TLC’s Sister Wives star Janelle continued its 19th season on Sunday with a new episode that found Kody Brown making a bold claim: that he married women he didn’t love.
The 55-year-old Kody first tied the knot with Meri in 1990, with Sister Wives star Janelle Brown following in 1993, Christine in 1994 and Robyn in 2010.
Christine was the first wife to leave in 2021, followed by Janelle in 2022 and Meri in 2023, leaving Robyn as his only remaining wife.
During Sunday’s new episode – entitled Labor of Love – Kody claimed that, ‘I’m guilty of marrying people I wasn’t in love with.’
Sister Wives star Janelle didn’t hesitate to call him out, adding he thinks Kody has a form of ‘amnesia’ when it comes to his marriages.
‘I just think that he has amnesia when it comes to the past because you just can’t keep up that kind of pretense for 20 years,’ she said.
‘I know what happened. He can say whatever he wants. It’s fine because I just don’t care anymore,’ Janelle, 55, added.
Meri added in a confessional of her own that, ‘This is Kody’s current theme, and that is that he never loved me or Janelle or Christine.’
‘It’s getting to the point that it’s annoying. Gosh, Kody, just man up and be honest,’ Meri added in confession.
Part of the episode focused on Kody helping Meri move out, as she got candid about their relationship.
‘I know that I put everything that I could into it and I would still put into it, but I also know that it’s not something that is comfortable for him or right for him or good for him, and that’s not fair to either of us,’ she said in confession.
Kody admitted that ending his marriage with Meri was ‘sad,’ adding it was, ‘the end of an era.’
‘It’s still sad when it doesn’t work,’ Kody admitted during another confessional, while also commenting on talk that Christine found her soul mate with David Wooley.
‘I’m offended for her on the idea that she would be stuck with me for eternity when her soulmate was out there to be found,’ he said.
‘I don’t always know what to believe. The eternal marriage. … Jesus said not to get divorced, but it’s, it’s a big concept, Kody added.
‘I don’t know what to think about it other than it offends me to think that I would be stuck with those three women. It literally does it. It’s like it offends me to think that God would cause me or them to suffer,’ he added.
Sister Wives returns with an all new Season 19 episode – dubbed A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – on Sunday, November 3 on TLC.