Following Kody Brown’s breakups with three of his 4 wives, his relationships with most of his grownup kids have change into strained — together with these with daughters Ysabel Brown and Maddie Brown.
Christine Brown and Kody’s daughter Ysabel, 22, received actual on the Sunday, November 30, episode of Sister Wives about how her stepfather, David Woolley, has factored into her life amid her rocky dynamic with Kody, 56.
“When my mother and David first began relationship, all of it occurred, like, very quick, and I wasn’t used to a different man in my mother’s life. So, I used to be actually anxious about what sort of position he would take up,” Ysabel stated, referring to Christine and David’s whirlwind romance earlier than they tied the knot in October 2023. “I used to be anxious principally that he would take up the position of father in our household, which, now we have a dad.”
Ysabel confessed, “I believed that he would possibly take up an excessive amount of house,” revealing that David “doesn’t do this” and he “by no means oversteps.”
She gushed, “He’s very respectful. He’s very respectful of my dad. He’s very respectful of my mother and her children and that she is a mother to us and that he’s her husband and never our dad.”
Ysabel shared that David’s place in her life — being hands-on with out changing Kody — is “a tough factor to steadiness, particularly in case your dad isn’t very, like, prevalent in your life.”
She advised the cameras that she and Kody haven’t spent a ton of time collectively since Christine, 53, left him in November 2021. (Christine and Kody share six kids, together with Ysabel.)
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“My dad and I don’t discuss fairly often, no,” Ysabel defined. “My dad and I aren’t, like, shut, shut, shut, shut, shut, shut. However I imply, he’s nonetheless my dad and I really like him.”
Ysabel added that over the previous few years she “realized how a lot of a task my mother has in my life,” calling Christine “two folks in a single.”
“She might be the dad and he or she might be the mother and he or she’s excellent at it. After which David’s superior too,” Ysabel concluded.
Elsewhere within the episode, Maddie, 30, who’s Kody’s eldest daughter with Janelle Brown, shared an replace on her ongoing rift along with her father.
Throughout the newest episode of Sister Wives, Kody Brown put the blame on Christine Brown and Janelle Brown for his points with their respective children. “Christine and Janelle have sort [of] banded along with this entire factor,” Kody, 54, claimed within the Sunday, September 17, episode of the TLC sequence. “[They] principally shattered my entire […]
After Janelle, 56, revealed that Kody reached out to arrange a time to go to her in North Carolina following their 2022 cut up, Maddie stated she is hopeful that sometime they’ll all be in a greater place.
“I believe there may very well be forgiveness,” Maddie, who’s a mom of 4 herself, advised her mother.
Janelle confessed, “It appears up to now on the market for him to have a relationship with you guys once more,” referring to Maddie and her 4 remaining siblings. (Janelle and Kody welcomed six kids throughout their marriage. Their son Garrison died by suicide in March 2024 on the age of 25.)
“I’m open to reconciliation and forgiveness and simply closure,” Maddie defined. “But when he ever needed to be let again into our lives, there would must be a sample of consistency.”
Madison Brown Courtesy of Madison Brush/Instagram
Janelle, for her half, famous that she and Kody are “fairly” good in terms of working collectively, noting they’d been involved a couple of occasions since Garrison’s passing.
“He known as to test on me on the anniversary of Garrison’s dying. And on his birthday, he known as to test on me,” Janelle stated. “And I truly considered calling him, however I’m like, ‘Is that bizarre?’ Nevertheless it was high quality. Like, it was all high quality.”
As Sister Wives followers know, Kody was married to Meri Brown, Janelle, Christine and Robyn Brown earlier than their plural household began to crumble a couple of years in the past. (Kody and Robyn, 47, are nonetheless married.)
When Christine introduced her cut up from Kody in 2021, she revealed that Kody had not been sleeping in her room for a while and stated she thought-about herself a single mum or dad.
Maddie Brown is opening up about her boundaries with members of the family and why she has “no contact with some” of them – together with her dad, Kody Brown. “It’s due to stuff that has occurred,” Maddie, 29, shared on the Monday, November 11, episode of her “The Genuine Society” podcast, later including of her estranged father, […]
Janelle, in the meantime, hit a tough patch with Kody previous to their 2022 separation after he butted heads along with her sons Garrison and Gabriel, 24, over his guidelines throughout the coronavirus pandemic shutdown.
Meri, 54, confirmed in January 2023 that she and Kody had parted methods. Their one little one, Leon, 30, just lately spoke out about their relationship with Kody after he claimed on Sister Wives earlier this month that he “reached out to each one in every of my kids” on a number of events to make amends.
Based on Leon, that isn’t the case. “Let me be so f***ing clear: I’ve not heard from that man since my brother killed himself,” Leon wrote by way of their Instagram Story on Tuesday, November 25, referring to Garrison’s dying.
“Kody blatantly blew me off at Garrison’s funeral,” Leon alleged, calling Kody “a liar. He’s a joke of a father. That’s all.”
Us Weekly beforehand reached out to TLC for remark.
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
