Janelle Brown published when she knew she couldn’t keep married to Kody Brown all the way through the latest Sister Better halves: Communicate Again episode.
“Honestly, for me, it really came down to the kids,” Janelle, 54, stated all the way through section 1 of the TLC particular, which aired on Friday, December 22, whilst rewatching the season 18 premiere.
After a fan requested Janelle whether or not she wanted she’d “left sooner,” she stated that she is worked up along with her timeline. The previous couple have been spiritually married for just about 30 years earlier than Janelle introduced their separation in December 2022.
“I would’ve stayed if Kody had stayed the father that he was for my kids for many, many years,” she defined. “But when the relationship with the kids broke down, that cost was no longer a factor.”
Kody, 54, and Janelle proportion six kids — Logan, 29, Maddie, 27, Hunter, 26, Garrison, 25, Gabriel, 21, and Savanah, 18. Forward in their cut up, the twosome butted heads over Kody’s remedy in their sons Gabe and Garrison after the youngsters allegedly brushed aside Kody’s strict COVID-19 laws in 2020. Consequently, Janelle and her children didn’t spend the 2021 vacation season with Kody and the remainder of the circle of relatives.
In Sunday’s particular, Janelle and her fellow Sister Better halves costars reacted to quite a lot of moments from the season 18 premiere, one in every of which used to be Janelle telling Christine Brown that Kody nonetheless sought after an “apology” from their boys, claiming that’s why they have been doing “separate” Christmas occasions.
“Janelle wants to be separate. She’s trying to put it all on me. Janelle doesn’t want to have Christmas with Meri [Brown] and with Robyn [Brown] and with me. She’d rather have a Christmas with Christine,” Kody alleged on Sunday’s episode as he watched the scene along fourth spouse Robyn, 45. “So she’s making this excuse about the boys.”
Robyn requested her husband if that’s what Janelle stated, to which he answered, “No. That’s my interpretation.” Kody defined, “As I’ve sat here and watched our episodes, what I’ve seen from Janelle is that Janelle is punching a button specifically to make me look bad with the family.”
He claimed that Janelle used to be “telling the boys” that he sought after to do Christmas one after the other to “get them on her side.” Kody additional alleged, “She’s specially trying to destroy my character with my family. F–k sister wives!”
Janelle completely instructed Us Weekly in November that “there’s still not a lot of movement” in the case of Kody repairing his courting with Gabe and Garrison. “My youngest, Savanah, does see her dad, but we live right there in Flagstaff, [Arizona],” she stated, including, “I’m hoping, again, that time heals.”
Sister Better halves: Communicate Again section 2 airs on TLC Friday, December 29, at 9 p.m. ET.