Kody Brown admitted on the most recent Sister Wives episode that he had no clue why daughter Maddie Brown doesn’t discuss to him — however her mother, Janelle Brown, had a solution.
“I have no idea what occurred. However throughout the breakup with Christine [Brown], Maddie stopped reaching out to me,” Kody, 54, stated throughout the Sunday, October 29, episode of the TLC collection. “Might need been COVID or I don’t know what was occurring, however she stop reaching out to me.”
Janelle, additionally 54, denied that their daughter Maddie’s actions had something to do with Kody’s third spouse, Christine, 51, leaving in November 2021. It did, nevertheless, have the whole lot to do with Kody.
“Maddie doesn’t name him due to his conduct, recently,” Janelle alleged in a confessional, which was taped in spring 2022. “She’s like, ‘I don’t what to do with him. I don’t know who this man is.’”
Janelle — who shares Maddie, 27, in addition to Logan, 29, Hunter, 26, Garrison, 25, Gabriel, 22, and Savanah, 18, with the patriarch — defined that Maddie’s children additionally play a job in her sudden avoidance of Kody. (Maddie shares son Axel, 6, and daughters Evangalynn, 4, and Josephine, 8 months, with husband Caleb Brush.)
Kody Brown and Maddie Brown. Courtesy of Maddie Brown/Instagram
“She has to think about her kids. She has to think about the soundness of what they see or understand as a grandfather,” Janelle claimed. “There’s plenty of issues at play right here. It’s not simply Maddie not calling him.”
Maddie isn’t the one one among Kody’s kids who started distancing themselves as soon as the household started to collapse. Kody revealed within the episode that his and Christine’s daughter Ysabel additionally appeared off after their break up.
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“Ysabel appears to be uncomfortable plenty of the occasions,” Kody instructed the cameras, noting that his and Christine’s youngest daughter, Truely, “appears completely superb.” (Christine moved to Utah after her break up from Kody in fall 2021 — and has since married David Woolley.)
“My relationship with my dad, it’s by no means been like one hundred pc strong. With the divorce, proper now, the whole lot’s rocky,” Ysabel, 20, who lives with half-sibling Maddie in North Carolina, stated in a confessional. “No one is aware of what to do in a divorce. Then in a divorce with a polygamist household much more so, no one is aware of what to do.”
Maddie Brown and Janelle Brown. Courtesy of Janelle Brown/Instagram
Elsewhere within the episode, Kody confessed that one among his largest fears about Christine leaving was pegged to how it could have an effect on his bond along with his children. Christine and Kody share son Paedon, 25, and daughters Asypyn, 28, Mykelti, 27, Gwendlyn, 22, Ysabel and Truely, 13.
“There’s one factor that I’m continually involved about, which is kind of this gloomy cloud hanging over us more often than not. As a result of after the divorce and stuff like that, there appears to be a bit of little bit of a … it’s a nuance, it’s a bit of undertone of kind of a pressure,” Kody defined. “Like do I belief? Can I belief? From my children.”
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He later contemplated whether or not his need to have the entire plural household reside underneath one roof because the catalyst to all of it falling to items. Along with Christine leaving, Janelle confirmed in December 2022 that she and Kody had separated. Meri Brown then introduced in January that she and Kody had ended their romantic relationship. He’s nonetheless married to fourth spouse Robyn Brown.
“I’m wondering if a number of the failures in plural marriage had been my half in and anticipating an excessive amount of from the household,” Kody instructed the cameras. “With this one household thought, we’d have been extra profitable had we been in numerous properties with the youngsters sort of rising up like they had been cousins.”
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
