Sister Wives Scandal: TLC Hides Key Janelle, Meri Moment Over Kody Shutting Down Family Account—But Aussie Fans Expose It!
Sister Wives is on a break until spring, but before the finale airs, Aussie fans are exposing Kody Brown’s misdeeds. TLC often edits the series differently for international audiences, sometimes adding extra content. However, a crucial element was omitted from a key scene, completely altering its entire context.
Kody Brown’s shady actions are highlighted in a ‘Sister Wives’ deleted scene
In Sister Wives Season 19 Episode 19, “Behold I Come Like a Thief,” former adversaries Janelle and Meri Brown united against Kody and Robyn Brown. The women are trying to recoup the money they invested in Coyote Pass.
On camera, the women revealed details of emails with Kody about how the property was to be divided. Janelle added the land was paid for out of the family fund. Meri agreed, “We all paid for it equally.”
They’ve spoken to lawyers, and Janelle called a situation “a business that had gone bad.”
However, in Australia, fans got to see a deleted scene on Facebook that shed new light on their conversation. Janelle admitted, “I have been asking [Kody] for like a year or more to go get his name off my bank account and he went in on one day and didn’t tell me, took his name off all of my accounts, and closed the family business account, which I had been keeping open so I could get records pulled and all that. I went to log into the business account and it’s like there is not an account and I’m like what?”
Janelle added in a separate confessional, “I was going to do it but I had kind of kept it open. Because I just wanted to make sure that until this property is settled those records were all there as a lot of the transactions for the land came from that account.”
“When I realized that it had been shut down, I kind of had this pit in my stomach. Like ‘I hope to hell that I don’t need anything as verification from that account.’ I sort of felt like it was kind of sneaky or something.”
Why is this type of information kept quiet on the U.S. version of ‘Sister Wives’?
In the U.S., Sister Wives runtime is 45 minutes or less due to TLC’s commercial breaks. However, Sister Wives episodes often differ overseas due to edits by international broadcasters, who air fewer commercial breaks than their U.S. counterparts.
As a result, scenes cut in the U.S. often make it into international episodes, filling in the obvious storyline gaps. TLC could clarify much of the missing information by releasing deleted scenes. But even when extra footage is added, many key moments remain absent from the show’s final edit.
This discrepancy has been happening for years. Many of these missing moments can be found on YouTube, where international versions of Sister Wives episodes are available.
Fans react to this crucial piece of the ‘Sister Wives’ storyline
In the comments section of the Facebook post, fans reacted to this critical piece of Sister Wives information. Viewers were furious they are not getting the whole story from TLC.
“Don’t they both have to agree to that bank account being closed? How sly is this man? I actually cannot stand him,” a viewer wrote on Facebook.
“How come we here in the U.S. don’t see any of this instead of seeing her Robyn crying over bull****,” penned a second, furious fan. “Wow, thank you,” a third fan noted.
A fourth noted, “It’s a damn good thing they got lawyers, he was going to try and screw with them both!”
Sister Wives is currently on hiatus. The series returns in the spring with the season’s final episodes and tell-all installments.
