[Kody] Previously on Sister Wives..
I am driving to my buddy's wedding.
[Janelle] Kody and Robyn still observe
the very strict rules about COVID.
We're still not gathering as a family.
And yet here's Kody traveling.
And now I'm mad. What the hell?
Truth be told, Meri, she was talking about
leaving Kody before they moved to Flagstaff.
There's so much investment here in this family.
Hang on with me, okay?
Yeah.
She belongs with us.
We've been 12 years public trying to convince the world
that we have something legitimate.
Congratulations. You're leaving the family.
She's treated you like dirt from the very beginning.
That's the relationship you have with her.
And that's the reason I'm angry.
That's the reason I'm pissed off.
Now that she's leaving, I just felt like
giving her a piece of my mind with that leaving.
But accountability is what I've been asking for here.
And you are running away rather than being accountable.
[sobbing]
[Janelle] So I'm going over to talk to Christine,
'cause after the last conversation
we had when we were all together was pretty rough.
-[Christine] Hey. -[Janelle] Hey.
-[Christine] How's it going -[Janelle] Good.
Hi. Your shirt is super cute.
I know. I'm trying to decide if it's fall.
I was a little shocked at Kody's behavior.
He was just angry.
When we were talking all together Thursday, you know, that was a mess.
That was a terrible conversation. It was terrible.
I really thought it would go so much better kind of--
I was surprised.
And I thought, you know what?
Maybe it's okay 'cause everybody
needs to express their emotions.
And then he lost it.
She's treated you like dirt from the very beginning.
That's the relationship you have with her.
And that's the reason I'm angry.
That's the reason I'm pissed off is because...
you never tried to have really good relationship
with these other people.
That's not true. Yes, I did.
It is just vomiting out of me because I've sat here with it,
just like, "Christine, try and do this."
You wanted to renegotiate a relationship with me,
but you wouldn't even have a decent one with them.
I'm surprised 'cause I didn't realize
I wasn't giving Robyn a chance,
but I certainly never thought that I was being mean
or mistreating her in any way.
So I was so shocked at his aggression.
And I was expecting people to be hurt.
I was expecting it.
I didn't know that he'd be volatile
and I didn't-- but I didn't know what to say to him.
I'm like...
He has been like, it's been deep.
Like I've been watching him.
And he's just really, it's like he's been sort of
agitated and angry,
and I think he hasn't known how to express it.
And unfortunately, I think it all sort of came out like...
It surprised me 'cause he was so loud
and he was so angry.
The sacrifices that I made
to love you, wasted.
The timing seemed weird,
but I think it's just he reached his point.
It sounded the other day like you
just didn't even wanna see Robyn or Meri again.
And I think that's how Robyn felt,
like she walked away and was like,
"Okay, I guess see you."
And she was quite emotional.
No, I didn't mean it like a cut and dried, it's over.
That's not what I was trying to convey at all.
[Janelle] I am actually glad to know that because I think--
That's how it came across?
I don't know.
It was really hard telling Robyn,
"I didn't think that I could do more."
And, you know, after the conversation,
I realized she was talking about her kids, too.
You know, it sounds like feels continue to have the relationships
with the people you're close with and,
um, those that you weren't close with and, you know, just--
you just wanted to stay distant.
When I was questioning Christine
about whether or not
she wanted to have relationships
with those that she doesn't have relationships with,
I meant me and my kids.
That's devastating.
That was the hardest part of the conversation for me.
It was when I realized when it was over
what I had said.
And I don't know how to fix that.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out
how we navigate all of this now.
I think you and I will just take it as it comes
and we'll just figure things out.
'Cause, I mean, like now the relationships changed, right?
'Cause I know, like, look, you and I have done
plenty of complaining about each other.
Right. But--
Like we've said some very harsh things to Kody.
We've said harsh things about each other.
And so now it-- it's different?
I think it's totally different.
Now, it just seems like
we focus on the common experience and the kids.
I think that it's even more than that.
I think it's deeper than that for you and I.
I would consider you one of my best friends.
I don't know what label to put on mine and Janelle's relationship.
I don't know.
I-- I don't know.
It's just a right thing. I just don't know.
[Kody] I have always wanted my wive to have close relationships
and it's a tragedy to me now after all these years
and Christine trash-talking Janelle
for four years about the one house thing,
now Janelle and Christine have a better relationship?
I'm begging Janelle for a closer relationship.
It feels like she's rejecting that
and just choosing to have one with Christine.
[Christine] I think a heartache is hard and me leaving is hard.
And what does that mean for her?
And what does that mean for our relationship in the future?
And it's this whole sister wives word.
You know, if I'm not a wife am I still a sister wife?
And are we still sister wive when I'm not a wife?
You know, it's-- it's such a weird relationship
to navigate sometimes.
