Janelle Briefly ‘Moved Out’ Years Before Split

History repeating itself? Sister Wives’ Kody Brown and estranged spouse Janelle Brown had struggles effectively earlier than they confirmed their cut up in December.

“The family was in a bad place because Janelle moved out,” Kody, 53, revealed throughout half 2 of Sister Wives: One-on-One particular, which aired on Sunday, January 1. “She was done. She moved in with her mother.”

The patriarch defined that Janelle, 53, had points with the household dynamic once they lived in Wyoming within the early 2000s. At the time, the group consisted of Kody, Janelle, Meri Brown and Christine Brown. It wasn’t till 2010 that Robyn Brown joined the polygamist family. Robyn, 43, went on to legally marry Kody in 2014 after he legally divorced Meri, 51, and adopted his fourth spouse’s kids from a previous marriage.

“I didn’t feel like she was leaving me, but she was leaving them because I wasn’t giving her enough support,” Kody mentioned on Sunday’s episode. “[Janelle] and I were constantly working things out.”

The Wyoming native — who spiritually wed the Strive With Janelle founder in 1993 — claimed that Janelle “couldn’t abide with being with Christine and Meri any longer.”

He confessed: “It was just too much strain on her life. She would talk to me about a comment her and her mother would make about the ‘Meri and Christine Club’ because Janelle wasn’t in it. There was just this place where Janelle didn’t feel like she was fitting in.”

Kody recalled having a “pretty strong” rift within the household when Meri, Janelle and Christine all lived in numerous homes in Wyoming.

When the household began to get right into a “groove,” the daddy of 18 threw Janelle for a loop when he advised her that he was “picking up a job” in Utah and wished to uproot everybody.

“She says, ‘I’m not moving with ya. I finally got my life together here,’” he remembered. “That was a real shock to me. That was not healthy.”

Kody famous that Janelle “turned around” when he obtained a large enough home in 2003 within the Beehive State to suit all three wives and their children.

“She’s like, ‘Get that home.’ Because we could all get back together,” the fact star mentioned of Janelle’s change of coronary heart. “She was looking for reconciliation.”

Janelle, for her half, noticed the ups and downs in Wyoming a bit in a different way. “I think Kody remembers it in a way that works for him to remember it. That’s not how I remember it,” the well being coach mentioned in the course of the tell-all. “I think he is looking to blame — like [during] that [time] there was always conflict.”

She confessed: “Yes, there was conflict, but there were really good times too. I really wanted to stay in Wyoming. I really did. I had just started to develop a good life and I didn’t want to leave it.”

Janelle confirmed throughout a teaser for the Sister Wives: One-on-One particular in December that she and Kody had been “separated for several months.” The breakup got here one month after Christine publicly introduced in November 2021 that she had cut up from their shared partner.

Meri, in the meantime, revealed throughout half 1 and half 2 of the tell-all that Kody “already decided” their destiny when he claimed he now not “considered” the pair to be married. “We have a lot of history and I love him,” she mentioned throughout Sunday’s episode. “And he has chosen not to love me and not to want a relationship with me.”

Part 3 of the Sister Wives: One-on-One particular airs on TLC Sunday, January 8, at 10 p.m. ET.