Sister Wives’ Kody Brown Floats the Idea of a Woman “Joining the Family” in New Season 20 Trailer
In the trailer for Sister Wives’ 20th season, Kody Brown talks to wife Robyn Brown about another woman “joining the family” and offers an apology to exes Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown.
Griping about the family’s inability to pay off Coyote Pass, Janelle said Kody claimed to have “all these other debts.” And, yet, she’s watched him snap up other assets like trailers and home décor. “I see all the art on their walls,” she said of Robyn and Kody’s home. “I see all these things. And that’s fine, I have money and I’ve spent it on things, too.” (For his part Kody said much of his cash went to buying cars—”Basically had a fleet”—and insurance for the kids.)
And while Janelle acknowledged she wasn’t sure how Kody and Robyn handled their finances, “I used to always be surprised at how nice her backyard was. It was completely finished. And there was always, like, stuff at her house. And I was like, ‘Wow. Huh.'”
Bottom line, she said, “He doesn’t prioritize what I need or what I want.” And that issue eventually wore her down. “I think after a while, I began to see it, and my kids were getting very angry about it, like my adult children. Like, ‘What the hell, Mom?'”
Robyn’s take, however, was that she was very careful with her budget after her first marriage fell apart.
“I used to be not so great with money,” she shared during the Sept. 22 episode. “When I was young, I had hard knocks, and then I learned during my divorce really how to budget myself very, very well.” As for her fellow sister wives, she said, “You just must have had a different priority of where your money was going to go than I did, that’s all.”
While it’s clear that Kody and his adult children have very different viewpoints of their ongoing estrangement, one sticking point is his demanding some sort of mea culpa.
“After the COVID scare was over and we all went back to our normal lives, we still couldn’t reconcile as a family because Kody felt like the boys needed to give an apology to him and to Robyn, especially to Robyn,” Janelle shared of her sons in the Oct. 13 episode. “And after it sort of morphed into this, well, they just need to come and talk to me.”
Kody’s issue, Janelle continued, was that he felt his kids hadn’t been loyal to him “and the most precious person in this family who’s given her heart and soul has been disrespected or some bulls–t like that,” she summed up. “And I’m like, ‘Whatever Kody. Yeah, whatever.'”
Gabriel shared a similar stance, describing one conversation with his father. “He kept like phrasing it like I owed him an apology,” he recounted to Janelle. “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?'”