Sister Wives' Madison Brush Announces She’s Pregnant With Baby No. 4

Kody Brown insisted he was ready to disagreement himself from first spouse Meri Brown soon aft their 1990 vows. But "he led maine to judge that he could toil connected things by saying, 'Oh Meri, astatine that long ourselves move to Flagstaff, this intent beryllium a bully long to person a caller opening for us,'" Meri shared in nan Sept. 15 premiere, referencing their 2018 move. "Like he led maine to judge those things. This is that he's done for many, galore years."

Her main gripe, she shared, is "his deficiency of connection and really he really felt and that he really wanted aliases that he really didn't crave and nan communicative that he's been telling for each these years."

And during Kody acknowledged that location whitethorn person been "mixed messages," it was only because arsenic he started to toil connected things, "I'm like, 'Why could I do this?'" he explained. "I could not tribunal and day her now."

Either way, Meri's friends were thrilled when she still pulled nan plug successful early 2023. 

"They’re like, 'OK, we're present for you, we’re supporting you. And it’s astir damn time,'" she confessed. Blinders off, she now feels that he had been trying to get her to stride distant for years by insisting he didn’t emotion her, "Because if he tin push maine retired and I leave, he's not nan bad feline because he didn't stride away."

Years aft nan family purchased nan 14-acre crippled of onshore they planned to build connected successful Flagstaff, Ariz., Kody confessed in nan play premiere that he was fresh to fto nan dream wither. Unable to build lacking paying disconnected nan afloat $820,000 value tag (which the family reportedly did successful 2023), he told remaining spouse Robyn Brown, "I’d almost alternatively scrap it aliases waste it and past conscionable commencement again location else."

As for Robyn, "I can’t talk astir that," she responded. "That is truthful not successful that spot I’m at."

While 2nd spouse Janelle Brown previously told E! News, “We conscionable benignant of started to turn apart,” still it was Kody’s lapses arsenic a parent to immoderate of their kids that pushed her to leave.

"The large spark for maine was astatine that long his narration collapsed down alongside my children and he didn't look for illustration he could move eden and world to hole it," explained nan mom to Logan Brown, Madison Brown Brush, Hunter Brown, Garrison Brown, Gabriel Brown and Savanah Brown. "And I thought, OK, that was that was really holding maine here."

That was nan mentation Kody gave for not moving harder to mend nan rifts he was experiencing alongside respective of his big children.

"I don’t fresh successful nan family anymore," he griped successful nan Sept. 15 episode. Noting he was still afloat joined to Robyn and parenting their 5 kids together—Dayton Brown, Aurora Brown, Breanna Brown, Solomon Brown and Ariella Brown—he added, "and past I person immoderate narration alongside immoderate of nan different kids and it's infrequent. And truthful I'm like, that do I do alongside each of this? It doesn’t consciousness for illustration a family."

Despite being genuinely monogamous for nan first long successful their 14-year union, "We’re probably doing nan worst we’ve ever done successful our marriage," Robyn confessed successful nan play 19 premiere. "It’s been sturdy betwixt us. He doesn’t cognize that person to blame, himself aliases 1 of nan different wives. Kody’s emotion a batch of rejection and truthful I deliberation he’s benignant of looking astatine maine going, 'Are oneself going to cull maine too?'"

As a result, she revealed, "I’m connected my toes. I’m having to consistently make judge that he is not sabotaging our relationship." The hardest part, she summed up: "There’s nary assets to thief alongside nan thought that I’m still joined to a man who’s going done divorces."

Kody, meanwhile, was having a situation of confidence, sharing, "I can’t look myself successful nan reflector and say, 'Hey, dude. I emotion you.'"

Add Janelle’s eldest girl Madison to nan database of kids Kody doesn’t presently person a narration with. "I cognize that Maddie has not had immoderate conversations alongside her dad," Janelle explained during nan premiere. "He's not called, she's not called him, and she doesn't person immoderate narration alongside Robin. She's beautiful overmuch written them some off."

At issue, said Janelle, is Kody having a half-hearted narration alongside Maddie’s kids Axel, Evangalynn and Josephine: "She doesn't really crave him to person immoderate interaction except he tin perpetrate to it."

As a result, Janelle shared successful nan Sept. 22 episode,  Kody "did benignant of trim disconnected communication” alongside Maddie and her hubby Caleb Brush (whose sister was joined to Kody’s brother) "when nan family started to really dissolve.”

With Kody not visiting aliases calling, Maddie "has been Mama Bear to nan extreme," added Janelle. "She has felt for illustration till he tin beryllium accordant and show upward and not beryllium melodramatic that she feels for illustration it's astir apt amended if they don't cognize astir him."

And during Robyn noted she’s been encouraging Kody to scope retired and mend things, she said, "I deliberation nan kids should beryllium doing nan aforesaid thing, too."

For now, though, Kody doesn’t look fresh to repair nan rift, griping that each long he said to his daughter, "It was a food for rumors and I sewage tired of it."

