Kody Brown’s Covid Rules Destroyed His Family; He Knows It & Doesn’t Care

The effects of the Covid pandemic are inactive being felt passim the satellite adjacent years later. On Sister Wives, it’s wide that the choices made by patriarch Kody Brown during the pandemic person changed the cloth of his household for the remainder of his life. 

Sometimes, it sounds similar helium cares. In the astir caller occurrence of the 19th season, it’s wide that this is not 1 of those times. 

In fact, helium seems astatine bid with the information that his choices during Covid person outgo him 2 marriages, and relationships with the bulk of his kids. 

‘Sister Wives’ Kody Brown faces the camera connected Season 19. (Image Credit: TLC)

Kody Brown’s Covid Rules: Harsh oregon Necessary?

Travel backmost with america concisely to 2020 and the 16th play of Sister Wives. 

Being successful a plural household meant that implicit 20 people, varying successful ages from babe to adult, had to navigate caller restrictions similar societal distancing and masking. 

Under the guise of wanting everyone to consciousness “safe,” Kody asked the full household to travel a strict acceptable of guidelines. Janelle astatine the clip called them the “10 cardinal commandments of Kody.”

This included everything from not leaving the location to wiping down message with intoxicant wipes. 

Now, portion we applaud Kody for taking the concern seriously, it was argued, by fans and his household alike, that his restrictions were spot much for the involvement of immoderate of the family, not for the household arsenic a whole. 

While Meri, Janelle, and Christine were quarantined from Kody, Robyn got months of prime clip with Kody, arsenic did her children. 

Things came to caput yet with the older boys helium had with Janelle were ordered by Kody to determination retired of their household location due to the fact that they could not travel the rules. 

On ‘Sister Wives’, Garrison Brown receives hugs from his loving siblings. (Image Credit: TLC)

The Rift Between Garrison and Kody

One of the kids whose narration with their begetter fundamentally ended during Covid was Garrison.

At the time, Kody expressed choler aft his and his 2nd woman Janelle’s lad called him and accused him of being excessively utmost with his COVID protocols. 

“The information is, successful this environment, I’m conscionable trying to support my children, particularly my tiny children, from getting COVID,” Kody explained during an episode, referencing the younger children helium shares with Robyn. 

Kody went truthful acold arsenic to impeach Garrison of spreading COVID to each of Janelle’s kids, Janelle, and Garrison’s ain girlfriend. 

The combat resulted successful Garrison and Kody refusing to talk to each other, and it remained that mode until the time Garrison died in the wintertime of 2024. 

Kody Admits His His Rules Ruined His Family – But Stands By It 

It takes a batch for Kody to admit that helium was incorrect – unless you’re offering consecutive up cash, successful which lawsuit helium owns up to his mistakes for the low, debased terms of $99.

Case successful point, for immoderate crushed known lone to them, a instrumentality of Kody’s paid the terms successful speech for the Sister Wives prima to grounds a video for her connected Cameo. 

Referencing the VERY strict rules helium enactment successful spot implicit a twelvemonth agone successful the look of a deadly pandemic, Kody really admitted successful this footage that he’s been “struggling.”

“I don’t adjacent cognize what to accidental astir [COVID] anymore,” Kody says successful the video.

“I deliberation that my cure has been worse than the disease. That’s conscionable a idiosyncratic thing… I’m second-guessing myself, which I astir apt shouldn’t bash astatine this point.”

Oh no, you should.

Alienating your children and procalming they’re not aren’t allowed to walk clip with you? That’s beauteous bad. 

 “It’s been a agelong 2 years, this full thing, astir 2 years,” Kody continues successful his latest Cameo, adding arsenic a connection to the idiosyncratic who ordered the clip:

“Anyway, bent successful there. All of america are having to bash it. All of america request to bent successful there.”

It’s true.

One can’t blasted Kody excessively overmuch for taking each information precaution possible, but adjacent Janelle told him to f–k off erstwhile helium got retired of control. 

Robyn confronts Kody connected play 19 of Sister Wives. (TLC)

He Did It All For Robyn 

“I cognize there’s a batch of accusations from the boys astir maine and they’re false,” Robyn told the Sister Wives cameras astatine the time.”

Janelle and Christine’s children collectively felt that Kody utilized Covid to take a household to settee down with, alternatively than dispersed himself amongst his 4 wives. They felt helium chose Robyn and that she, successful turn, insisted connected the precise strict Covid rules. 

But Robyn insisted that was untrue. 

“I conscionable don’t person the benignant of powerfulness implicit Kody. And if I did, I surely wouldn’t person chosen what we chose done COVID,” she said. “I would person had america beryllium down and find a compromise astir however to grip COVID unneurotic arsenic a family. That’s what I would person done if I’d had ‘the power’ that they deliberation I have.”

A just point, and we besides think, fixed however overmuch Robyn pushes for family, that if she did person the power, she would made Kody beryllium with his daughter Ysabel when she had indispensable spine country during the pandemic. 

Kody outright refused to question with her to get the operation. The determination destroyed their narration and ended his matrimony with Christine. 

Shortly after, his inability to repair his narration with their children forced Janelle’s manus arsenic good and they divorced. 

(It doesn’t truly use to this communicative per say, but arsenic a constituent of order, Meri and Kody besides divided a twelvemonth aft that. Now Kody is JUST with Robyn.)

Kody Brown faces the camera with his accustomed levels of bluster connected ‘Sister Wives’ Season 19. (Image Credit: TLC)

Kody Admits His Mistake, But Hasn’t Changed

Fast guardant to 2024, and the 19th play of Sister Wives shows wherever Kody’s astatine today.

The episodes were filmed successful precocious 2022, good earlier the decease of his lad Garrison. In the 3rd episode in, Kody admits helium regrets abandoning Ysabel and forcing the boys to determination out.

However, helium has yet to repair immoderate of his relationships with his kids that were affected.

In fact, it doesn’t dependable similar helium was capable to repair his narration with Garrison earlier his passing.

“We could person been talking more,” Kody said erstwhile helium broke his silence connected Garrison’s passing.

“I’d get texts, worldly similar that, and we could have, retrospectively, we could person done truthful overmuch more. And it was astir similar — I’m engaged with my life, he’s engaged with his life, and erstwhile we connect, we’ll connect.”

Such a shame