‘Sister Wives’ Recap: Kody and Christine Brown’s Daughter Truely Says Being Told ‘Last’ About Their Split Was a ‘Betrayal’

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‘Sister Wives’ Recap: Kody and Christine Brown’s Daughter Truely Says Being Told 'Last' About Their Split Was a 'Betrayal'

Out of the mouths of babes. Kody Brown and Christine Brown’s youngest daughter, Truely, didn’t hold back when speaking about her parents’ split on the latest episode of Sister Wives. “So, the first day when I found out, I was extremely upset. I’m fine now,” Truely, who was 11 when the couple called it quits, told her mom, 50, during the Sunday, October 23, episode of the TLC series. “I kind of noticed the signs earlier that you weren’t as happy. But you didn’t really show it that much. It was a bit of a heartbreak at first but I’m fine [now]." The TLC personality, who is now 12, confessed that she was more upset that she was the last person to know that Kody, 53, and Christine were getting divorced. “The realization that everybody knew before me — felt like a betrayal,” Truely told the cameras. The preteen learned about the couple’s breakup by overhearing her older sister Mykelti, 26, talking to their mom about her new to Utah. Christine was then forced to explain what was happening to her youngest child, which fans saw play out on the October 16 episode of the reality show. (Christine announced the split in November 2021.) During Sunday’s episode, Truely insisted that she was “fine” while speaking with her mom, but Christine was not convinced. “Even though Truely is saying she’s OK, she’s just an 11-year-old kid. Is she 100 percent OK? No. That’s going to take time,” the Cooking With Just Christine star said during a confessional. “I look at this conversation as the beginning.” [sendtonews type="float" key="tV6ipUHhR8-2830392-14453"] Truely, who is the youngest of six kids, did tell her mom how frustrated she was by the timing of the news. She noted that since she would be moving from Arizona with Christine it made her mad, she didn’t know sooner. (In addition to Truely and Mykelti, the exes also share son Paedon, 23, and daughters Aspyn, 27, Gwendlyn, 20, and Ysabel, 19.) “I kind of wish that you didn’t keep it a secret from me for so long,” she admitted. Kody, for his part, was not happy with how things transpired either. “I don’t want to say anything bad here because we’re going to share our children for the rest of our lives. But I do believe she’s being very unfair with me and to me,” he said of Christine. “She’s marginalized me so much and our marriage so much that she’s kind of leading Truely into blowing it off. They’re blowing it off.” Christine exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, October 18, how the former spouses handled Truely’s emotions. “I think I was more devastated than [Kody] was about how [Truely] found out,” she said. “When he came over and spoke with her the next day, she’d already kind of processed that we were getting a divorce and were moving and was super sad.” The patriarch — who is still spiritually married to Meri Brown and Janelle Brown and in a legal union with Robyn Brown — revealed during Sunday's episode that he was still trying to navigate the split. “This entire experience of this breakup has spun my head off my neck,” the father of 18 explained to the cameras. Kody later confessed that “the lack of love between us was for a reason” as he and Christine fought over her moving and their kids. Christine, meanwhile, expressed relief that she doesn’t “have to deal with him anymore,” saying in a confessional, “I can’t respect this person anymore.” Sister Wives airs on TLC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET. Scroll down for the biggest moments from season 17, episode 7:

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‘Sister Wives’ Recap: Kody and Christine Brown’s Daughter Truely Says Being Told 'Last' About Their Split Was a 'Betrayal'