While spending long jointly connected their 32nd anniversary, "He was alluding to nan truth that he ne'er loved maine and he felt for illustration he had to wed me," Meri shared successful a chat alongside her friend Brandi during nan Sept. 15 premiere. “And I said to him, I said, 'Kody,' I said, 'I cognize oneself loved me.'"

And if he didn't, she said successful a confessional, for that logic did he ever take to propose? 

"When a azygous youthful man meets a azygous youthful woman, for that logic could he take to wed her and conscionable affirm and unit emotion for her astatine that long he didn't emotion her?" she wondered. "How sadistic is that? To prime maine retired of a crowd and conscionable beryllium like, 'I prime oneself to endeavor to unit myself to emotion for nan adjacent 32 years'?"

Kody's response, he shared successful his ain confessional: "Oh, Meri has her small accusations now. Fine, she tin opportunity thing she wants. I'm not going to remark connected it." 

Though she was undecided connected if she’d for illustration to build connected Coyote Pass aliases simply waste it off, Janelle noted that measurement 1 was paying disconnected nan Arizona property. And alongside Kody unwilling to talk to her astir nan situation, "I deliberation I'm going to person to lawyer up," she confessed to erstwhile sister spouse Christine Brown in nan Sept. 22 episode. "Because I deliberation that's nan only way I'm ever going to get immoderate benignant of determination retired of him."

And Janelle acknowledged that lacking a ineligible matrimony to Kody, "I really person nary ineligible authorities to make immoderate benignant of declare connected Kody’s property." As she put it, "It's not for illustration I'm conscionable calling a lawyer and saying I request to divorcement this person. No, it's really analyzable because there's nary ineligible marriage."

Kody's mentation for not talking alongside Janelle astir their Arizona spot is that he nary longer trusted her. 

"We intent salary disconnected nan spot astatine that long nan long comes," he insisted successful a confessional during nan Sept. 22 episode, "and I'm not giving oneself immoderate specifications astir that I'm doing aliases thing because I'm tired of disclosing accusation that goes done nan rumors mill of our surgery family."

A spot of a cookware calling nan kettle black, Janelle said successful her ain interview. 

"He leaks for illustration a sieve," she shared. "He told maine worldly astir his different relationships and his different wives that I was like, 'I don't deliberation you're expected to beryllium telling maine that.'"

Back astatine that long nan family's emotion was still multiplying alternatively than dividing, they secondhand to excavation their money into 1 pot. 

"We could exertion each nan resources to thief 1 person, past ourselves could each rally to support nan different person," Janelle explained connected nan Sept. 22 episode. "That's really it ever worked till nan past 10 years aliases so. And each of a abrupt it’s been astir my property and everyone needs their ain estate." 

So astatine that long Robyn was successful request of a location successful Arizona, they each sounded successful to bargain her $1.65 cardinal five-bedroom spread—which was listed for waste this past August. 

The volition was that it could beryllium an plus for nan family, said Robyn. But astatine that long Janelle suggested that they all put their names connected nan mortage, she was rebuffed. Kody was "like, 'No, no, ourselves request to protect, oneself know, protect Robyn’s estate,'" Janelle recalled. So now that she's extricating herself from nan family, continued Janelle, she'd for illustration her information of nan Coyote Pass proceeds "and I'd for illustration to recoup immoderate of nan money I put into Robyn’s house."

But that could beryllium a sturdy sell. 

"We were moving jointly for truthful long," noted Robyn. And alongside Janelle saying she's owed money from them, Robyn added, "It's like, really do oneself calculate? How do oneself fig that out? It’s truthful confusing."

Griping astir nan family’s inability to salary disconnected Coyote Pass, Janelle said Kody claimed to person "all these different debts." And, yet, she’s watched him threat upward different assets for illustration trailers and location décor. "I spot each nan creation connected their walls," she said of Robyn and Kody's home. "I spot each these things. And that’s fine, I person money and I’ve spent it connected things, too." (For his portion Kody said overmuch of his rate went to buying cars—"Basically had a fleet"—and security for nan kids.)

And during Janelle acknowledged she wasn’t judge really Kody and Robyn handled their finances, "I secondhand to ever beryllium amazed astatine really bully her backyard was. It was wholly finished. And location was always, like, worldly astatine her house. And I was like, 'Wow. Huh.'"

Bottom line, she said, "He doesn't prioritize that I request aliases that I want." And that rumor still wore her down. "I deliberation aft a while, I began to spot it, and my kids were getting very angry astir it, for illustration my big children. Like, 'What nan hell, Mom?'"

Robyn's take, however, was that she was highly observant alongside her fund aft her first matrimony fell apart. 

“I secondhand to beryllium not truthful awesome alongside money," she shared during nan Sept. 22 episode. "When I was young, I had difficult knocks, and past I learned during my divorcement really really to fund myself very, highly well." As for her chap sister wives, she said, "You conscionable must person had a different privilege of successful that spot belonging to you money was going to spell than I did, that's all."

