Kody Brown’s “shy and pretty” wife Robyn was called out on Sunday’s Sister Wives Tell-All for ruining the Brown Family’s first offer on Coyote Pass by pulling an alleged “power play” on her former sister wives Janelle and Meri.
As fans of ‘Sister Wives’ know, Kody, Robyn, Janelle and Meri successfully sold their jointly owned Flagstaff property in April for $1.5 million; however, there were multiple stumbling blocks they had to overcome before doing so– including an alleged last-minute attempt by Robyn to have Kody’s ex-wives sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). On Part 1 of the Season 20 Tell-All, Janelle revealed that, upon receiving the first written offer on the Coyote Pass property, the title work signatures were completed “within a week” by herself, Meri and Kody, after which Janelle sent the checks to the title company. Despite the contract nearing expiration at that point, Janelle claimed that Robyn decided to interject and make demands of her former sister wives that ultimately caused the initial deal to fall through.
“… [Robyn] says, ‘Oh, I’m not going to do it unless you guys sign this confidentiality agreement,’” Janelle recalled to host Suki Krishnan, during Sunday’s episode. “Robyn hadn’t chimed it at all the entire six weeks, two months. And at the very end, she comes with a completed document for us to sign. “So, it felt like a total power play,” Janelle continued. “So, the deal expired. Thank God [the buyer] renewed.”
As ‘Sister Wives’ fans know, Kody and Janelle were allegedly discussing a “backdoor deal” at one point, in which the Coyote Pass property would have been sold behind Meri’s back, with Kody paying her the proceeds she was owed after the sale was complete. While Kody has maintained that this “backdoor deal” was entirely Janelle’s idea, he admitted on Sunday’s Tell-All that he seriously considered going along with it at one point, allegedly due to Meri not signing the necessary paperwork in a timely manner.
“I was getting frustrated enough to just sell the property and then I’ll distribute money at my convenience,” he admitted. “ … [the backdoor deal] wasn’t my idea,” Kody also stated on Sunday’s episode. “Janelle came to me with the idea, ‘You can force the sale on this,’ and then started pressuring me. Very typical plural marriage situation, it was like old times. It’s like, she’s pressuring me against the other wives [and saying], ‘We need to sell, you need to make those other women come into compliance.’”
Kody accused Janelle of being “backstab-y” by proposing the alleged backdoor deal to him, though Janelle argued on the Tell-All that she was simply following the advice that she’d received from her lawyer.
“All I can do is be responsible for what I know I said– I can’t be responsible for how they perceived [it] or what they think,” she said. “My lawyers had said, ‘You might want to consider just trying to get the sale to go through.’ And I told Kody that I had been advised that, but that I really wanted to try to get this to work out.”
After the Browns had received the renewed offer on the property, Janelle said Kody insisted that she be the one to communicate with Meri about what was going on, though Janelle noted that by then, Meri was working through her lawyer as she refused to be “silenced again.”
“It was all about silencing me,” Meri said of the alleged NDA. “They didn’t want me to talk and I could not figure out why. So when they say, ‘Meri was stopping it, Meri was stopping [the sale],’ damn right I was. Because I’m not f**king going to be silenced again.”
Part 2 of the ‘Sister Wives’ Season 20 Tell-All airs Sunday on TLC.
