United Kingdom, June 19 -- Jax Taylor found being served divorce papers to be "devastating".

The 45-year-old TV star emerged from a stint in rehab to find that Brittany Cartwright was planning to divorce him, and Jax has now admitted to feeling overwhelmed by the situation.

Jax - who has Cruz, four, with Brittany - said on The Valley: "Imagine coming out of a facility, dealing with your mental health issues and then being slammed with divorce papers. And then, on top of it, it going public before you've even had the time to digest it. It's hard.

"Getting those divorce papers, it's devastating.

"We're both so hurt. We both hurt each other so much in the last couple of years. We don't have anything left."

Jax felt "safe" during his sti...