On Tuesday’s all-new The Valley, Cartwright met with a divorce lawyer to get the ball rolling on ending her marriage to estranged husband, Jax Taylor.

“With Jax getting out of the ability quickly, I am assembly with a lawyer to strive to determine what she thinks concerning the scenario, inform her every thing that is been occurring,” Cartwright stated in a confessional. “All my pals have been begging me to go see a lawyer for months now, and I feel it is the fitting time — earlier than he will get out.”

After detailing the circumstances between her and Taylor, and their poisonous dynamic amid their separation, Cartwright sought council as Taylor’s 30-day stint in rehab involves a detailed.

However what she did not understand she’d be doing that day was taking the massive step to file for divorce.

“He’s in rehab proper now. He will get out tomorrow. He is nonetheless be rage texting me,” Cartwright stated, earlier than exhibiting the legal professional the texts she’s been receiving from Taylor, prompting her to ask if Taylor has been “stalking” Cartwright.

After sharing that Taylor has allegedly been watching her by their dwelling safety cameras, the divorce legal professional prompt Cartwright not waste any extra time and take the mandatory steps to chop ties, particularly after discovering that Taylor seemingly plans to shrug off his monetary obligations and stick Cartwright with their $17,000 mortgage fee.

“That is why I need assistance,” Cartwright pleaded, sustaining that she pays for “every thing” for his or her 4-year-old son, Cruz. “By no means requested him to pay something as a result of he was taking good care of the mortgage this entire time — I assumed.”

Whereas Cartwright admitted she was “scared” on this second, the legal professional urged her to ship the sign to the Vanderpump Guidelines alum that their marriage is over.

“I did not come into this assembly considering I used to be going to file for divorce, however that is making me understand, ‘Wow, that is unhealthy, and I have to get out of this,” Cartwright shared in a confessional.

And with that, the method was kicked into excessive gear — sooner or later earlier than Taylor was attributable to return dwelling from rehab — with the lawyer telling Cartwright she was going to arrange the petition and file that day or early the following.

“I am simply so terrified that I will permit him to slowly make his approach again into my life, so I really want to go forward and rip the Band-Assist off, get this course of began and by no means look again,” she informed the cameras. “I simply know deep down that that is the fitting subsequent step to do.”

Elsewhere within the episode, Cartwright’s pals and solid mates helped remodel Jax’s Studio Metropolis bar into “Britt’s,” full with a brand new signal out entrance, shirts for the employees that learn “Britt’s” and footage of Cartwright all through the bar.

It was a welcome shock for the mother and actuality star, who wished to spend her final night time earlier than Taylor’s return sipping on drinks together with her assist system.

“This was like, the sweetest factor ever,” Brittany gushed to the cameras. “All my pals know the way a lot I have been going by, and truly, how a lot work I put into this bar. So, to see that they modified it to Britt’s and did all of this for me simply to make me have a great night time earlier than Jax comes houses tomorrow — I’ve one of the best pals.”

As for what Taylor’s response will likely be to large change — and the divorce submitting, that is still to be seen, with the episode ending with an ominous “To Be Continued.”

The Valley airs Tuesday’s at 9:00 p.m. ET on Bravo.