‘Sister Wives’ Recap: Kody Brown Says Christine Is Doing the Family a ‘Favor’ by Leaving After ‘Helping’ Him Fix Their ‘Mess’

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Taking his jabs. Kody Brown didn’t hold back about his true feelings toward Christine Brown after she revealed on the latest episode of Sister Wives that she was moving in one week.“I thank you for coming into the family and helping me sort of gather up this mess that I was in,” Kody, 53, told Christine, 50, during the Sunday, November 13, episode of the TLC series, while sitting alongside the rest of his wives: Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Robyn Brown.Meri, however, didn’t appreciate her spouse’s comments, as she felt they were a dig at her and Janelle’s dynamic as sister wives before Christine joined the family in 1994.

Meri, 51, married Kody in 1990, and he spiritually wed Janelle, 53, three years later.Robyn joined the group in 2010. Four years later, she legally married Kody following his divorce from Meri.

Kody is still spiritually married to his first wife. (The legal union made it possible for the Wyoming native to adopt Robyn’s three children from her first marriage.)“It stings when he says that because it’s directed at me, probably,” Meri explained on the episode. “When Janelle came into the family, I was jealous.

I was young. I was not yet fully mature. We just — we’re dealing with a lot of new situations. He’s like, ‘Oh, let’s get Christine to come and save the day.’ That stings.”Kody claimed during that group’s conversation that Christine was never there for the family. “She quit loving me years ago.