Out of the mouths of babes. Kody Brown and Christine Brown’s youngest daughter, Truely, didn’t hold back when speaking about her parents’ split on the latest episode of Sister Wives. “So, the first day when I found out, I was extremely upset. I’m fine now,” Truely, who was 11 when the couple called it quits, told her mom, 50, during the Sunday, October 23, episode of the TLC series. “I kind of noticed the signs earlier that you weren’t as happy. But you didn’t really show it that much. It was a bit of a heartbreak at first but I’m fine [now]." The TLC personality, who is now 12, confessed that she was more upset that she was the last person to know that Kody, 53, and Christine were getting divorced. “The realization that everybody knew before me — felt like a betrayal,” Truely told the cameras. The preteen learned about the couple’s breakup by overhearing her older sister Mykelti, 26, talking to their mom about her new to Utah. Christine was then forced to explain what was happening to her youngest child, which fans saw play out on the October 16 episode of the reality show. (Christine announced the split in November 2021.) During Sunday’s episode, Truely insisted that she was “fine” while speaking with her mom, but Christine was not convinced. “Even though Truely is saying she’s OK, she’s just an 11-year-old kid. Is she 100 percent OK? No. That’s going to take time,” the Cooking With Just Christine star said during a confessional. “I look at this conversation as the beginning.” [sendtonews type="float" key="tV6ipUHhR8-2830392-14453"] Truely, who is the youngest of six kids, did tell her mom how frustrated she was by the timing of the news. She noted that since she would be moving from Arizona with Christine it made her mad, she didn’t know sooner. (In addition to Truely and Mykelti, the exes also share son Paedon, 23, and daughters Aspyn, 27, Gwendlyn, 20, and Ysabel, 19.) “I kind of wish that you didn’t keep it a secret from me for so long,” she admitted. Kody, for his part, was not happy with how things transpired either. “I don’t want to say anything bad here because we’re going to share our children for the rest of our lives. But I do believe she’s being very unfair with me and to me,” he said of Christine. “She’s marginalized me so much and our marriage so much that she’s kind of leading Truely into blowing it off. They’re blowing it off.” Christine exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, October 18, how the former spouses handled Truely’s emotions. “I think I was more devastated than [Kody] was about how [Truely] found out,” she said. “When he came over and spoke with her the next day, she’d already kind of processed that we were getting a divorce and were moving and was super sad.” The patriarch — who is still spiritually married to Meri Brown and Janelle Brown and in a legal union with Robyn Brown — revealed during Sunday's episode that he was still trying to navigate the split. “This entire experience of this breakup has spun my head off my neck,” the father of 18 explained to the cameras. Kody later confessed that “the lack of love between us was for a reason” as he and Christine fought over her moving and their kids. Christine, meanwhile, expressed relief that she doesn’t “have to deal with him anymore,” saying in a confessional, “I can’t respect this person anymore.” Sister Wives airs on TLC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET. Scroll down for the biggest moments from season 17, episode 7:

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Kody Grapples With the Concept of Marriage

While traveling to Oklahoma for his friend’s wedding, Kody revealed how conflicted he was over being the officiant of the ceremony. He noted, “I’m still in a very bad place” when it comes to his own divorce from Christine.

“I drove here decrying marriage and the foolishness of it. If I stutter through this thing and do the worst job ever, I’m only partly to blame,” he said in a confessional, seemingly revealing he procrastinated on his speech due to his split from Christine.

Kody also joked about his first plural union with Janelle while spending time with the groom. “I admit, the day I married Janelle, she was my first plural wife, I was asked how I felt,” he reflected. “I said, ‘Well, I feel as nervous as a three-legged cat on a hot tin roof.’”

Both Robyn, 43, and Janelle, 53, told the cameras that Kody was struggling after Christine left him. “He feels like it’s a little bit of a failure that this marriage is falling apart,” Janelle said, while Robyn pointed out, “I know he’s been in a dark place.”

Before performing the ceremony, Kody again shared his thoughts about love, revealing, “My thoughts so far about marriage, ironically, have been mixed. … I am still shocked that [my friends] Brian and Judith wanted me to do it. Yes, it is something I am used to doing. But I’m also a failed priest. I’ve got a wife leaving me.”

