Janelle Brown received actual about how her youngest sons, Garrison and Gabriel, have modified since falling out with their dad, Kody Brown.
“I have worried about my boys’ mental health,” Janelle, 54, shared within the Sunday, October 8, episode of Sister Wives. “Gabriel feels everything very, very deeply. But he’s also the kid who doesn’t say anything. And Garrison just seems angry or sadder, like, he’s not as happy, go lucky as he used to be.”
Janelle shares Garrison, 25, and Gabriel, 21, in addition to Logan, 29, Maddie, 27, Hunter, 26, and Savanah, 18, along with her estranged husband, 54. Before Janelle introduced in December 2022 that she and Kody had separated, viewers noticed their household’s dynamic shift.
Last season, Janelle and Kody butted heads over Kody’s response to Garrison and Gabriel allegedly not respecting Kody’s COVID guidelines. The continuous arguments — and the boys’ alleged selection to not apologize to their father — resulted in Janelle and her youngsters celebrating the vacations with out Kody.
“Me and Garrison are at odds with my dad, because when we expressed our discontent at how things were going with COVID, I was met with just a wall,” Gabriel stated on Sunday’s episode, which was taped earlier this 12 months. “Like and there was no line of dialogue. I think that that is what really drove the wedge between us.”
Christine Brown — who introduced her break up from Kody in November 2021 — weighed in on the turmoil between Janelle’s youngsters and Kody in the course of the present.
“My kids are more used to Kody not being in their life. He just wasn’t around as much,” Christine, 51, stated throughout a confessional. “But he has been around Janelle’s kids. For them, this is just a lot more devastating than it has been for my kids.”
Christine, who shares son Paedon, 25, and daughters Aspyn, 28, Mykelti, 27, Gwendlyn, 21, Ysabel, 20, and Truely, 13, with Kody, was the primary of the Brown wives to go away the patriarch. Janelle was second and Meri Brown, who’s Kody’s first spouse, confirmed in January that she and Kody had ended their romantic relationship. Kody remains to be married to Robyn Brown.
Despite her personal ups and downs with Kody, Janelle revealed on Sunday’s episode that she briefly entertained the concept of giving their relationship one other likelihood. However, after going out with Kody for her birthday in May — which was filmed for this episode — she felt otherwise.
“At one point I slipped my hand into his out of habit and I thought, ‘This feels really weird’ and I took my hand back out of his hand,” Janelle instructed the cameras. “It just didn’t feel right anymore.”
Kody, for his half, confessed that he didn’t perceive what he and Janelle couldn’t get again collectively, noting that they’d separated previously however discovered a means again. “I’ve been in love with her before, so, I can be in love with her again. I just feel like we need to reestablish trust,” Kody defined.
Janelle, nonetheless, revealed that she didn’t see a technique to mend their relationship. “You know, there just isn’t anything there anymore there. There just isn’t. Our relationship has been unraveling for years,” she concluded.
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
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