On Sister Wives’ new episode, Janelle Brown said her ex Kody Brown and his wife Robyn Brown “mismanaged” the situation with their youngest daughter, Ariella Brown, early in life.
Janelle Brown is no longer holding back when it comes to her criticisms of her ex Kody Brown.
The Sister Wives star called out her former spouse and his only remaining wife Robyn Brown for how they raised their youngest daughter, Ariella Brown, 8, in a plural family.
“My kids from the very beginning knew that their dad was not going to always be there,” Janelle said of the six children she shares with Kody on the Sept. 29 episode of Sister Wives. “I always felt like Kody and Robyn mismanaged the situation with their children.
He couldn’t be away for more than three or four days because Ari just gets so sad or whatever. I feel like that was poor parenting. Through all history of the family, the other kids did it and they’re fine. They’re well-adjusted adults.”
Kody explained that early into Ariella’s life, he struggled with leaving her for long periods of time due to her emotional response.
“Ariella was melting down,” the father of 18 recalled. “She grabs my leg and won’t let me leave. And I’m like, ‘Robyn I need you to drag her off me.’ And she says, ‘She’s expressing herself.
You’re gonna have to take five minutes and let her do it.’ She’s just dragging along my leg screaming, ‘Don’t leave me, Daddy! Don’t leave me.’ And I’m like, ‘Gah lee, man, this is hard.’”
TLCHowever, despite her daughter’s struggles, Robyn—who shares five with Kody—dismissed the idea that she kept Kody from his other wives at the time.
“She loves her dad. She wants to be around her dad. Yes,” Robyn agreed of Ariella, “But did it ever stop Kody from going to another mom’s home? No, it didn’t. I wouldn’t have allowed it.”
In the wake of Kody’s 2021 split from Christine Brown, 2022 split from Janelle, and 2023 split from Meri Brown, the exes are calling out the discrepancies between their past relationships with Kody and Robyn’s.
TLC“With Robyn there was always a very separateness,” Janelle shared in her confessional. “My children were always scolded if they opened up Robyn’s fridge.”
As for Christine, who shares six children with Kody, she’s opened up about how Kody’s favored treatment of Robyn impacted the kids.
“My kids didn’t like going over there because they saw that Robyn and their dad were a couple and he wasn’t in our home,” she shared. “So they were frustrated.”
But while Kody is only married to Robyn these days, she’s struggled with the loss of her plural family.
“I’m going through a lot of mourning, loss and grieving of the relationships and dealing with some of my own situational depression from it,” she expressed. “It’s just so sad and I miss family members.”
Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
