Sister Wives Recap: Janelle Talks Kody’s ‘Cycle of Love Bombing’

Sister Wives star Janelle Brown hinted that her ex-husband, Kody Brown, is a “narcissist” following their December 2022 break up.

“I do suppose that there was a cycle of affection bombing after which, like, nearly sort of, like, a wind down,” Janelle, 56, claimed of her and Kody’s relationship throughout half 3 of the Sister Wives: One-on-One particular, which aired on Sunday, June 8.

Host Sukanya Krishnan confessed, “I’m making an attempt to determine what the love bomb is,” which is when Janelle insinuated that Kody, 56, employed the manipulative tactic typically utilized by narcissists on her all through their practically 30-year marriage. (Love bombing is described as a “type of psychological and emotional abuse typically disguised as extreme flattery,” in line with Cleveland Clinic.)

“For a narcissist, there’s a cycle the place you’re keen on bomb and then you definitely type of, there’s type of a waning and then you definitely nearly sort of, like, destroy or harm them after which to repair it, you come again in and you’re keen on bomb,” Janelle defined. “And so, there was sort of this cycle.”

Krishnan tried to make clear Janelle’s feedback, asking, “[You] use the phrase narcissist. Are you saying Kody’s a narcissist?”

Janelle rapidly replied, “No, as a result of I’m not — I’m not certified to diagnose him. I assume all people should resolve.”

She confessed, “I’m not a psychologist. I’m not a psychiatrist. I learn popular culture. I don’t know.” Nonetheless, Janelle revealed, “Nevertheless it does seem to be there’s various similarities.”

Janelle’s feedback about Kody got here after the truth stars shared their very own accounts of who dealt with the cash for his or her plural household on the tell-all. Kody insisted that Janelle had “an excessive amount of affect on our cash,” whereas she claimed she was merely the bookkeeper.

Janelle, who welcomed six kids with Kody earlier than their break up, recalled seeing the cash come and go for the household, however not being answerable for who bought what. She alleged that Kody was the one calling all of the pictures. (Janelle and Kody’s son Garrison died by suicide in March 2024 at age 25.)

“He all the time appears to return out forward financially on a deal,” Janelle mentioned on Sunday. “I simply suppose he’s all the time searching for himself and now for [fourth wife] Robyn [Brown] and himself.”

She alleged, “He simply all the time by some means thinks he’s by some means entitled to extra. It’s astounding. I feel he actually is simply sort of inherently egocentric.”

Christine Brown, who left Kody in 2021, backed up Janelle’s claims throughout the episode as nicely. “We by no means knew what the opposite wives have been getting cash sensible. We simply understood what we had. However Janelle noticed all of it,” Christine, 53, shared. “And Janelle doesn’t say a lot and he or she’s very tight-lipped.”

Christine, nonetheless, recalled Janelle allegedly telling her, “‘I noticed the place all the cash was going. And the way a lot cash Kody took and the way a lot cash Robyn took was much more than you have been taking, and it was greater than anyone else was taking.’”

Christine, who has remained near Janelle since their respective splits from Kody, claimed that Kody was “very grasping when it comes right down to cash.” She alleged, “He takes care of himself. He sees what he must do, and he simply does what is correct for him and what’s proper for Robyn.”

Along with Janelle and Christine, Kody was married to Meri Brown for 30 years earlier than they parted methods in January 2023. He has been legally married to Robyn, 46, since 2014, 4 years after she initially joined their plural household.

Half 4 of the Sister Wives: One-on-One particular airs on TLC Sunday, June 15, at 10 p.m. ET.