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Maddie Brown is opening up about her boundaries with members of the family and why she has “no contact with some” of them – together with her dad, Kody Brown.
“It’s due to stuff that has occurred,” Maddie, 29, shared on the Monday, November 11, episode of her “The Genuine Society” podcast, later including of her estranged father, 55, “doesn’t have any respect for boundaries, and you must play by his guidelines, and I simply don’t care to try this.”
She continued, “My dad would get very offended after I would — I’m a straight shooter. You ask me a query, I’m going to let you know what I believe. And he would get very offended after I can be like, ‘I don’t know why you’re shocked right here.’ And in order that was one of many causes that I went no contact as a result of it was like, he didn’t like a mirror being held up.”
Kody and Maddie’s mother, Janelle Brown, break up in 2022 after practically 30 years collectively.
Sister Wives‘ Janelle Brown and Kody Brown’s plural marriage was something however standard forward of their 2022 break up. Janelle and Kody’s lives have been intertwined properly earlier than they spiritually tied the knot in 1993. Janelle’s late mother, Sheryl Brown, and Kody’s dad, William Winn Brown, have been married for years earlier than William’s dying in 2013, making the eventual […]
The pregnant mother of three – who shares son Axel, 7, and daughters Evie, 5, and Josephine, 1, with husband Caleb Brush – beforehand stated throughout a 2023 look on the “Considerably Fundamental” podcast that her youngsters additionally don’t have a relationship along with her dad both, and wouldn’t “acknowledge him” in the event that they noticed him.
“I at all times get messages from people who find themselves like, ‘You need to simply forgive your dad and respect him,’” Maddie defined. “And I’m like, ‘I don’t suppose you recognize what you’re speaking about as a result of your expertise together with your dad might be very completely different than my expertise with my dad.’”
Maddie and Janelle Brown Courtesy of Janelle Brown/Instagram
Maddie is certainly one of six youngsters Kody shares with ex Janelle, 55. The previous couple additionally share sons Logan, 30, Hunter, 27, and Gabriel, 22, and daughter Savanah, 19. Additionally they share son Garrison, who died by suicide in March. He was 25.
Throughout an episode of Sister Wives that aired in October final 12 months, Kody touched upon Maddie reducing off contact with him amid his November 2021 break up with ex Christine Brown. The exes have been collectively for 25 years and likewise share six youngsters collectively.
“I have no idea what occurred. However in the course of the breakup with Christine, Maddie stopped reaching out to me,” Kody stated. “May need been COVID or I do not know what was happening, however she stop reaching out to me.”
Janelle, nevertheless, had a distinct tackle why her eldest daughter stopped speaking to Kody.
“Maddie doesn’t name him due to his conduct, currently,” Janelle alleged in a confessional, which was taped in spring 2022. “She’s like, ‘I don’t know what to do with him. I don’t know who this man is.’ She has to think about her youngsters. She has to think about the steadiness of what they see or understand as a grandfather. There’s lots of issues at play right here. It’s not simply Maddie not calling him.”
When TLC viewers first met the Brown household amid the present’s community debut in 2010, Kody was married to Janelle, Christine and first spouse Meri Brown. Robyn Brown, whom he was courting on the time, finally grew to become his fourth spouse after they tied the knot in December 2014.
After his breakups with Christine and Janelle in 2021 and 2022, respectively, Kody and Meri confirmed they went their separate methods in January 2023 after greater than 30 years collectively. They share one youngster, Leon.
Robyn, 46, is Kody’s solely remaining spouse. Collectively they share 5 youngsters, together with three from Robyn’s earlier relationship.