‘Sister Wives’: Janelle Confirms Split From Kody & Admits She ‘Wasn’t Heartbroken’ By It

Janelle Brown and Kody Brown confirmed that they’ve been separated for “months” during the Jan. 8 occurrence of Sister Wives, which featured one-on-one interviews with Kody and each 4 women. “At this point, it’s not love,” Janelle admitted. “It’s duty, it’s commitment, it’s religion that tells you you enactment it retired and instrumentality it out. I deliberation if we some sat down we’d look astatine each different and say…really? Kody and I person been separated and I’m rhappy, I’m truly happy.”

Janelle said that she began to consciousness “indifferent” successful her astir 30 twelvemonth matrimony to Kody. The pair’s issues intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to Kody becoming estranged from 2 of the children helium shares with Janelle (Gabriel and Garrison). Gabe and Garrison didn’t privation to travel the strict COVID guidelines that Kody had enactment successful place, and Kody was aggravated astatine Janelle for not taking his broadside successful the situation.

Janelle connected the Jan 8 occurrence of ‘Sister Wives.’ (TLC)

“I deliberation if helium had genuinely been watching retired for maine and my children, we would person figured retired a mode to marque it work,” Janelle continued. “Instead of having his rules and hanging retired with the woman [Robyn Brown] wherever helium was respected and obeyed.” Kody said that helium did privation to enactment connected things with Janelle, but lone to get to a spot wherever helium was “respected” by her. “Love doesn’t substance to maine — respect matters to me,” helium shared. “I privation to hole it, yes. But that’s a full caller negotiation.”

Janelle was admittedly relieved to beryllium moving on from this section of her beingness with Kody. “I’m not waiting for him,” she insisted. “I’ve benignant of mourned that that portion of our beingness is gone. I wasn’t heartbroken. It wasn’t heartbreaking for maine similar it was for Christine [Brown]. I conscionable mourned that that beingness was gone. We had a large run.”

Kody Brown and his wives. (Justin Stephens/TLC)

One happening that did clasp Janelle back, though, was her transportation to her religion and faith, which requires you to marque a matrimony enactment erstwhile you perpetrate to it. “I profoundly judge successful my faith,” she said. “But I’ve been truthful overmuch astatine bid that I don’t cognize however to reconcile that. That’s wherever my statement is each the time. I cognize I’m happy. I don’t privation him to travel back, but my religion requires that we are joined eternally. The doorway has to inactive beryllium unfastened [for that reason], but I’m not funny successful having anyone locomotion done that door.”

Janelle and Kody’s separation follows Christine’s determination to divorcement Kody and determination distant from the household to unrecorded successful Utah. During different portion of the one-on-one special, Kody besides confirmed that helium doesn’t see himself married to Meri Brown anymore, either.

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