It doesn’t appear that Sister Wives star Kody Brown has managed to improve his relationships with his adult children since the new season of the show was filmed. After he accused daughter Madison Brown of gossiping about him on this week’s episode, Maddie took to Instagram to seemingly fight back, and even appeared to call Kody a “snake” in the post she shared with her followers.
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On the show, Kody became more than a little defensive about where things stand with Maddie.
After Robyn — Kody’s remaining wife — admitted that she was losing respect for her husband because of the way he was treating his adult children he is estranged from, it seemed like he was pretty triggered.
In return, Kody claimed that his daughter had “scuttled” his grandchildren away from him the last time they happened to be in the same place.
“She never told me she was pregnant. She never told me she was going to have a baby,” he said.
He also went so far as to call Maddie a gossip.
“I am only guilty of not falling madly in love with their mothers. Well, Madison actually called Janelle, saying ‘Dad said he didn’t love you,'” Kody told Robyn. Later, he added, “Every time I talk to her, she spreads gossip about me to the rest of the family.”
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Maddie seemed to fight back after the footage of this conversation aired this week.
On her Instagram Stories, Maddie shared a post that seemed to give us a peek into where her head is when it comes to her father’s opinion of her.
The post reads, “A piece of advice. Never re-friend or re-family a person who tried to destroy your character, your integrity, or your relationships with others. A snake only sheds its skin to be a bigger snake. If others fall victim and walk away from you because of that, let them … sooner or later the snake will bite them too.”
Ouch!
Janelle defended her daughter on the episode.
Janelle, Maddie’s mom who left the family in 2022, told the TLC cameras that Maddie is distancing herself from Kody not just for herself but also for her three young children.
“Really, Maddie doesn’t have any contact with him. She is very protective of her children.” she said. “Kody has not been there since Evie was born, and Evie is 3 and a half. And she didn’t want him to just drop in and be like, ‘Oh, I’m your grandpa.’ And them be like, ‘What? Who is this guy?’ You know what I mean?”
Maddie hasn't tried to hide her estrangement from Kody.
When she wished husband Caleb Brush a happy Father’s Day on Instagram in June, she called him the “most patient, kind, and attentive dad” she knows.
“We are incredibly blessed to have you in our lives and to love you. Watching you with our kids has healed parts of me I didn’t even know needed,” she wrote.
