and see how see what happens but I was definitely scared for you yeah I mean it was a whole huge life change for me moving you know from a little small town in Kentucky to to come up to LA big change big change this is from Karina 1617 what is the age difference between your siblings? How old was your mom when she had you? I was 25 when you had me but Wes so I have my oldest brother Wes I had him at 18. Yeah, and then Tiffany at 20 and then me you at 25 Yeah, so they're like six and seven years older than me. Yes. Yeah. There's a big age

gap between us. Wes and Tiffany were super close growing up. And then there was me, the little sister who drove them crazy and stole all my sister's clothes. Yeah. You used to get fights with Tiffany all the time. We didn't get, I love my sister, but we didn't get close until I got like out of high school. Right. Because I think I just drove her crazy. Again, the youngest one caused all the trouble. I'm also the favorite though. Oh my gosh. This is from Whitney Lee Ann 3. They want an update on your health because everybody knows about your health scare that you had a couple years ago. Oh, I'm doing really well. That was with my bladder surgery. Doing really well on that.

I just had a little bit of a skin cancer issue and that was on my nose. It was a basal and now I have got it completely taken care of so as far as I know, I'm cancer free and I'm doing well. Yeah, and from her whenever she, what was it, septic, sepsis? Yeah, she went into septic shockic shock, we almost lost her.

It was awful. It was awful. But you're healed all the way up now and feeling a lot better. Yeah. The doctor said if I hadn't made it to the hospital that I would have died in the next 24 hours. Yeah, for sure. That was a scary, scary night because I was all the way here in LA. And you go into surgery.

I think Zach was over with me actually whenever that whenever that happened you go to the hospital because you weren't feeling good you were just so sick after you had your bladder surgery and they call me and say that you're going into surgery and then it had been like five hours and you were still in surgery and nobody knew what was going on yeah it was terrifying yeah it took me about six months after that to even get my strength back to be able to fix A sandwich to go out on the farm. I mean you came and stayed with me for two or three months Yeah, I was giving you three IVs a day

Remember I was waking up in the middle of the night at 3 a.m. Giving you an IV and even Jax He was great too because yeah, he took care of all the horses for me. Yeah, he was like cleaning the stables Right now everything is great. That's awesome. This is from Serene Brasker horses for me. Yeah, he was like cleaning the stables. He was right now. Everything is great. That's awesome. This is from Serene Brasker. Does your mom blame the bar? Yes, I do blame the bar. I thought it wasn't a good idea and you can see what what's happening now. They have been together for I guess nine years and they when the bar opened, it was four months after the bar opened, you had already separated.

So within four months, and I just think there's, you know, just so much temptation at a bar. I don't know. I think the bar could be fine, but the way Jax handles things is what's not fun. Yeah. He just can't be mature. So yes, I think that the bar started the problems. Well, it didn't start it. We already had we're having problems. It didn't help. Yeah, it didn't help. But I do still I do love the bar and it is

doing good. But yeah, I see why you would think that, you know, it added to everything that's going on in our relationship. This is from Nora. Nora German 86. Do you think Cruz looks more like Jax or Brittany? Oh, definitely Brittany right now. I think so too. He's got her hair color, her personality. Now when he was first born, he was dark headed

and he looked a lot like Jax. As soon as he was born, he looked identical to Jax. Yeah, I remember when they put him on my chest, I think one of the first things I even said to you was he looks just like Jax. You did, and he did. He looked just to Jax. Yeah, I remember when they put him on my chest. I think one of the first things I even said to you was, he looks just like Jax. You did, and he did. He looked just like Jax, but now he definitely,

it looks more like you. Like we can take your pictures side by side, and yeah, he's definitely 100% Britney just about. He's got my nose, my eye shape. Like, he's just got a lot of my features. Yeah. Okay. Jen underscore Matthews, what is one of your mom's

core moments with you as a child? Probably one of the most core moments that I can remember is the pageants. Oh yeah. I loved, I put you in pageants at six months old. You're, you were America's most beautiful baby and you have a, uh, just a curio cabinet just full of crowns. You know, the whole time we were growing up, you'd won multiple pageants. We even traveled to Florida for different pageants. So we've done that from time you were six months old till you were about probably 18. That was a lot of fun. I think it helped me with a lot of things in my life too. Like, you know, it builds your self confidence and you know, you answer questions, you do interviews and,

you know, I think it really helped me with a lot of things actually in life. Did you always win the interview award? I did. Right, I thought you did. I did. And the best hair. Yeah. I always get the interview award and the best hair awards. That was a fun time. I do have to tell one thing on you though.