[Meri] You know, some days I'm really mad at Christine
for giving up on me, on us.
I don't think that
she's a sister wife.
You know, I think that you have to be married
to the same guy to be considered a sister wife.
I have-- I don't know how to not be on a side
or be perceived as being on a side.
Christine, like all my kids, remember all the history, that was...
All our holiday traditions,
a lot of 'em were you driving it.
And so they're struggling too to figure out
how to-- to be in both worlds.
They're not trying to choose sides.
And I imagine your kids aren't either.
-You know what I mean? -No.
No one should be picking sides.
I think it's sometimes it's like this, sometimes it's like that.
But that's not sides.
I am pulled in both directions,
so, I mean, equally strong.
I have my duty to my family.
You know, Robyn, Kody, Meri, I have a duty there,
but then I really wanna be with Christine and her kids at the holidays.
I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.
I can't choose a side without them saying,
"You chose a side."
Ever since Truely found out that we were divorced,
Kody has been always,
"Well, let's get her COVID tested every week.
Then I can take her every weekend
and she can just hang out and sleep over at Robyn's."
But she never has.
Like, she'll go over for a couple of hours
and that's all that she wants to do.
It's just a couple hours here and there.
So what would that look like?
-I mean, like, could she come back for the summer? -Yeah.
I don't think she would last the whole summer.
I don't even know if she last a weekend
'cause she's never spent the night away from me.
[Kody] When it comes to Truely, there's no doubt
I'm gonna have to travel to see her.
All the time we come when Christine won't even come
to Flagstaff anymore, I'm sure.
I don't know when that'll be, but I don't even know.
There are questions to be answered
that I don't have the answe
for right now regarding kind of my time with Truely.
Do you think you'll remarry?
Somebody else. Not Kody.
Kody, I'm like...
[Janelle] No, like, I mean, are you--
I'm open.
Well, what do you do when you're 50
and healthy?
You just can't be alone for the rest of your life.
So to me, that's like the logical thing.
Like what's next?
And I'm just gonna be nosey and I'm just gonna ask.
It's a whole new life.
-[Janelle] Look, it's a whole new life, Christine. -Yes.
I hope she remarries.
It's a very long time to be alone.
And I hope that I like the guy.
Like you're no longer married?
No.
-You're gonna live in a completely different place-- -[Christine] Yes.
...that we were lived in like a decade or more ago?
I know.
Everything is... like I'm starting over again.
It's so hard moving on, um,
and feeling okay all the time
'cause I know I'm not.
I know I'm changing so much
and I know I'm breaking so many hearts,
but I still know that it's the right decision.
[Kody] My heart is broken.
And that might be why I'm so angry
is because I'm not actually dealing with the emotion.
I'm-- I'm fighting it.
Look, I was planning to stay here all winter,
but what if I just go for six months into town
and just come back out here in April?
Why are we in this now?
Because, Kody, for four months, I've accomplished a lot.
So she's talking about going to an apartment. She's gonna pick a place.
She's gonna do without me.
She's gonna figure something out like that.
Like she's already got a place that she knows about.
Okay.
So even though I'm going through
all this divorce trauma with Christine
and I'm losing my head, I've still gotta actually
maintain the other relationships.
But I've gotta compartmentalize
because right now I've gotta go take care
of my relationship with Janelle and,
you know, make a place for us.
I gotta go help her do some RV stuff,
but I'm still in this fog of divorce.
It's a-- and it's messing with me a lot.
I don't even-- I can put it a jack under that
without even moving anything.
Does that help?
You know what I really wanna do?
I wanna level the axles.
-[Janelle] Okay. -And go off of that.
I've been really struggling the last few weeks
to keep the trailer level.
And what happens when the trailer is not level,
if they start having problem with my sewage tanks,
like, it's crazy.
If I had somebody here helping you, I would go away.
So I don't backseat drive you too badly.
[Kody] There's a lot of pressure with living in this RV.
A lot of new things have come up.
It's been almost daily for Janelle.
She's been rolling with it really good.
I think she's kept it pretty good attitude about i
But when we were working on together,
it's not like we're just being sweet with each other.
It's a little antagonistic.
Well, Janelle, would you wanna come and help me?
Would you hand me this rod?
Yeah.
[Janelle] Yeah. I don't think it's...
-The angle is wrong, right? -Well, it is.
I'm gonna have to get it up.
Damn thing has to be jacked up to get that in it.
And I can't see.
-So drive forward, maybe. -All right.
You and your eye insist on driving forward.
The stubbornness is fighting against me.
Okay. Because this isn't working, Kody.
It's so strange to me that we're arguing point, point with this.
It's like just this antagonistic relationship.
It is not cooperative.
I don't know why.
Well, I don't know if we manually level it.
