‘Sister Wives’ Star Robyn Brown Says She Feels ‘Gaslit’ by Her Family Members: ‘I Wanted Too Much’

Sister Wives star Robyn Brown is struggling with accusations made against her by former sister wives Christine Brown, Janelle Brown and Meri Brown.

“I’ve been hearing some feedback from family about the accusations being made against me,” the TLC personality, 46, said in a clip of the show shared by TLC via Instagram on Wednesday, January 1. “I feel like I’ve been gaslit by some of the family members.”

In a confessional, Kody Brown admitted that it felt “natural” for there to be some “jealousy and dislike” that Janelle, 55, Christine, 52, and Meri, 53, felt toward Robyn, whom he legally married in December 2014. Robyn is Kody’s last remaining wife after his other three former spouses separated from the Brown family patriarch.

“It’s just a thing that happens in plural marriages,” Kody, 55, said of the animosity. “I should be bigger about it, but we’re supposed to be a team working together.”

Becoming emotional in her own confessional, Robyn added, “I know what I wanted. I want this family. I was bending over backward to encourage Kody’s relationships with his wives and Kody’s relationships with his kids. I had too high of expectations. I wanted too much from my sister wives.”

Tensions rose between Robyn and Kody’s exes during the Sunday, December 29, episode of Sister Wives when Christine — who announced her split from the Brown Family Entertainment founder in 2021 — accused Robyn of “planting” the idea for Kody to legally divorce Meri in 2014 so that he could tie the knot with her instead.

“When Robyn first came into the family, she started talking to us about these other families where the first wife divorced the husband so he could marry the second wife legally and legally adopt the kids,” Christine said. “I don’t think Meri felt like it was planted. I think Meri felt like it was her own idea.”

However, Robyn insisted that this was an “absolute lie.”

“I never said it. I don’t even know anyone who divorced their first wife so that the second wife could adopt kids. I’ve never even heard of that before,” she explained in a confessional. “Meri told me when she made the offer that when we were getting to know each other, she had had the idea in her head to offer to give me the legal marriage so that Kody could adopt my kids.”

Robyn also claimed that she “never even wanted to be legally married to Kody.”

“I was actually really grateful that I wasn’t going to be legally married to Kody because I’d gone through so much trauma with my legal divorce in my last marriage,” the mom of five, who was previously married to David Jessop from 1999 to 2007, continued. “I was very happy and content with my spiritual marriage. I didn’t need anything else.”

Though Kody’s splits from Christine, Meri and Janelle left a strain on the family, Robyn admitted during the episode that she hasn’t given up on the idea of plural marriage.

“If I had a guarantee that it would be something that would be beneficial and we would have a positive successful experience, I would be interested in living plural marriage again,” she explained. “But I would need some sort of guarantee just because this experience of the family falling apart has been so traumatic, and not just for me and not just for Kody, but for our children and for all the children.”