Robyn Brown broke into tears on Sister Wives after evaluating her rocky childhood to husband Kody Brown’s points along with his estranged youngsters.
“After I see Kody being rejected by his children, I see myself,” Robyn, 47, mentioned on the Sunday, November 23, episode of the TLC collection. “My dad, Paul, married my mother once I was about 9 years outdated. Paul was completely great to me.”
She defined by way of tears, “And whereas I used to be indignant and did reject my organic father for years, I do perceive how a lot I wanted him and nonetheless would like to have him in my life and in my children’ life.”
Robyn obtained choked up, saying, “I appear to be my organic father. I appear to be him greater than my mother.”
Robyn’s feedback got here after her husband, Kody, 56, confessed to feeling damaged up over his present relationship with the vast majority of his older children. He in contrast it to the friendship he missed out on along with his personal father.
“There’s a phrase I heard, ‘The knife of the daddy isn’t out of the guts of his youngsters,’” Kody advised Robyn. “That breaks my coronary heart. I want so badly that I might’ve fastened issues with my very own dad whereas he was alive.”
Kody began to cry serious about the missed alternative. “I advised Grandma Cheryl as soon as, I mentioned, ‘Cheryl, what I’d do, what I’d give to take a seat all the way down to have a pair beers with my dad.’ And she or he simply checked out me and mentioned, ‘I believe he would have actually preferred that.’”
The truth star famous that not less than he “obtained a beer with Garrison the final time we ate collectively,” referring to his and ex-wife Janelle Brown’s late son, Robert “Garrison” Brown, who died by suicide in March 2024 on the age of 25.
“I’m positive that that was a candy reminiscence for him,” Robyn commented, noting that Kody’s melancholy proves he has “some regrets” about his parenting in recent times.
Followers of Sister Wives know that earlier than Kody’s splits from Christine Brown, Janelle, 56, and Meri Brown, in 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively, his relationships with lots of his youngsters weren’t nice.
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Kody didn’t see the vast majority of his grownup youngsters due to his lockdown guidelines. He butted heads most along with his and Janelle’s sons, Garrison and Gabriel, 24, which was documented on Sister Wives.
The Brown Household in 2010. Joe Pugliese/TLC/Everett Assortment
Janelle taking her children’ facet of their arguments with Kody added to their marital rigidity forward of their breakup. (Kody and Janelle welcomed six children throughout their marriage.)
As soon as Kody cut up from his first three wives, his dynamic with their youngsters didn’t enhance. Earlier this season, followers realized that his and Janelle’s daughter Maddie, 30, didn’t inform her dad she was pregnant with child No. 4, due to their estrangement.
Kody has a equally strained relationship along with his and Christine’s six children — however does see their youngest daughter, Truely, 13, on a extra frequent foundation. Meri, in the meantime, shares one youngster, Leon, 30, with Kody, whom he not often talks about on digital camera. (Robyn and Kody share son Solomon, 14, and daughter Ariella, 9. Kody additionally adopted Robyn’s three older youngsters after they legally wed in 2014.)
“I started working on me, as a result of I’m indignant about what a whole lot of the youngsters have mentioned, executed and believed,” Kody confessed on Sunday’s episode. “However I’ve additionally obtained to have the instruments to have the ability to have interaction in a relationship, placing my emotions apart and alluring them to step into an area the place we are able to talk safely and lovingly.”
He contemplated the concept of getting a therapist so his children might communicate freely with him about their rocky relationships. Robyn preferred the concept, hinting that it would repair what she thinks Kody’s exes have made worse.
“I believe there’s some damage emotions and misunderstandings and a few influencing that’s been occurring. Some fairly intense influencing,” Robyn mentioned, seemingly referring to her former sister wives’ strategy to their splits.
Robyn added, “I don’t suppose mother and father truly utterly understand how a lot little issues they are saying truly affect the best way their youngsters take into consideration the opposite father or mother. And in plural marriage, dad’s not across the identical quantity as mother.”
Christine, 53, clapped again on the insulation, telling the cameras, “I’m simply exhausted and so uninterested in being blamed for a way his children really feel about him. It’s his duty and never mine.”
Janelle famous, “I want I had a whole lot of affect on my grownup youngsters,” joking, “Boy, issues could be actually totally different.”
Kody, for his half, claimed, “I’ve reached out to each one in every of my youngsters, and a number of instances. And in the event that they don’t have a relationship with me, it’s as a result of they’re not reciprocating.”
Robyn reminded her accomplice, “It doesn’t matter what any of them say, there’ll at all times be a Kody-sized gap of their hearts if you happen to’re not there.”
She identified that since their household broke up, it’s been “actually, actually difficult” for everybody, particularly the youngsters.
“I had a whole lot of imply issues to say about their moms [and that was] a part of the issue,” Kody confessed. “That wasn’t a street I ought to have ever gone down.”
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