I think it's just a piece of [bleep]
And they've-- they've sold us a lemon here
and we can't get the damn thing to level
'cause it's supposed to self-level and it never has.
Here's the thing.
I'm in a very vulnerable place,
and if I cross a line, will she cross another line
And that sort of cynicism comes,
I think, from unwinding 20 years in plural marriage
and then Christine leaving.
And then we've had so many more realistic conversations
that happened last year
between Kody and I on really
what our relationship really looks like
and the kind of marriage that we both want.
-And-- -And you guys don't talk, though.
You guys don't communicate, so I don't really see
how that could be even...
legitimate.
I don't think Janelle or I are being honest
or realistic in this relationship
as we communicate with each other about this stuff.
What a goat rodeo, right?
The whole RV thing, it's like we never had
a really deep discussion,
not the kind of discussion you have about
spending that vast amount of money.
She never even took any tim to look for something to ren
I know for a fact there were rentals out there.
[Janelle] I know I had told him I was thinking
about the possibility of an RV.
Maybe he just wasn't paying attention.
I mean, he really only sort of really tunes in once in a while.
It's not like he's here all the time.
And when he's here, he's not always really tuned in.
Here, like, look, look, look, look,
let me have this conversation with you now.
Okay, so I have about six weeks left on this permit
and I would have to move again.
And we talked to the house designer.
And she said that we're--
we're basically months for a permit.
Look, I was planning to stay here all winter,
A, when I thought we could have electricity
and B, when I thought the house would be
a little quicker along.
But what if I just go for six months into town
and just come back out here in April?
'Cause by then we will probably be breaking ground,
I would think.
So I think I've been looking and there is a place
in town that will do a six month lease.
So she's talking about going to an apartment.
She's gonna pick a place. She's gonna do without me.
She's gonna figure something out like that,
like she's already got a place that she knows about.
Okay.
Why are we in this now?
Because, Kody, for four months I have accomplished a lot.
We could have focused on the property
without having an RV and living in an RV.
Kody, I wanna come back out here in April.
I'm just rolling with the punches.
[chuckles] He's been very vocal.
He wanted me to buy Christine's house
'cause he thinks living in the trailer is terrible.
Like he's been like, all this--
like, all this stuff about, like,
this is a terrible, like, hate living here.
I don't wanna be here. I don't want blah, blah, blah.
And now all of a sudden, I'm like,
"Okay, well, how about if we can move into town for six months?"
And he's like, "No".
[Kody] Ooh. Yeah, baby!
Ooh. Told you that storm's coming right for us.
It's right there. It's right above us.
Well, I mean, I basically decided
what I needed to do for me, and I just sort of decided
and I did it, and he sort of had to be along for the ride.
But if I would have waited for him to solve the problem,
it never would have gotten solved.
It was all this work worth it?
I actually think it will be better.
Whoa. There's the rain.
[Christine] Hey, Truely, can you come here for a minute?
[Truely] Okay.
[Christine] Perfect. Thank you.
You know how the house is.
Our house is in contract right now.
-Mm-hmm. -Um, the owners are going to close on it.
They're gonna close on it, like, next month.
So we've been looking like crazy for a house in Utah.
Mykelti's been helping me and everything.
And we have the house.
But guess when we're moving.
Um, when?
In a week.
Oh.
I was going to wait to move until the closing date,
but Mykelti found a place.
Why wait to start the next chapter? Why wait?
And Mykelti and Tony are going gonna come
help us move, like in a week.
A week from today.
I mean, the hardest part of leaving
and moving is that I'm taking Truely with me.
I'm taking her from what she knows,
everything she knows from her dad,
you know, from the siblings that
she has here in Flagstaff,
I like moving her to Utah.
So what do you think about that?
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
I just didn't expect it to go this fast.
She's not excited about moving yet, but I just...
I know that moving with her is the best decision.
So how are you, really?
Are you sad to be leaving this soon?
And was it hard?
I just didn't expect it to be this soon, but I'm fine.
I mean, I thought we'd have another couple of weeks.
So did I.
I am relieved that Truely is taking it so well.
But it's just not about me.
It's about her.
I'm grateful for her because it's her life
that I didn't want to alter too much.
I didn't wanna traumatize too much, you know it's her life.
And so for her, her handling is so well, I'm thrilled with.
The work has begun.
I mean, we're gonna start packing a lot.
[Christine] You all right?
[Truely] Yeah. I'm fine.
You have anything else to say?
[Truely] Nope.
-So are you doing okay? -[Mykelti] Yeah.
As far as your mom and everything?
Like, it's sad anytime any kind of family breaks up or separates.
How long have you guys known?
She was talking about it.
I know that I can't [bleep] talk Christine to my kids.
I don't want to [bleep] talk her at all.
And that's a blame game that I'm playing.
And I feel ashamed that I'm doing that.
But in my brokenhearted state,
the anger is just flowing here.
