Mykelti Brown says her estranged father Kody has tried to get back into her good graces over the past year or so, but the Sister Wives star insists that she won’t allow it until he tries to make amends with the rest of her siblings.
“My dad has reached out multiple times,” Mykelti said during a recent interview with the Pop Psych YouTube show. “He reached out before he left [to film Special Forces]. Every time we’ve communicated, he’s reached out and he’s the one extending the foot but it’s hard because, with me, I’m a package deal. You’ve got to treat my whole family nice; you’ve got to treat my kids nice. You’ve got to talk to all of us. You can’t just have me. You have to have all of us.”
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As ‘Sister Wives’ fans are aware, Kody is estranged from Mykelti and nearly all of the rest of his other children with his three ex-wives Meri, Janelle and Christine. For a long time, Mykelti— whose mother is Christine– was one of only a few of Kody’s kids who continued to have a relationship with him and his wife Robyn. However, last year, Mykelti revealed that her relationship with Kody and Robyn had eventually soured, too.
In her interview with Pop Psych, Mykelti said she wants her dad to not only try to repair his relationship with her, but also with her sisters and brothers that he no longer bothers with.
“I want him to be nice to Ysabel. I want him to be nice to Savanah,” Mykelti said. “I want him to talk to Truly and hang out with her and go visit her.”
(Truly—who is the only minor child Kody shares with any of his ex-wives— lives with her mom Christine in Utah, while Kody resides in Arizona. Still, Kody is supposed to be having visits with Truly.)
“I want him to do all of this, and so if he calls me up, and he talks to me or I have a relationship with him, I’m gonna ask him, ‘Hey what’s going on with you and Truly?’ ‘Hey what’s going on with you and Ysabel?’ ‘What’s going on with you and Savanah?'”
Mykelti stated that Kody will try to just work on his relationship with her, but she will shut it down.
“He’s going to be like, ‘I want to have a relationship with you right now. My relationship with them is separate. My relationship with you is with you,'” she said. “That’s kind of where he’s at. He wants to figure out each relationship individually as they go. And I want to be like, ‘Why can’t we all just get together, be happy and love each other?”
Mykelti is certainly not the first member of Kody’s family to speak out about how poorly he’s treated some of his kids. In September, his ex-wife Meri stated that she is sad to see how Kody acts as a parent today compared to how he once was with his kids.
“The way that he parents breaks my heart,” she said. “It really does…He’s got children who need him and want to have a relationship with him and he’s not putting in the effort. I don’t see [it]. I can’t say he’s not, but I don’t see effort being put in where some of his kids really need it.”
That same month, Christine also said that she will not accept an apology from Kody until he makes up with his kids.
“When he fixes his relationship with his kids, that’s when I’ll accept the apology,” Christine stated at the time. “Like, take care of your kids, reach out to your kids, call them, spend time with them and work on that relationship and then at that point we can talk apology.
“It’s an action that should happen, not just words,” she continued. “Words don’t mean a thing, it’s just words.”
You can watch Mykelti’s full interview with Pop Psych below.
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I think Mykelti and Amy Duggar should be bffs. They can get paid together while talking about their family non-stop for money.
This family was all about his image. They were a prop.. I love Janelle and a lot of these kids but if you think God believes you should marry multiple women then I think the God you’re worshiping is some sort of alien cause this is dumb. And the story of Joseph smith or whoever finding this Bible or tablet sounds like an alien if you believe him at all. The whole thing sounds fishy and people that believe this are suspect immediately sorry I don’t like Catholics either
For the life of me I cannot understand women choosing to be the so called spiritual wives of one man and having all those children but then that was their choice. People choose to follow religions the world wide and it is not up to us to like or dislike their choices. I for one was a catholic at one time but chose to leave the church in my early 20’s. I do not follow any organized religion to this day and it is not due to the catholic church. I worship God in my own way and it works for me. For you to say someone’s beliefs are dumb is not for you to call. I do believe the Brown family made the choice to put their family on TV for financial gain..not for Kody’s reasons…”love should be multiplied, not divided” as he certainly did choose to abandon 3 women and their children for one wife. People choose religious beliefs for reasons but mostly because that was how they were raised. Some of us move on. Tell me, why don’t you like catholics?
This one’s complicated. On one hand, Mykelti’s heart is in the right place regarding her loyalty to her siblings. On the other hand, Kody is showing more effort than he ever has and he isn’t going to live forever. Sadly, it seems like nobody in the family learned any lessons at all from Garrison’s passing.
It’s not that complicated. He’s showing “more” effort with her because, in his mind, she is the one who requires the least effort. The one who maintained a relationship with him the longest. The one who didn’t hold him accountable. So, he’s trying to make inroads with what he sees as the low hanging fruit. He can then pat himself on the back for making amends with one of his kids and then blame the others for being more difficult.
Garrison’s death seems to be what finally allowed Mykelti to see her dad for what he is.
Is he on good terms with any of his kids from the first 3 wives? I know it’s bad with most, but I’m just curious.
Mykelti was a giver for a long time and Kody and Robin are takers.
Her siblings want things from Kody, like attention, time, love and explanations plus apologies.
I’m glad Mykelti is finally not accepting crumbs anymore either. Good for her.
She did grow up with more siblings, I’m puzzled why she only speaks of her 100% biological sisters.
I think she was using examples without going into all of them.
Savannah mother is Janelle not Christine.
He needs to apologize for a lot of things to a lot of people. Especially when he “dances”?! Thanks TLC for making us watch it again. What the flippiity flip was that?! Is that how someone jigs on meth?!
He must have learned to dance from Elaine on Seinfeld. It looks a lot like that!