Maddie Sister Wives ‘No Contact’ With Father Kody Brown

Maddie Brown opens up about boundaries with family members and why he “has no contact with some” – including his father, Kody Brown.

“It’s because of what happened,” Maddie, 29, shared on the Monday, November 11, episode of “The Authentic Society” podcast, adding that her estranged father, 55, “doesn’t respect boundaries, and you have to play by the rules.” , and I just don’t care to do that.

He continued, “My father would be very angry if I – I’m a straight shooter. You ask me a question, I’m going to tell you what I think. And he would be very angry when I said, ‘I don’t know why you’re surprised here.’ And that’s one of the reasons I don’t have contact because like, he doesn’t like the mirror being held up.

Mother of Kody and Maddie, Janelle Brownsplit in 2022 after almost 30 years together.

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The pregnant mother of three – who shares her son Axel, 7, and daughters Evie, 5, and Josephine, 1, with her husband Caleb’s brush – previously said during an appearance on the podcast “Slightly Basic” in 2023 that the children also do not have a relationship with their father, and will not “know him” if they see him.

“I always get messages from people like, ‘You need to forgive and respect your father,'” Maddie explained. “And I was like, ‘I don’t think you know what you’re talking about because your experience with your father could be very different from my experience with my father.'”

Maddie is one of six children Kody shares with ex Janelle, 55. The former couple also share sons Logan, 30, Hunter, 27, and Gabriel, 22, and daughter Savanah, 19. They also share son Garrison, who died of died in March. He is 25 years old.

During the episode of Sister Wife which aired in October last year, Kody touched on Maddie cutting off contact with him when he broke up with his ex in November 2021. Christine Brown. The exes were together for 25 years and also share six children together.

“I don’t know what happened. But when we broke up with Christine, Maddie stopped reaching out to me,” Kody said. “Maybe it was COVID or I don’t know what happened, but she stopped reaching out to me.”

But Janelle disagrees with her eldest son’s reasons for not talking to Kody.

“Maddie hasn’t called him out on his behavior lately,” Janelle said in the confessional, which was taped in spring 2022. “She was like, ‘I don’t know what to do with him. I don’t know who this guy is.’ He needs to consider his children. He needs to consider what stability he sees or feels as a grandfather. It’s not just Maddie who’s calling him.

When TLC viewers first met the Brown family on the show’s network debut in 2010, Kody was married to Janelle, Christine and his first wife. Meri Brown. Robyn Brownwho he loved at the time, eventually became his fourth wife after getting married in December 2014.

After breaking up with Christine and Janelle in 2021 and 2022, Kody and Meri confirmed their separation in January 2023 after more than 30 years together. They have one child, Leon.

Robyn, 46, is Kody’s remaining wife. Together they share five children, including three from Robyn’s previous relationship.