Why Sister Wives’ Janelle Brown “Just Doesn’t Like” Ex Kody Brown & Robyn Brown
Janelle Brown is prioritizing her loved ones.
The Sister Wives star admitted that she’s not interested in keeping a bond with her ex Kody Brown, who is now in a monogamous relationship with Robyn Brown.
“I can still be very friendly with Kody,” Janelle explained to host Sukanya Krishnan during the TLC series’ June 1 one-on-one special. “I never really had much of a relationship with Robyn. I don’t have hate or hard feelings, I just don’t really want to know them.”
“I could sit and talk to them,” she continued. “That would be fine if it were all superficial. That’s no big deal. I’m just not going to be buddies with them or go to lunch with them.”
While she can behave cordially with Kody—with whom she shares kids Logan Brown, 31, Madison Brush, 29, Hunter Brown, 28, the late Garrison Brown, 25, Gabriel Brown, 23, and Savanah Brown, 20—Janelle doesn’t plan to deepen their relationship.
“As far as trying to get together and make us interact, it’s because I really wouldn’t like that,” the 56-year-old said. “I don’t like them in that setting. I just don’t like them. I don’t want to be friends with them.”
As she simply put it, “I don’t need it, I don’t want it. I’m not looking for it.”
For Kody’s ex-wives, including Meri Brown and Christine Brown, his relationship with Robyn had been an ongoing point of contention in their household. Janelle sees his escalatingly negative behavior with his exes as a response to that dynamic.
“I feel like a lot of people want to pin the blame on Robyn,” she reflected. “I don’t think that she is necessarily innocent in this. It takes two. I think, in a lot of ways, he’s made himself more villainous to take away some of the blame from her.”
“I don’t remember him being this mean,” she explained. “All this stuff with rewriting history, I feel like he wants to focus on himself and not so much on Robyn because there are a lot of accusations being thrown around about her.”
Janelle emphasized that she disagrees with the thought that Robyn “broke up the family” and that “she never wanted a plural family.”
Meanwhile, Kody—who now claimed in the May 25 special that he “never loved” Meri—has vehemently denied that his romance with Robyn caused the downfall of his other marriages. He emphasized, “My relationship with Robin hasn’t been affected by these other relationships.”
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Kody Brown insisted he was ready to divide himself from first wife Meri Brown shortly after their 1990 vows. But “he led me to believe that he would work on things by saying, ‘Oh Meri, when we move to Flagstaff, this will be a good time to have a new beginning for us,'” Meri shared in the Sept. 15 premiere, referencing their 2018 move. “Like he led me to believe those things. This is what he’s done for many, many years.”
Her main gripe, she shared, is “his lack of communication and how he really felt and what he really wanted or what he really didn’t want and the story that he’s been telling for all these years.”
And while Kody acknowledged that there may have been “mixed messages,” it was only because as he started to work on things, “I’m like, ‘Why would I do this?'” he explained. “I would not court and date her now.”
Either way, Meri’s friends were thrilled when she finally pulled the plug in early 2023.
“They’re like, ‘OK, we’re here for you, we’re supporting you. And it’s about damn time,'” she confessed. Blinders off, she now feels that he had been trying to get her to walk away for years by insisting he didn’t love her, “Because if he can push me out and I leave, he’s not the bad guy because he didn’t walk away.”
