Sister Wives' Madison Brush Explains Why She Went 'No Contact' with Father Kody Brown

Mar. 15, 2025

(L-R) Madison Brush; Kody Brown.Photo:Madison Brush/Instagram; Gabe Ginsberg/Getty

Madison Brush/Instagram; Gabe Ginsberg/Getty

Madison “Maddie” Brushis speaking out against her fatherKody Brown.

The daughter ofSister WivesstarJanelle Brownrevealed why she decided to cut contact with her dad on the Nov. 11 episode of her podcast,The Authentic Society.The 29-year-old, who has three children and iscurrently pregnant with her fourth, has been a topic of conversation on the current 19th season of the TLC hit, but fans have not heard much from her perspective until now.

(L-R) Kody Brown; Madison Brush.Denise Truscello/Getty; Madison Brush/Instagram

Denise Truscello/Getty; Madison Brush/Instagram

“My dad would get very angry when I would — I’m a straight shooter, you ask me a question, I’m going to tell you what I think — and he would get very angry when I would be like, ‘I don’t know why you’re surprised here,’” she continued. “And so that was one of the reasons that I went no contact because it was like, he didn’t like a mirror being held up.”

Maddie said when she would disagree with Kody, 55, or bring attention to an issue she had with him, he would immediately become defensive.

“There was a lot of anger and he’d be like, ‘That’s not true!’ and I’m like, ‘It is true. I know this firsthand,’” she explained. “I always get messages from people who are like, ‘You should just forgive your dad and respect him.’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t think you know what you’re talking about because your experience with your dad could be very different than my experience with my dad.’”

“Some people just don’t deserve to be in your life,” she added.

(L-R) Maddie Brush and Janelle Brown.Janelle Brown/Instagram

Three of Kody’s four marriages to his sister wivesfell apart within a span of 14 months. His third wife,Christine, was thefirst to leavein November 2021, and he and Janelle separated a year later in December 2022.

“Kody and I have separated and I’m happy, really happy,” Janelle said in a previousSister Wives: One on Onespecial. “I don’t know, things just really became sort of indifferent, like I just didn’t care anymore.”

Janelle also said that she was “not waiting” for a possible reconciliation with Kody. “I’ve kind of mourned that that part of our life is gone,” she shared. “I wasn’t heartbroken. It wasn’t heartbreaking for me like it was for Christine [Brown]. It was just kind of like, I just mourned that that life was gone…. We had this great run.”

Around that same time, Kody’s first wifeMericonfirmedtheir separation after the pair’s relationship had beenplatonicand distant for years.

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source: people.com