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Kody Brown and his wife Robyn Brown have exited TLC’s Sister Wives after 16 years, and they will “not be returning.” In 2021, Christine Brown Woolley was the first of Kody’s four wives to end their spiritual marriage. Janelle Brown broke things off soon after, then Meri Brown (his first wife).
Now, Robyn is Kody’s only wife, and they’re legally married. Christine remarried in 2023, and Janelle just announced her relationship with boyfriend Pete. Pete will be featured in some capacity in the new season.
“After 16 years of filming Sister Wives, Kody & Robyn will not be returning to the show,” the network explained in a trailer for the upcoming season of Sister Wives. But Robyn and Kody did not comment on their departures.
“I don’t know what it means. I have no idea,” said Christine.
“I was flabbergasted, really, when I got the news,” said Janelle.
“I was actually surprised when I was told that Kody and Robyn weren’t coming back to the show,” commented Meri.
At the end of last season, Kody went on an apology tour for his past actions, though many of his adult children are still not on speaking terms with him.
In September 2025, Christine recalled her addiction to oxycodone in her new memoir.
“[In 2016], I blew out my knee. I tore my ACL and my meniscus, and I had to have surgery. [My husband at the time] Kody [Brown] brought me home from the hospital and then prepared to leave,” she explained in the book, Sister Wife. “‘What do I need to do?’ I asked, wondering about meds and aftercare. ‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘They didn’t give you any instructions?’ ‘No,’ he said. But he had gotten my prescription for pain pills filled, and he handed me the bag.”
“My mom and daughters stayed to help. I had never taken oxycodone before — if something hurt, I took ibuprofen or aspirin,” she continued. “Real pain indicates that something’s wrong, and if I take something that masks the problem, I’m not going to fix the problem, so I generally avoid it. With the surgery, I had already fixed the problem, and it hurt, so I took my meds.”
She said the addiction was “very difficult.”
“Even though I was on it for a month, the effects of it lasted at least six. I didn’t feel normal,” she explained. “I didn’t feel okay for so long. So, once I was done and I felt better, I just felt good to feel better. And I realized that with writing the book, that’s something I didn’t go back and revisit was the addiction to oxycodone. … Oxy is a terrible, addictive thing if you don’t need it.”