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Janelle Brownis standing firm where her kids are concerned.
TheSister Wivesstar, 54, opens up about the rift between some of her kids and exKody Brown, also 54, in the season premiere episode of the TLC reality series.
Janelle is hanging out withChristine Brownand some of the kids when the subject of the holidays comes up.
“Kody feels like they owe him a big apology and some sort of conversation and stuff for being disrespectful,” calling the situation a “disagreement.”
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In a confessional, Kody says he doesn’t want to have a holiday experience without having a chance to “clear the air” prior.
“If something political or something about COVID or my own experience with it comes up, and we end up devolving into an angry conversation,” he explains. “That’s a stupidity that I’m not going to bring into my house for holidays.”
Christine expresses concerns that her breakup with Kody is causing stress, explaining in a confessional.
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“Kody told me I was breaking up the family, like it’s my fault that the family is breaking up. Dude? If my relationship with my sister wives is up to me and it’s my fault that I have a bad relationship with my sister wives, how is it not your fault that you have a bad relationship with your children?
In his confessional, Kody accuses Janelle — with whom he also shares Savanah, 18, Hunter, 25, Madison, 27 and Logan, 28 — of “undermining my ability to lead the family.”
“I could be a great leader in the family, and I should be in spite of their undermining, but i don’t have the exposure to the children that the mothers have in this family. So having the mothers support me would be the thing to do.”
The two ladies disagree as they discuss the situation, with Janelle explaining in her confessional, “Kody and I have been through some tough spots and we’ve always come out of them. But I can’t really be in a full relationship with him if he’s going to be estranged from my children. It just seems really wrong.”
She continues, “A big part of my relationship with Kody has been the fact that he was such an engaged father, he was such good dad. And now he doesn’t even want to be that anymore, so I don’t know who that guy is. Who is that guy?”
“Kody and I have separated and I’m happy,really happy,” Janelle told host Sukanya Krishnan onSister Wives: One on Onespecial in January. “I don’t know, things just really became sort of indifferent, like I just didn’t care anymore.”
Janelle also said that she was “not waiting” for a possible reconciliation with Kody. “I’ve kind of mourned that that part of our life is gone,” she shared. “I wasn’t heartbroken. It wasn’t heartbreaking for me like it was for Christine. It was just kind of like, I just mourned that that life was gone…. We had this great run.”
Season 18 ofSister Wivespremieres Aug. 20 at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
source: people.com
