Part of the reason the Coyote Pass sale got so hairy was that the family hadn’t taken care of what happened in Vegas.

When Meri sold her five-bedroom Sin City home, she handed over the profits so that Robyn could purchase her five-bedroom spread in Arizona, with Janelle chipping in as well.

 

 

From there, Meri detailed on the Jan. 18 One-on-One special, “They bought the house that was for them and then, you know, it doubled in value when they sold it. Yay, them.”

Which is when she and Janelle made clear that their loan wasn’t exactly on the house.

And so when it came time to sell their land in Arizona, “There was agreements that hadn’t been settled,” Kody detailed. “Janelle and Meri had gifted money to me and Robyn to purchase Robyn’s house. Meri’s house, the proceeds from her house in Las Vegas, were half mine, OK? And so they wanted their 25 percent of Coyote Pass, but I had put extra money in it. And they wanted to be paid back for their gift for Robyn’s house, but I hadn’t been compensated. And we couldn’t negotiate.”

They were able to strike a deal with Janelle, Robyn noted. “She said 100 percent we were square with her, but Meri hadn’t.”

Still, Kody insisted Meri’s payday was coming. “Meri will get paid,” he swore. “Everybody is going to have their money and I’m going to be bitter because they sat there and just s–t talked me the whole time.”

The friction between once-close Robyn and Meri isn’t exactly water under the bridge. Asked why she felt she didn’t tell her former friend that Kody and Janelle were potentially planning a deal behind her back, Robyn told Sukanya on the Jan. 18 special, “I’m not going to sit there and be disloyal to Kody.”

Had she and Meri remained tight, “Then that could be something to say to me,” Robyn added, “but not now. She has burned so many bridges with me and I don’t know why.”

The issue, Robyn surmised, is Meri is “sitting there trashing me and I don’t even know what the problem is.” All of a sudden, she continued, there friendship was gone. “I don’t know what happened,” Robyn swore. “I don’t know why it’s different. She just all of a sudden was angry at Kody. So somehow I’m lumped into that.”

“I watched their wedding,” he admitted on the Jan. 18 episode. “And I was smiling through the entire thing almost. It was fun to see Christine in a great spot. It’s sort of kind of her dream come true.”

Officially done with former husband Kody Brown (and his nice pecs and six-pack abs), Janelle Brown revealed in Sister Wives’ season 20 opener that she’s borrowing a page from Meri Brown’s playbook.

Never legally entwined to Kody during their 29-year marriage, “I had sort of thought about a spiritual divorce a long time ago and didn’t even realize it was an option,” the patriarch’s second wife detailed on the Sept. 28 premiere. “And so when Meri got one, I’m like, ‘Oh, hey, Meri, who do I call?'”

And her former sister wife—who was granted a spiritual release from their former church on the grounds of abandonment—was more than happy to fill in some blanks. Said Janelle, “She has been kind of helping me get in touch with everybody.”

Madison Brush is still working through the sins of her father. Amid her ongoing estrangement from dad Kody, Madison—the second oldest of his and Janelle’s six kids—admitted on the Sept. 28 episode that she’s still struggling with the separation.

“You want your dad to show up,” the mother of four shared in a confessional alongside husband Caleb Brush. “You want reconciliation. I know I played a part and I’m angry because I’m still trying to learn to not be disappointed.”

It’s a lesson she’s struggling to master. “I’m still learning how to just see him for who he is,” she noted. “I’m trying to understand that maybe he didn’t know how to show up. He might be hurting.”

He also might not be willing to cede too much ground.

Kody stressed his desire to have healing with Meri, Janelle, third wife Christine Brown and their children, explaining, “I think we’re in an impasse here because this healing can only happen on their terms only.”