Kody Brown has come to terms with the marriage of his former wife, Christine Brown, to David Woolley. However, when it comes to David’s involvement with their children, Kody remains hesitant.

In a recent episode of Sister Wives aired on December 21, David, aged 61, offered Kody, 56, some advice during a discussion in which Kody apologized to Christine, 53, for their past relationship troubles and subsequent separation. “Can I give you a little bit of advice? Just a little bit. Start with your kids,” David suggested.

With eight children of his own, David urged Kody to prioritize healing with the six children he shares with Christine, pointing out that Kody’s ex-wives have already moved forward with their lives. “Your kids still need to heal and that’s the part that you need [to work on],” David remarked. He shared his personal experience, explaining that he faced similar challenges with his own children, but they eventually overcame their differences.

Christine appeared taken aback and somewhat bewildered during the episode as Kody professed his past love for her, all while seated with her new husband, David Woolley. “You’re telling me you used to love me? I’m, like, this is my husband here. This is so weird,” she expressed, capturing the complex dynamics at play.

Christine Brown is speechless — and a bit surprised — in the new episode of Sister Wives as Kody Brown confesses to loving her in the past while sitting across from her new husband, David Woolley. “You’re telling me you used to love me? I’m, like, this is my husband here. This is so weird,” […]

Kody was visibly annoyed by David’s comments, telling the cameras, “My whole purpose here is to apologize to Christine. Not to David, not to anybody else.” (Kody has been on an apology tour throughout this season of the TLC series, starting with ex Janelle Brown before moving onto Christine and eventually Meri Brown.)

“I’ve set a boundary with my kids and I’m setting that boundary with David and Christine,” Kody said during his confessional. “I don’t care what you think. I’m here to apologize and I don’t even want to be reminded of that because it will bring me back to an angry place.”

Kody eventually addressed David and Christine directly about his fractured relationship with his kids, telling them, “There’s an effort I’m already making and reaching out.”

The patriarch — who is the father of 18 kids total with his three ex-wives and current wife Robyn Brown — has had issues with most of his adult children since splitting from their moms.

As Kody Brown geared up for the second stop on his so-called “apology tour” on Sister Wives, he confessed his relationship with Christine Brown isn’t as healthy as the one with Janelle Brown. “I think the easiest of the chores was going to see Janelle and apologize to her,” Kody, 56, revealed during the Sunday, […]

Christine and Kody announced their split in 2021, followed by Janelle, 56, confirming her own separation in 2022. Meri, 54, shared in early 2023 that she and Kody had parted ways as well.

“Those deteriorations happened as a party, not as an individual. Do you understand that?” Kody quipped, looking directly at David, who was sitting next to Christine.

David confessed to the cameras, “When he cut me off on it, I’m like, ‘OK, I had to say what I said just to make sure, because I am around his kids and I do see them hurt and I’m hoping that he’ll reach out to every one of them. And it’s not just on his terms. It’s on their terms, too.’”

David, who married Christine in October 2023, remained calm during the group meeting, but Kody later revealed he didn’t appreciate him chiming in.

“Any of his experience with his children and any of his advice for me is something that I’m just not interested in at this point, because it’s like he’s kind of just on the opposite side of this,” Kody told the cameras.

He claimed that David “really just doesn’t know what’s going on. He thinks he does. He thinks he understands polygamy, but he only has a small perspective on it.”

David, meanwhile, argued that he knows “a lot” about polygamy because his siblings lived it.

“I’ve been around it since basically the day I was born. And so for him to sit there and say I don’t know, he doesn’t know me,” David explained.

Christine Brown left ex-husband Kody Brown out of her heartfelt Father’s Day tribute — and made it clear why she now leans on fiancé David Woolley.  “Happy Father’s Day @david__woolley. I’ve watched how loving, compassionate and present you are with your children,” Christine, 51, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, June 18, alongside a carousel of […]

Despite his issues with David, Kody vowed to continue to try and mend fences with his and Christine’s kids — but in his own way.

“My bad experience with my children and their pain comes from an experience that we were in together, not that they or I did something wrong and offensive,” Kody told David and Christine. “I’m willing to have the conversation. I’m willing to hold space. ‘Dad, you did this, you did this, you did this.’ I’m willing to hold that space.”

He noted, “You guys can advise my kids to communicate with me, but I shouldn’t have you guys involved in my relationship with my children.”

Christine completely agreed and quickly tried to end their meeting, telling the cameras there is “no gaping hole left in my heart” for Kody.

“I already did the closure. By the time I committed to David, I was done with Kody,” she explained.

Kody reflected on the conversation later in the episode, confessing, “I didn’t want to be rude with David, but I don’t know how long until I’m out of here. I don’t know how long they’re going to stay. I want Christine, I want to set her free.”

While his apology to Christine didn’t go exactly as planned, Kody agreed to meet up with her and David the next day in Las Vegas for a fun outing to try and leave things on a better note.

“I want to be able to go home from this and my kids to say, ‘How was it with dad?’ I’ll go, ‘It was awesome,’” Christine said of her choice to hang out with Kody at the racecar track. “They need to know that it’s completely fine to hang out with him. I’m hoping that today’s going to be a lot more fun than last night because this is what they need. They need to go have fun with their dad and not just sit and have a meal and have a conversation.”

Christine Brown couldn’t help but compare her relationship with ex-husband Kody Brown to David Woolley after David proposed in this week’s Sister Wives episode. “I’ve never felt like this before,” Christine, 52, told the cameras during the Sunday, November 17, episode of the TLC series after viewers watched her proposal to David, 60, play out […]

After spending time with Kody and David driving racecars in the desert, Christine confessed that her and Kody’s relationship is “fragile.” She said the meeting was “just the beginning of us getting in each other’s company again.”

Kody, for his part, told the cameras he felt hopeful that he and Christine will have “forgiveness, kindness, charity and moving on” in their relationship.

He later confided in a friend from Las Vegas that despite apologizing to his exes — with Meri next up on his list — he would “never trust them again” and he was “not interested in being their friends.”

“I trusted each one of my ex-wives with different things. I trusted certain things about Meri. I trusted certain things with Janelle. I trusted certain things with Christine,” Kody explained.

He revealed, “Trust has been murdered. We’re all guilty in that part,” adding that he needed to “forgive myself for my inability to figure that out.”

Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.