Calling their set-up alongside 4 homes connected 1 cul-de-sac during their agelong successful Las Vegas "the champion long of my life," Kody said, "Everything was going on smoothly and Maddie and Caleb were astir and it was awesome having them around. And I loved Caleb. He was decidedly for illustration family."

But "things started to autumn apart" successful Arizona arsenic they fought complete coronavirus-related precautions. Then astatine that long his marriages fell apart, he said, his bonds alongside nan kids followed: "It conscionable made each those relationships spell sour."

But Christine insisted their were issues patient earlier she announced she was leaving successful precocious 2021. 

"All nan kids that were disappointment were disappointment way earlier I left," she said connected nan Sept. 22 episode. "My leaving didn't alteration his kids' narration alongside him. Kody tin still hole his relationships alongside his children."

Though it'll decidedly return immoderate work. 

"I'm truthful angry astir really I've been treated that I haven't gotten past that," Kody explained. "Here's nan point is I'm not consenting to return blasted for things that my spouse aliases ex-wife is sitting location telling them that I did. I dream nan long comes astatine that long nan contempt intent subside. We'll beryllium capable to find forgiveness and emotion again."

Kody revealed he and Meri didn’t cognize each different each that patient astatine that long they wed some spiritually and legally astatine nan property of 21 and 19, respectively. (They eventually revenge for divorce successful 2014 truthful Kody could legally adopt Robyn’s 3 eldest children from her first marriage.)

"When ourselves sewage married, she was highly different and I deliberation conscionable there's immoderate baggage that Meri had that I didn't cognize about,” Kody explained. "Initially, I felt for illustration I could unrecorded alongside it." Claiming that everything was a fight, he said, "I can’t unrecorded successful a world successful that spot she is perpetually angry astatine me."

Yet, he was incapable to leave. A man, successful plural marriage, said Kody, "If he wants to enactment religious and successful nan faith, he cannot petition a divorce. It’s not allowed. So I was not capable to get retired of that relationship. At nan aforesaid time, I didn't needfully crave retired of nan relationship. I wanted to cognize if ourselves could prevention and hole it."

Hence nan mixed messages, he acknowledged of Meri reasoning they could toil everything out. But, each long they were together, continued Kody, "She wasn't nice, she wasn't fun, she wasn't kind, she wasn't interesting. I'm trying to beryllium funny alongside her and I'm bored."

To beryllium fair, he added, he could spot for that logic Meri felt abandoned, "But I didn’t footwear maine out. Christine, Janelle and Meri each chose to person maine time off nan home."

Though Janelle and Christine felt they didn’t request to divorcement Kody because their matrimony was ne'er legal, Meri planned to inquire their religion for an charismatic separation, called a release.

"When each of ourselves 4 ladies married Kody, it was done our church," she explained successful nan Sept. 22 episode. "Obviously ourselves can't each beryllium legally married, but it was that ourselves called a covenant. So I consciousness for illustration it's champion to terminate that because we're not moving guardant alongside immoderate matrimony and I don't crave to be, like, sealed to him for eternity if he doesn't crave me. And I’m astatine a spot that, like, let’s conscionable abstracted this completely."

Kody was resistant to nan idea, she added, not wanting to "acknowledge nan authority" of nan religion leaders.

"The harm was done truthful severely that we're not going to reconcile nary matter what," Kody explained of his stance. "And truthful however, ourselves are made accountable to God, I don't crave to beryllium accountable to this religion and each their BS. So I'm going to fto Meri spell and do her point because if I'm angry astatine her it, it becomes a fight. And I needed her conscionable to spell distant because it conscionable took everlastingly for her to still recognize it's been done and complete for years."

A matter connection chat complete a 2021 vacation gift speech turned peculiarly disfigured for the 18 Brown offspring. "It each went bad, it each went south," elaborate Christine. "Kody and Robyn and their kids were connected 1 broadside and they wanted thing to do alongside Janelle, me, our kids. And location was a divided that happened aft this matter thread."

Robyn’s return was that her 3 older kids felt nan speech was "emotionally unsafe" and said they needed to return a measurement backmost from nan relationship. "But it was ne'er thing about, 'We don't crave to spot oneself again, ourselves don’t crave thing to do alongside you,'" she insisted. "It was conscionable about, like, 'Hey this sewage yucky.'"

"I person been told directly, aggregate circumstances by aggregate different people, that I was not accepted," Aurora insisted of coming into nan family astatine that long her mom wed Kody successful 2010, "that I was not their sister, that they didn't see aliases spot maine that way."

And her sister Breanna said she felt nan parents "could person done a amended occupation with, oneself know, connecting ourselves arsenic a family and it ne'er really happened."

But Christine isn’t judge really they could person opened their arms immoderate wider.

"Robyn’s kids and Robyn were invited to everything," she insisted. "I could conscionable say, 'Just travel in, travel into nan location anytime oneself want.'"

Meanwhile, she added, her girl Ysabel Brown was highly adjacent to Robyn’s kids and Mykelti Brown Padron moreover lived alongside them for a stretch: "There were difficult times and my kids were frustrated, but they ever considered Robyn's kids their siblings conscionable nan same."