Why Sister Wives’ Kody Brown’s Daughter Maddie ‘Doesn’t Call’ Him

Kody Brown admitted on the most recent Sister Wives episode that he had no clue why daughter Maddie Brown doesn’t discuss to him — however her mother, Janelle Brown, had a solution.

“I do not know what happened. But during the breakup with Christine [Brown], Maddie stopped reaching out to me,” Kody, 54, mentioned in the course of the Sunday, October 29, episode of the TLC collection. “Might have been COVID or I have no idea what was going on, but she quit reaching out to me.”

Janelle, additionally 54, denied that their daughter Maddie’s actions had something to do with Kody’s third spouse, Christine, 51, leaving in November 2021. It did, nonetheless, have all the pieces to do with Kody.

“Maddie doesn’t call him because of his behavior, lately,” Janelle alleged in a confessional, which was taped in spring 2022. “She’s like, ‘I don’t what to do with him. I don’t know who this guy is.’”

Janelle — who shares Maddie, 27, in addition to Logan, 29, Hunter, 26, Garrison, 25, Gabriel, 22, and Savanah, 18, with the patriarch — defined that Maddie’s youngsters additionally play a task in her sudden avoidance of Kody. (Maddie shares son Axel, 6, and daughters Evangalynn, 4, and Josephine, 8 months, with husband Caleb Brush.)

“She has to consider her children. She has to consider the stability of what they see or perceive as a grandfather,” Janelle claimed. “There’s a lot of things at play here. It’s not just Maddie not calling him.”

Maddie isn’t the one one in all Kody’s youngsters who started distancing themselves as soon as the household started to crumble. Kody revealed within the episode that his and Christine’s daughter Ysabel additionally appeared off after their break up.

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“Ysabel seems to be uncomfortable a lot of the times,” Kody instructed the cameras, noting that his and Christine’s youngest daughter, Truely, “seems perfectly fine.” (Christine moved to Utah after her break up from Kody in fall 2021 — and has since married David Woolley.)

“My relationship with my dad, it’s never been like 100 percent solid. With the divorce, right now, everything’s rocky,” Ysabel, 20, who lives with half-sibling Maddie in North Carolina, mentioned in a confessional. “Nobody knows what to do in a divorce. Then in a divorce with a polygamist family even more so, nobody knows what to do.”

Elsewhere within the episode, Kody confessed that one in all his greatest fears about Christine leaving was pegged to how it could have an effect on his bond along with his youngsters. Christine and Kody share son Paedon, 25, and daughters Asypyn, 28, Mykelti, 27, Gwendlyn, 22, Ysabel and Truely, 13.

“There’s one thing that I’m constantly concerned about, which is sort of this gloomy cloud hanging over us most of the time. Because after the divorce and stuff like that, there seems to be a little bit of a … it’s a nuance, it’s a little undertone of sort of a strain,” Kody defined. “Like do I trust? Can I trust? From my kids.”

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He later contemplated whether or not his need to have the entire plural household dwell underneath one roof because the catalyst to all of it falling to items. In addition to Christine leaving, Janelle confirmed in December 2022 that she and Kody had separated. Meri Brown then introduced in January that she and Kody had ended their romantic relationship. He remains to be married to fourth spouse Robyn Brown.

“I wonder if some of the failures in plural marriage were my part in and expecting too much from the family,” Kody instructed the cameras. “With this one family idea, we might have been more successful had we been in different homes with the kids kind of growing up like they were cousins.”

Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.