Janelle Brown and Christine Brown each left polygamy — however they don’t see eye to eye on how the faith is perceived, particularly by Christine’s new husband, David Woolley.
“Once I noticed David [on the show], it simply made my abdomen simply flip,” Janelle, 56, confesses in Us Weekly’s sneak peek on the Sunday, January 25, episode of Sister Wives: 1-on-1. “As a result of I feel it’s incorrect to color all people with the comb of your one expertise.”
Janelle’s response comes after David, 61, claimed on a season 20 episode of the TLC collection that males in polygamy “love the combating” and “love the competitors between the ladies.”
He additional alleged within the November 2025 episode that polygamy is used to “management ladies,” noting that his older sister was “mentally broken” by the “type of crap that her husband pulled on her.”
Janelle Brown, Christine Brown. Courtesy of Janelle Brown/Instagram
Janelle, nevertheless, has a special expertise with the faith after residing it herself for almost 30 years earlier than her cut up from Kody Brown in 2022.
“I’m not denying that his sister had this expertise,” Janelle says of David within the preview, noting, “I feel numerous issues occur in monogamy. I feel numerous issues occur in every kind of relationships that may be actually screwed up.”
Christine, in the meantime, tells Sister Wives: 1-on-1 host Sukanya Krishnan within the sneak peek that it’s “arduous” to completely agree with David’s notion of polygamy as a result of she has “household that also lives it.”
Sister Wives star Christine Brown is grateful polygamy introduced her sister spouse Janelle Brown, however that doesn’t imply she is eager for the approach to life. “No, no, no, no. I like a monogamy,” Christine, 51, completely advised Us Weekly earlier this month when requested whether or not she is misses plural marriage. Christine referred to as her and husband David […]
“However then it comes right down to it, he’s proper. He’s proper,” Christine, 53, says. She claims, “I see extra unhappiness in polygamy than anything. I take a look at so many polygamous households they usually don’t look completely happy. It’s simply unhappy.”
Christine, who was spiritually married to Kody, 56, from 1994 to 2021, then ponders what’s the “secret sauce” that “convinces” ladies to be “OK” with the construction of polygamy.
She wonders “what’s the secret that they inform” ladies to join having their husbands in “this different relationship with this different lady” the place it “makes you higher,” however it’s important to cut up time.
David Woolley, Christine Brown. Courtesy of David Woolley/Instagram
Christine muses that it was “half [of] my tradition” rising up so she didn’t query it proper out the gate. (Her mother and father had been polygamists when she was a toddler.)
David additionally weighs in on the subject within the upcoming episode, claiming the ladies are “indoctrinated” to suppose a sure approach. Nevertheless, he all the time questioned the premise of 1 man with a number of wives.
“I’m wanting on the opposite facet from my expertise,” David says within the video, noting he was a toddler when he was uncovered to polygamy together with his sisters.
He recollects questioning, “If that is presupposed to be some righteous factor, why is it so depressing? So how is it so proper?”
As Sister Wives followers know, Kody had three wives, Meri Brown, Janelle and Christine, when the present started in 2010. He was courting fourth spouse Robyn Brown when the cameras started rolling, whom he spiritually wed that very same yr.
In 2014, Kody divorced Meri, 54, so he might legally marry Robyn, 47, and undertake her three kids from a previous marriage.
Lower than a decade later, their household fell aside when Christine introduced her cut up from Kody in 2021. Janelle adopted go well with in 2022 and Meri introduced in 2023 that she and Kody had parted methods. Robyn remains to be married to Kody. Christine, in the meantime, married David in October 2023.
Half 3 of Sister Wives: 1-on-1 airs on TLC Sunday, January 25, at 10 p.m. ET.
