Sister Wives’ Christine Brown Talks Coparenting With Kody Brown

Virtually on the identical web page. Christine Brown opened up concerning the final time she noticed her ex-husband Kody Brown — and the way the 2 are tackling coparenting whereas dwelling states aside.

“So, I haven’t talked to him in particular person for some time,” the Sister Wives star, 50, completely instructed Us Weekly throughout an interview on Tuesday, October 18. “All I’ve seen are the episodes, for some time, and what I’ve heard from like Janelle [Brown] who nonetheless speaks with him and stuff too. … I believe he’s simply so harm nonetheless and simply processing it loads slower.”

Christine introduced her cut up from Kody, 53, in November 2021, and returned dwelling to Utah whereas her ex remained in Arizona. Kody has three wives: Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Robyn Brown. The Wyoming native was legally married to Meri, 51, from 1990 to 2014, and the twosome are nonetheless spiritually married. Janelle, 53, the Wyoming native are additionally spiritually married. Kody legally married Robyn, 44, in 2014, so he may legally undertake her kids from a earlier union.

Christine and Kody, who spiritually wed in 1994, share six kids: son Paedon, 23, and daughters Aspyn, 27, Mykelti, 26, Gwendlyn, 20, Ysabel, 19 and Truely, 12. The pair’s ups and downs have been documented on the seventeenth season of the TLC actuality present, which premiered in September 2010.

Christine revealed to Us that she started to understand she would go away Kody in “the final yr for positive,” noting that the pair had a number of conversations concerning the matter and that her kids “may inform one thing was fallacious.”

“I left earlier than we bought too indignant and we had been combating, I left earlier than that time,” she confessed. “I didn’t need that to be a part of it and if I’d left him earlier than, perhaps I might’ve left in anger an excessive amount of too. So, I didn’t need to go away in anger.”

Whereas the mother and father do “talk backwards and forwards” about their kids and organize visits for Kody to see his youngest daughter, Christine shared that she doesn’t “suppose it’s coparenting fairly but.”

Christine shared that issues stay tense between herself and Kody, however the pair do communicate on the cellphone to provide temporary updates about their kids — like how their 12-year-old daughter Truely received Scholar of the Month at her faculty.

“So, I referred to as him and instructed him. I despatched him an image and instructed him that she received Scholar of the Month,” the fact star instructed Us. “So he referred to as her and congratulated her.”

Truely, for her half, discovered about her mother and father’ separation by overhearing a dialog, with Christine telling Us that she “was extra devastated” about how her daughter realized the information.

“So, I simply instructed Truely we had been already divorced as a result of I didn’t need her to be strung alongside and suppose that perhaps we’d get again collectively once more and [for] her to fret about are we going to be combating round her,” the fact television star defined. “Trigger that was her largest concern afterwards, she’s like, ‘Are you guys gonna be combating after?’ And I’m like, ‘No, we’re simply not going to, I’m not that particular person. I’m not gonna sit there and combat.’”

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

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi