Sister Wives’ Janelle Brown awkwardly confronted Meri Brown about protecting her finances from their mutual ex Kody Brown and his wife Robyn Brown on the Nov. 10 episode.
Things got uncomfortable to say the least when Kody Brown’s exes Janelle Brown and Meri Brown came face-to-face on the Nov. 10 episode of Sister Wives.
Amid her ongoing drama with Kody—and his only remaining wife Robyn Brown—over the family’s Coyote Pass property, Janelle felt it was her duty to inform Meri about the financial implications of Kody’s refusal to pay off the property.
“If we don’t make it, he can repossess the whole thing,” Janelle, who split from Kody in 2022 after 30 years of spiritual marriage, warned Meri of the 75-day deadline. “We will lose it.”
And though Meri, who ended her own estranged relationship with Kody that same year, assured Janelle, “I’m not worried about that,” it prompted Janelle to come to a new realization. Specifically, in the way she sees herself as being perceived in the estranged blended family.
“I am beginning to realize that Kody has been telling everybody that I am somehow controlling the [family’s] money,” Janelle said in her confessional. “And trust me, if I really was, we would be in a very different position.”
In fact, Meri even seemed to confirm Janelle’s suspicion. “I’ve have been under the impression for many, many years,” she told Janelle, “that you’re the one who’s been taking care of all the family finances.”
Janelle then said that Kody—who also split from ex Christine Brown in 2021—has been “putting me off” for years when it comes to paying off Coyote Pass, claiming he “doesn’t have the money.”
TLCAnd she doesn’t think that was necessarily the case. “Well, there was always money,” Janelle told Meri, “if we prioritized it.”
However, though Janelle is concerned about Meri’s financial interests, Meri doesn’t seem to be worried about Kody and Robyn’s trustworthiness.
TLC“I don’t think that there’s really any need for protection,” Meri told Janelle. “Don’t you think that we have each other’s backs as far as that goes?”
But Janelle disagreed, saying, “No, I really don’t.”
And though Janelle emphasized she’d have Meri’s back, Kody’s first wife doesn’t think she’s in any danger when it comes to her ex and Robyn. Indeed, she’d rather just stay out of the rising drama altogether.
“I feel like everybody in the family has a different opinion about the other person, about what has been happening with the finances,” Meri said in her confessional interview. “And I don’t know which of it is true. I’m not going to take sides. I’m not going to be in the ex wives club. I’m not in the Kody and Robyn club.”
The “very awkward” conversation doesn’t end with any resolution for Janelle as she tells Meri, “I feel like I better protect myself,” to which Meri simply laments, “Sorry that you feel like that.”
