Sister Wives’ Christine Brown Reveals She’s Related to Ex-Husband Kody Brown
Sister Wives’ Christine Brown may have divided herself from Kody Brown in 2021, but she and her ex-husband are still family. On the series’ Dec. 28 episode, the mom of six revealed they’re cousins.
For Gabriel Brown, it was far too late for dad Kody Brown to say sorry. Initially at odds over Kody’s intense COVID restrictions, they continued to keep their distance even as stay home orders began to lift.
Kody’s issue, recounted Janelle Brown, who shares sons Logan Brown, Hunter Brown, Garrison Brown and Gabriel as well as daughters Madison Brush and Savanah Brown, with the patriarch, was that he felt his kids hadn’t been loyal to him and his rules.
“He kept phrasing it like I owed him an apology,” Gabriel detailed to Janelle in an October 2024 episode of Sister Wives. “Eventually I was just like, ‘Hey, unless you’re, like, actually ready to have a relationship and fix things, then we’re not going to talk anymore.’ He came back a couple of days later and texted me. He’s like, ‘Hey, I’ve been, like, thinking about what you’ve been saying. I forgive you, Please forgive me.’ I was like, ‘Forgive me for what?'”
So tight with his dad he used to accompany him on business trips, he remains confused about what he did. But, he noted to Janelle, “I told Dad that if he doesn’t change and he can’t take accountability, then I just won’t ever see him again. And I’m perfectly OK with that.”
One of the few Brown kids who was still close to both Robyn and Kody and Christine and Janelle, Mykelti took on the role of peacekeeper during Kody’s three divorces.
But in the years since, she seems to have resigned from Team Kody, giving her take on the rift months after she and husband Tony Padron made the move to North Carolina with their three children.
“I think that if he took more accountability in any of his actions, his kids—maybe not all of them, but at least some of them—would reach out,” she noted during an October 2024 fan Q&A shared on the Instagram account @withoutacrystalball. “Instead of blaming the children, or blaming how they feel about his relationship with his other wife or blaming the parents or blaming gossip or whatever, if he just said, ‘Look, I understand I did blank wrong. I’m sorry. Can we talk about it?’ I feel like that would go such a long way.”
As for his stance that he shouldn’t need to beg his children to repair their relationship, she wasn’t having it.
“No matter what happens between myself and my kids, I would always sit outside that door, knock, apologize and ask, and ask, and ask, and just continue to try to do whatever I could to make that relationship stronger,” the mom of three insisted, before referencing Kody’s claim that his former wives had metaphorically stabbed him in the back. “I feel like that’s what you do as a parent. Sometimes you just have to take the knife in the kidney, get over it, and apologize.”