Sister Wives patriarch Kody Brown is admitting that his relationships with most of his grown kids are strained.
“I believe many of the relationships between me and my grownup kids are strained,” the dad of 18 mentioned within the TLC sequence’ October 5 episode. “It’s a problem of trash speak and innuendo, and it has challenged loyalties and belief on all sides.”
The confession got here as Mykelti Padron—one in all Kody’s six youngsters with third spouse Christine Brown—was getting ready to maneuver from Utah to North Carolina together with her husband Tony Padron, their 4-year-old daughter Avalon, and 2-year-old twin sons Ace and Archer in July 2024.
Lamenting that she’d requested her dad and his sole remaining spouse, Robyn Brown, to drive from Arizona to Utah earlier than their departure, the 29-year-old advised Christine, “It didn’t occur. It’s what it’s.”
Whereas Mykelti had been one of the vital supportive of her father—apart from his 5 youngsters with Robyn: Dayton, 25, Aurora, 23, Breanna, 21, Solomon, 13, and Ariella, 9—Christine revealed that even their shut ties had begun to unravel.
Kody cited busy schedules as the explanation they didn’t join, however Christine defined, “Mykelti and Tony have been simply unhappy that they weren’t in a position to see Kody and Robyn and the youngsters earlier than they moved. The entire thing’s simply been unhappy. The connection with them is simply not what Mykelti hoped it might be.”
Three months after the cross-country transfer, Mykelti shared her perspective on the rift. “I believe that if he took extra accountability in any of his actions, his youngsters—possibly not all of them, however a minimum of a few of them—would attain out,” she mentioned throughout an October 2024 fan Q&A on @withoutacrystalball. “As an alternative of blaming the kids, or blaming how they really feel about his relationship together with his different spouse or blaming the dad and mom or blaming gossip or no matter, if he simply mentioned, ‘Look, I perceive I did clean unsuitable. I’m sorry. Can we speak about it?’ I really feel like that might go such a good distance.”
She additionally pushed again on Kody’s view that he shouldn’t must beg his youngsters for reconciliation. “It doesn’t matter what occurs between myself and my youngsters, I’d at all times sit outdoors that door, knock, apologize and ask and ask and ask and simply proceed to attempt to do no matter I might to make that relationship stronger,” she mentioned. Referencing Kody’s declare that his former wives had metaphorically stabbed him within the again, she added, “I really feel like that’s what you do as a mum or dad. Typically you simply should take the knife within the kidney, recover from it, and apologize.”