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Truely Sounds Off on Her Parents’ Split

“She told me last after everybody else … and we were about to leave. It was kind of hurtful,” Truely told the cameras of her mom finally telling her about the breakup. “It did feel like a betrayal that she wouldn’t bother to tell me about it and I was going to be affected the most.”

Christine noted that “there is a little bit of spark that is not in her eye yet," adding, "Of course, she’s still sad."

Kody, for his part, talked to Truely the day after Christine broke the news to her that they were no longer together. “She seemed to have dealt with it either very well — or maybe she just buried it emotionally. She seemed very OK,” he recalled. “I’m kind of glad she’s not broken hearted by the divorce. I wish I could get them to stay.”

Truely confessed: “I haven’t really talked to Dad a lot about the divorce.”

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Kody and Christine Bicker Over His Oklahoma Trip

Kody’s wives had mixed feelings over him traveling to Oklahoma to officiate his friend Brian’s wedding. “Yeah, the travel choice is interesting to me,” Janelle said, noting that her spouse had previously shunned trips amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I was like, what about COVID? Are you going to mask up while you’re officiating?” Christine asked.

The Utah native later revealed that once her and Kody’s daughter Ysabel learned that her dad traveled for a friend but not to be by her side during her past surgery, she was livid. “Ysabel’s heartbroken,” Christine explained. “She goes, ‘How can he justify officiating Brian’s wedding when he wouldn’t even come to my surgery?’”

Kody, on the other hand, denied that the wedding trip and surgery situation were in any way comparable. “Ysabel’s surgery was at a time and a situation where it would’ve required that I’m six or eight weeks away from home,” he told the cameras. “I was gone for four days for Brian’s wedding. That’s it.”

Christine, however, confessed that she was “mad” that Kody seemed to choose a friend over their daughter.

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Kody Faces Off Against Gabriel

“Me and my dad we don’t talk as much as we used to. Ever since we talk about COVID and stuff. Tension has been really high,” Gabe, 21, said during a confessional after working with his dad to level his mom Janelle’s RV. “It just seems like he’s tired of putting in effort into maintaining something with me. I don’t really understand what I did wrong.”

The Wyoming native disagreed with his son’s interpretation of events, saying, “The whole issue here with me and Gabriel isn’t that Gabriel doesn’t know what’s going on. Gabriel knew what the rules were. He was gaslighting me I feel like.”

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Kody and Christine Don’t See Eye to Eye on Their Arizona House

“We’re moving and keeping this house. What I’m thinking about doing is renting out [the place],” Christine suggested to her former spouse, noting that their daughter Gwendlyn can continue to live there and she can stay there when she brings Truely to visit.

Kody, meanwhile, proposed selling the house so the family can pay off their Coyote Pass property and start building. “The family actually bought the house,” the patriarch pointed out during a confessional interview. “It’s not your house, it’s our house.”

Christine, for her part, told the cameras: “If I’m going to sell my house, I’m going to keep the proceeds. If I sell, I’m not going to put that money into Coyote Pass. That ship sailed for me.”

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The Custody Battle Over Truely Begins

“You and I have to actually have a child custody agreement in place or the state takes her — essentially becomes the owner of her. It’s stupid,” Kody explained to Christine ahead of her Utah move. “Otherwise, you’re going to get a lawyer [involved].”

Christine confessed to the cameras: “I’ve always wanted to him be around his kids. He just doesn’t trust me.” Kody agreed with his ex, saying in a confessional, “No, I don’t trust her. What’s the next move she’s going to make against me?”

While Kody was adamant about a child custody agreement for Truely, he told Christine he didn’t want anything to be recorded in Utah after the family left the state in 2011. “My wives and I left Utah under duress. She’s going back to a state that hates me,” he explained. “I don’t trust her. Whether she’s going to be good to me is unknown.”

The duo didn’t resolve the issue during their conversation, but it did leave Christine wondering what she would do next. “I would love to not get a lawyer involved,” she said. “We’re not legally married so we don’t have to go down that road.”