United Kingdom, April 9 -- Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor's son Cruz Cauchi has autism.

The 36-year-old actress, who filed for divorce from her husband in 2024 after four years of marriage, has revealed their three-year-old boy was diagnosed with the neurodevelopmental condition in October 2024.

Brittany added that she acts as "his voice now" because he stopped speaking ahead of his second birthday.

Speaking about Cruz - who will "sporadically say different words" - she told PEOPLE: "Our life is going to look a little bit different, but I feel like I was meant to be his mom.

"He is my better half. He is my little partner in crime. He is everything to me, and even though he can't talk, I know everything that he wants, everything th...