A Fresh Start After a Wild Year
When Reality Hits with Brittany Cartwright
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4.1 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In the first episode of 2026, Brittany reflects on the highs, challenges, and lessons of a life-changing 2025. From a chaotic holiday trip home to Kentucky and meaningful family traditions to hosting New Year’s Eve in San Diego, she shares the moments that carried her through the year. Brittany opens up about motherhood, co-parenting, The Valley season two, and advocating for Cruz after publicly sharing his autism diagnosis, while looking ahead with gratitude, growth, and hope for what’s to come in 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to another episode of When Reality hits. |
| 0:19.9 | Happy 2026, everyone. This is our first episode back in |
| 0:25.4 | 26. I hope everyone had a fabulous New Year's Eve, and I hope that 2026 is going to be a great |
| 0:34.4 | and wonderful year for everyone who is listening. |
| 0:47.0 | Since this is our first episode back, I wanted to kind of do a 20-25 recap because last year was absolutely wild for me. |
| 0:50.7 | A lot of great things happened, but a lot of ups and downs and a lot of very public up and downs |
| 0:58.5 | happened for me as well so it hasn't always been easy to navigate through all of that but i've |
| 1:05.8 | tried my best and i have had a lot of support from a lot of the listeners and a lot of the people who watch |
| 1:12.2 | the Valley and follow me on Instagram and everything else. |
| 1:15.6 | And I just want to say that I really appreciate all of the love and support. |
| 1:19.5 | And I'm always very open and honest about what happens in my life because I feel like |
| 1:26.1 | whenever I signed up to do reality TV, that's part of, |
| 1:30.9 | you know, my job. And I just feel like I'm very lucky to have the job and, you know, get to do |
| 1:38.0 | these really cool things that I get to do. So if I could share my story and maybe help other |
| 1:43.0 | people, other parents who are dealing with, |
| 1:45.9 | you know, children on the spectrum getting their first diagnosis, if they're going through a |
| 1:50.2 | toxic relationship, if they're going through a divorce, if, you know, people can watch what I'm |
| 1:56.3 | going through and, you know, see that it is difficult and hard at times, but there's also so many more |
| 2:03.4 | amazing moments and joyful moments and women are strong and we can get through anything. So |
| 2:10.5 | 2025 definitely taught me a lot. So before we go into a full recap of 2025, I'll just fill you guys in on a |
| 2:22.5 | couple things that I have done recently because last time you guys heard from me because we did |
| 2:28.6 | take a week off because of traveling and the holidays and New Year's and all that stuff and people you know taking times |
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