On Sunday’s episode of Sister Wives, viewers will get to see Kody Brown do the unthinkable: apologize and take accountability for (some of) his actions. 

In a clip from the upcoming episode posted by Parade, Kody reflects on his splits from ex-wives Christine, Janelle and Meri Brown before admitting to wife Robyn Brown that he didn’t handle his trio of divorces as well as he could have. 

As fans of ‘Sister Wives’ know, Christine, Janelle and Meri ended their unions with Kody in 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively, leaving Robyn as the only Mrs. Brown standing. While Kody has since insisted (more than once) on the TLC series that he never loved his first three wives, the father of 18 is finally admitting that his attempt to rewrite history was coming from a place of anger rather than honesty. 

“Plural marriage is hard,” Kody says in the clip from Sunday’s episode. “I thought from my myopic perspective it was just hard on me, but I failed to recognize what a struggle this would be for my wives. I’m trying to move on, but I’m kind of arrogant and cocky about how I do it in order to fight the emotions. 

“Like all that s**t I said about not loving my wives and stuff, my exes, was just like, me trying to dial in how I felt about it,” he continued. 

Kody goes on to claim that the unkind words he said about his former spouses were only a defense mechanism, admitting to viewers, “I was bulls**tting myself.” 

“I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m not affected by this. Those mean women, they’re gone. I never loved them anyway.’ I mean, this is really the crap I was spewing because that was [the] only defense I had,” he explained. “Divorce just does that to you.” 

As fans have seen throughout Season 18 and Season 19 of ‘Sister Wives,’ Kody’s multiple divorces also left him angry– an ongoing issue that Robyn confronts her husband about on Sunday’s episode. 

“I think the biggest thing is whether or not you’re able to process through it enough that you can be yourself again, because you’ve been very, very angry, and I understand this,” Robyn says, to which Kody– surprisingly– apologizes, while acknowledging that he’s “been in a bad place.” 

“I’m sorry to you,” Kody says to Robyn, before adding, “I’m sorry to them.”

Despite the better-late-than-never apology Kody is set to deliver on Sunday’s episode, it’s worth noting that the former husband-of-four spent the first half of Season 19 making multiple disparaging remarks about his first three marriages, even describing them as “f**k and fight”-style relationships that didn’t provide “intimacy,” only orgasms. 

Kody served up this massive helping of TMI on an episode of ‘Sister Wives’ that aired back in October, during which fans watched as Kody sat down with Meri for the first time in Season 19 to reflect on their often-strained marriage. While Meri didn’t call it quits with Kody until after Christine and Janelle, Kody told viewers that his and Meri’s union was the worst of the three, though he insisted that all of his former marriages were “bad” when compared to the “normal relationship” he has with Robyn. 

“ … You don’t know you’re in a bad relationship, you just think you’re in a normal relationship because all your friends have the same problem,” Kody said. “Until you’re in a normal relationship that has deep emotional intimacy instead of the [butting heads].

“Some people call it F&F,” he continued. “And the second word is ‘fight.’ Or F&F and the first word is ‘fight.’ That doesn’t create intimacy, that just creates orgasms.” 

New episodes of ‘Sister Wives’ air Sundays on TLC. 

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