'Sister Wives': Christine says Kody 'doesn't even know' their kids - Insider

• Christine Brown said connected "Sister Wives" that her ex Kody "doesn't adjacent know" their kids.
• She said she erstwhile fell successful emotion with his "awesome" side, which she was "sad" her kids didn't know.
• "Listen, I person 18 kids, I'm dispersed thin," Kody said, reflecting connected his relationships.

Ysabel Brown near for assemblage successful North Carolina connected Sunday's episode of "Sister Wives," and that milestone had her ma Christine reflecting connected Kody's relationships (or deficiency thereof) with their kids.

"The hardest portion of my full beingness is that my kids don't person a large narration with their dada — helium doesn't adjacent cognize them," Christine said successful a solo interrogation connected the episode, which was interwoven with scenes of Kody helping Christine, Ysabel, and Truely Brown decorativeness packing up a car for their roadworthy travel to North Carolina. Kody didn't articulation his ex and their 2 daughters for the trip.

Christine was Kody's 3rd of 4 wives successful a polygamous household until they divided successful 2021 aft much than 25 years of "spiritual" marriage. They person six children together: Aspyn, 27, Mykelti, 26, Paedon, 24, Gwendlyn, 21, Ysabel, 19, and Truely, 12. 

"Sister Wives" has explored Kody's strained narration with Ysabel for a mates of seasons now. The hostility betwixt them archetypal became evident connected play 16, filmed successful 2020, erstwhile Kody chose not to travel Christine to Ysabel's country to close her scoliosis, which had to hap connected the eastbound coast, due to the fact that of wellness and information concerns related to traveling amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Christine told People successful August that Kody's determination not to beryllium with Ysabel for specified a large lawsuit was the "wake-up call" that made her recognize she needed to permission Kody and could unrecorded a azygous life. 

Ysabel has questioned her father's priorities connected erstwhile episodes of "Sister Wives," but connected Sunday's episode, seemed to judge that helium wasn't coming connected the roadworthy travel to assistance her get settled successful North Carolina. 

"My dada isn't coming with us," she said successful a solo confessional interview. "He has children present successful Flagstaff, truthful it's not similar helium tin beryllium distant for that long. Also, there's inactive COVID around, unfortunately." 

But Kody, who attended a friend's wedding connected a erstwhile occurrence of "Sister Wives" this season, said helium conscionable didn't privation to question with Christine. He said he'd accepted that she was leaving the marriage, "but I'm not gonna instrumentality a travel with her." 

Reflecting connected however her kids don't person a bully narration with Kody successful her solo interview, Christine said, "You cognize what's sad, too, is they don't cognize however astonishing helium is either," she said. "Kody has this awesome broadside to him that my kids don't know."

She said she fell successful emotion with that antheral astatine 1 point. "Of people he's not that idiosyncratic anymore and neither americium I," she added, noting that this made her "sad."

"Listen, I person 18 kids, I'm dispersed thin," Kody said successful a solo interview, presumably aft being asked by a shaper to bespeak connected his narration with his and Christine's children. "I enactment hard to sojourn with my children, to link with them, to bash thing that they like. It's not ever an casual connection." 

"Sister Wives" airs Sundays astatine 10 p.m. ET connected TLC.