Janelle Brown had a meeting of the “ex-wives club” with Meri Brown on the latest episode of Sister Wives where they took jabs at ex-husband Kody Brown and his “type.”
During the Sunday, October 5, episode of the TLC series, Janelle, 56, called Meri, 54, to discuss the selling of their Coyote Pass property, claiming Kody, 56, didn’t want to phone Meri himself.
“Why is he afraid to talk to me?” Meri asked over Zoom, calling it “chicken s***” that her former husband of more than 30 years couldn’t pick up the phone himself. (Meri and Kody announced their split in January 2023 after getting married in 1990.)
Kody later told the cameras, “Meri and Janelle, I completely upset them. Not on purpose, OK? Like I completely upset them because I didn’t know what to do.”
He confessed, “Meri, she’s kind of a nag, so I was like, ‘Oh, ignore her.’ Then she’s like, ‘Well, I’m going to do legal [proceedings then]’ and I’m like, ‘Well, well, well, OK, listen, we’re going to sell the property. You guys will all get your 25 percent. Why did everybody get so upset?’ Well, it’s because I wasn’t talking to them.”
Meri noted that Kody was being “so dumb” about the conversation, while Janelle claimed that he “always wants to act like he’s such a victim.” (Janelle confirmed her separation from Kody in December 2022 after nearly 30 years of marriage.)
“And he has this shy, pretty wife now and she’s really shy and she’s really pretty,” Janelle quipped, referring to Kody’s remaining wife, Robyn Brown. She told Meri, “Sorry, I couldn’t help it.”
Janelle explained her remarks during a confessional, claiming, “Those are words [Kody’s] used. ‘She’s very shy and she’s really pretty.’ I’m like, ‘Well, good for you.’”
Janelle, who welcomed six children with Kody during their marriage, reflected on her past with the polygamist, saying, “I mean, I was a little shy when we got married, but I was definitely not submissive. So I don’t know. I guess he misjudged.”
Meri got a laugh from Janelle’s comments about Robyn, asking, “The only wife? Or the only pretty wife? Like, is he slamming all of us?”
Kody Brown and Robyn Brown are seen on September 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. HIGHFIVE/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
“Yeah, I think so. And that none of us were shy,” Janelle replied. “So, I guess that’s his type. Submissive, shy and pretty whatever.”
Janelle laughed, “Sorry, side note, I just had to have an ex-wives club for just a moment.”
As Meri and Janelle continued their chat about their shared Flagstaff, Arizona, property, Meri noted it’s “not fair” that Kody was putting Janelle “in the middle.”
“I thought this needs to all be a conversation with all four of us,” Meri said, referring to Kody and Robyn, 46, also joining the discussion.
Janelle claimed, “I invited him to be part of this conversation and he’s like, ‘No, I just no, like, I don’t really like you.’ And I said, ‘Well, it’s fine. I don’t really like you either.’”
She insisted she doesn’t “care” what Kody says or thinks about her after their split. Meri, meanwhile, said their openness is a breath of fresh air after years of rocky relationships in the Brown family.
“I’m glad they’re both mature enough to be able to just call a spade a spade and just say, ‘No, I don’t like you,’” Meri told the cameras. “I mean this is great, we’re making progress here.”
Janelle also teased that selling Coyote Pass would be “a nice parting gift” for her and Meri, since Christine Brown signed over her stake in the land when she divorced Kody in November 2021.
“I mean, if we’re not going to get alimony, I guess this parting gift works,” Meri said with a laugh.
The Sister Wives stars initially planned to build a quartet of homes in Flagstaff, Arizona, on land informally called Coyote Pass. Kody Brown and his then-wives moved their polygamist family from Utah to Arizona in 2018. Kody wed Meri Brown in 1990, several years before he “spiritually married” Janelle Brown in 1993 and Christine Brown […]
Janelle, meanwhile, said in her confessional, “If I had been legally married to Kody, you sure as hell [know] I would [have taken] half of his assets. I would have.”
Kody was spiritually married to Meri, Janelle and Christine, 53, at the time of their respective splits, meaning they don’t have any legal way to claim assets from the family holdings.
Kody, who legally married Robyn in 2014 and adopted her three children from a prior marriage, did, however, put Meri and Janelle’s names on part of their shared Arizona land.
Multiple outlets reported in April that the family sold Coyote Pass for $1.5 million after purchasing the land in 2018.
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