Speaking of hair, I'll never forget, I went to the EKU football game and I was standing up there and I was looking for you and you had dyed your hair jet black and you looked identical to me standing out there on the field. I was cheering, whenever I cheered for EKUU mom showed up to a game and she didn't cause I always had like super blonde hair.

Yeah. And I died at black and she just showed up to a game and I don't even think I told her. No, I was just down there cheering with black hair. She's like, where are you? I know. I swear you look just like me. Oh my goodness.

Let's see. Bravo for the rest of us. Did your relationship with your mom change once you became a mother? I, me and my mom have always been close. I don't think it really changed necessarily, but it makes you realize like how much you bet I was loved by you, you know, because the love for your child is something that you can not even explain. Like I love Cruz so much. And once I had him I was like oh my god my mom loves me this much you know like obviously I always knew that you

love me right but you just like feel that bond even more and a grandmother's love to a grandchild it's unreal yeah it's the best feeling and this is from Salini underscore Biba what are your thoughts on Brittany keeping her foot Yeah, that's the best feeling. This is from Selene underscore Beba. What are your thoughts on Brittany keeping her foot down and doing what's best for her? She's always going to do that. She's always going to do what Brittany wants to do. Sometimes I'll say, Brittany, I don't think this is a good idea.

You'll say, Mom, I'm 35. I definitely try to tell her what I think's right. Sometimes she sometimes I think, listen, sometimes she will not, but she's going to do what Brittany wants to do. Oh my goodness. This is from T Nicole 2008. How's Cruz therapies progressing? And will we see more of the journey on season two of the Valley?

Cruz is getting better and better every single day. I think that he is progressing so well. He's saying more words. He is so happy. He's in speech therapy. He's in occupational therapy. He's in preschool. He's hanging out with his friends.

He's playing with people. He's just doing great. And it's a work in progress. I'm learning as I go. But you know, there's a lot of things that I didn't ever expect that I would be going through. But at the end of the day, he is just the most perfect little angel and I'm so blessed to be his mom.

And you know, I think that God chose me to be his mother because I'm able to handle all these things. And because I do have the patience and I think being with Jax Taylor all these years has made me very patient. And then every time that I see Cruz every few months, I can see improvement. Yes, yeah. He is doing amazing and he is just the most special.

He's pure magic. That's the best way to explain it. He is absolute magic. Very loving child. Yeah, he's the sweetest little thing. He doesn't throw tantrums. He doesn't like cry. He is just a little angel baby. He's definitely got like more your personality. For sure. Oh my goodness. This is from I am a blowfish. Sherri, what are your favorite and least favorite things about LA? Oh, okay. Well, I love-

First, start with your favorite thing about LA. The weather. The weather, yeah. Mom will sit out the pool all day. Never, since I've been here, I haven't seen a cloud in the sky, so definitely the weather I love. The palm trees never get old to me and the ocean. Yeah. That's the three things I absolutely love.

What about your least favorite thing about LA? It's the ocean. That's the three things I absolutely love. What's your least favorite thing about LA? It's the traffic. The traffic. This is from Chrissy Perry 1107. What makes you the most proud about your daughter? Oh my gosh. Gas me up mom. There's lots of things that make me proud but probably you being the great mother that you are to Cruz. That's probably one of the things that I am the most proud of. You do everything for him. Gosh, I have saw it since I've been here for two weeks. I mean, she's up. If she's had to film all night, you're still up early getting him to all of his things

that he needs to go to. So just you being a great mother is one thing that's made me the most proud. Oh, thank you. Let's see, I'm gonna ask one more question. This is from Tammy Moore, your bestie. Brittany, do you and my best friend Sherry have any upcoming trips or events where the both of you will be together?

I love seeing the mom and daughter love that you have for each other. Well, we had our event last night. Yeah, we had our event last night, and then, I don't know, do we have any trips planned right now? No? I'll be in Kentucky for Christmas, obviously.

Yeah, well we can always plan a trip. Yeah. Mom's like, let's go back to Mexico. Yeah, I love that, I love that. Yeah, we do, we have a lot of fun, and I love taking you places with me. But the events are so fun, because you get to get in all the glam and I still have my eyelashes on this morning from last night. Yeah, Bradley and Anais, my makeup and hair glam team, they did mom's hair and makeup last night too. You looked so pretty.

I loved it too. That was so fun. All right, well thanks,, mama. Had a great time talking with you and thanks everybody for tuning in to win reality hits and we will see you next week. See you later. Love y'all. Stream all the movies and shows you love for free on Pluto TV. Say what now? Showtime. That means drama is free with heart wrenching stories from Love and Basketball, Power and Green Leaf. In this family, we live by the spirit. And laughter is free with gut-busting comedies like Pee and Peel, The Neighborhood, Everybody

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