‘Sister Wives’: Kody Brown ‘Doesn’t Have Any Respect for Boundaries,’ Maddie Brown Says
Maddie Brown Brush has cut Kody Brown out of her life. The Sister Wives star has made no secret that she and her father have had a strained relationship for years. Now, she’s confirmed that she’s gone no contact with her dad because of his anger issues and inability to respect her boundaries.
Maddie Brown Brush says Kody Brown ‘didn’t like a mirror being held up’
Maddie, 29, opened up about dealing with toxic people in the Nov. 11 episode of her The Authentic Society podcast.
“I have no contact with some of my family,” she told co-host Jayme Byrd.
“I’m a straight shooter,” she explained. “You ask me a question, I’m going to tell you what I think. And [my dad] would get very angry when I would be like, ‘I don’t know why you’re surprised here.’ So that was one of the reasons I went no contact. He didn’t like a mirror being held up.”
The mom of three recalled that when she would call Kody out on his anger, he’d deny being angry.
“He’d be like, ‘That’s not true,’” Maddie said. “I’m like, ‘It is true. I know this firsthand.’ And there’s other people that were the same. They’d ask for my opinion and I’d express my opinion and they’d get angry.”
The ‘Sister Wives’ star won’t play by Kody’s rules
To establish some guardrails with her family, Maddie needed to take a step back.
“There’s a point where you need to figure out what your boundaries are. And there’s so much noise from these family members or these friends,” she said. “It’s like, I need a break to figure out who I am without all this that comes with it.”
For Maddie, that also involved putting physical distance between herself and her family. She and her husband Caleb Brush live in North Carolina, more than 1,500 miles from where she grew up in Utah.
As Maddie navigates complicated family relationships, she also has to deal with people who feel entitled to weigh in on her personal life. The breakdown of the Brown family has played out in the public eye, and she sometimes hears from Sister Wives fans who urge her to work on her relationship with Kody.
“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,” she said. “Because your experience with your dad could be very different than my experience with my dad … He doesn’t have any respect for boundaries. You have to play by his rules. And I just don’t care to do that.”
The old saying “blood is thicker than water” doesn’t ring true for Maddie.
“Some people just don’t deserve to be in your life,” she said.
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