Sister Wives’ Janelle Brown Insists “There Was No Backdoor Deal” With Ex Kody Brown in Coyote Pass Sale
Sister Wives’ star Janelle Brown insisted in an E! News exclusive preview of the show’s Jan. 18 One-on-One special that there was “no backdoor deal” with ex Kody Brown to sell Coyote Pass home.
While Janelle stopped short of suggesting Kody went through a mid-life crisis, she shared on the Nov. 23 episode that something shifted once he hit his milestone birthday.
Happily ensconced with fourth wife Robyn at that point, “Kody turned 50 and all of a sudden he started making all this noise about he was carrying the whole family and I think he had this wife who just was his soulmate or whatever,” Janelle detailed, explaining that he felt maintaining four unions was “too exhausting.”
But Kody took issue with the idea that he didn’t put in the work.
“I never shirked my responsibilities ever in this family,” he insisted in his own confessional. “I was always there and I gave 110 percent every time. I felt like I wasn’t getting that from the rest of my family.”
And, with three soon-to-be ex wives pushing him to change, “I guess we all went through menopause together,” he added, “because there is such thing as male menopause and my testosterone probably just fell to the floor and I just didn’t want to do the hard work anymore.”
Things got a bit wild as the family worked to unload their Arizona property, Coyote Pass. To hear Kody tell it, Janelle attempted to plunge that metaphorical knife in Meri’skidneys, suggesting they sell the land without her sign-off.
“Janelle came to me with the idea you can force the sale on this,” Kody detailed to host Sukanya Krishnan during the first part of the season-ending One-on-One special Jan. 11, “and then started pressuring me.”
Admittedly, with Meri stalling over signing the paperwork, Kody shared, “I was getting frustrated enough to just sell the property and then I’ll distribute money at my convenience.”
And, according to him, Janelle was on board, asserting she felt she’d get her share at least.
“Janelle just wanted to be paid,” Kody explained. “She was worried about losing the buyer, you know, and I’m like, this property is so rare that its price isn’t going to go down.”
But that’s not exactly how the exchange went down, Janelle insisted.
“All I can do is be responsible for what I know I said—I can’t be responsible for how they perceived or what they think,” she explained of the situation. “My lawyers had said, ‘You might want to consider just trying to get the sale to go through.’ And I told Kody that I had been advised that, but that I really wanted to try to get this to work out.”