[Robyn] Hi, sweet girl.
Hey, sweety.
We decided to come in town to help mom move
to northern Utah, but we wanted to be able to spend a day
with Robyn and the kids.
So we're here at Robyn's house, spending some time with them.
-[mumbles] -Go for it.
Yes, I do.
We'll see Robyn here and then we'll see Christine
and probably Janelle's family--
-Yeah, Janelle's boys are gonna-- -...when we start moving.
Janelle's boys are gonna come help us move tomorrow, um,
and then so we'll be able to see some more people.
Tony and I are really, really close to Robyn.
She was the first one to really, really
accept our relationship and--
If not the only at the beginning.
-Yeah, at the beginning she was the only one. -I know.
"Oh, you're not a polygamist." I said, "I still love you.
It's all right." That is not what it was.
Huh-uh! Solomon, man. Hello, man.
Hello, guys.
Put your jacket back on.
Mom said your jacket has to be on.
You have to wash your hands
before you can touch her, okay?
Because that's what we do with babies.
[Robyn] I'm so happy that Tony and Mykelti came to visit.
And there's a lot going on right now
with Christine leaving and then moving.
I just wanna do a check in.
Sol, Why don't you and, and just go in and change clothes?
Even though I know that I have 100% support from Mykelti,
I know that she also supports Robyn 100%.
She can balance like nobody I-- I know.
I'm so glad you came to see us.
-I'm glad we came too. -[Kody] Right back.
[Mykelti] It's nice.
With-- with, like, everything going on with your mom and stuff like that,
I just appreciate you coming and stuff.
[Mykelti] Yeah, of course.
I just wanna make sure that no matter what's happening...
there, we're good.
You're still mom, Robyn.
And Grandma.
So, like, that's my biggest thing
I just making sure that, like, we're all good.
We... Our relationship continues
and it's based on what goes on in our relationship.
It's not based on outside sources.
It feels like everything's, uh, affected my relationship
with everybody, though.
When it comes to, you know, like raising kids
and dealing with things like this,
I'm almost always bad cop.
And so my relationship, I feel like,
is somewhat strained with a lot of my kids.
Hey.
-So are you doing okay? -[Mykelti] Yeah.
As far as your mom and everything.
I mean, I think, the, the situation around it is, it's, it's sad.
Like it's sad any time any kind of family breaks up or separates.
[Robyn] Yeah.
But if it's what she wants, I think it's important
to support what she wants.
How long have you guys known?
Um, I think that, we as like known actually, it's been...
I mean, like, was she talking about it before?
She was talking about it.
She's been talking about it for a while.
But I think most of what she's been talking about
is what anybody talks about in a relationship,
the ups and the downs, the highs and the lows.
I know that I can't [bleep] talk Christine to my kids.
I don't want to [bleep] talk to her at all.
Even though that's my natural, my natural urge is to do that.
I have to control that because that's not fair.
I'm catching myself in this moment here,
when I'm saying, "How long have you guys known?"
And that's a blame game that I'm playing,
and I feel ashamed that I'm doing that.
But in my brokenhearted state,
the anger is just flowing here and nobody likes me.
She was in the most hardest of places a while ago.
And so she just, just through venting.
So we've known for a while now,
but we haven't known that it was like,
"Oh, okay, it's, it's, you know, it's happening.
You are separating.
-We haven't known for too long." -[Tony] Yeah.
Just that she wasn't the happiest.
-[Mykelti] Yeah. -I just don't think, okay.
I'm going through that, oh, oh, oh.
I just want to blame so, I'm angry,
I want to break something.
I just sort of was, I've always wondered
if I was like, the last to know.
Dad, you are, you're always, you're gonna be
the last to know. And in our any relationship.
No, but it's not that.
It's in a relationship with two people.
You're the last to know if somebody interests you
or if you or if somebody likes you.
You're the last to know.
If somebody dislikes you, you're the last to know.
-That's how all it... -I don't know, what you're talking about.
Tony would probably be the last to know
if I was, you know, leaving him.
-[Kody] No, I-- -Would I?
Probably. I mean, I probably tell my mom,
I talk about it with my family.
I talk about it with people who I want support.
[Kody] Then Tony--
I guess, I guess I would say you're probably not
first to know, but you're not last.
He's gotta know that their relationship is rocky.
They weren't in an okay place for years, honestly.
You know, sometimes you're just, you just don't see it.
-You said, now. -Babe, it's okay.
We're not gonna get divorced.
-You don't need to start denying it. -Ha!
I'm angry, but we don't need to deal with that.
But I don't want people picking sides.
I don't want to push you to pick sides
or anything like that.
-That's my point. -We feel safe.
I don't think there are any sides specifically to pick.
I don't feel like my dad asked me to pick sides at al
I feel exactly the same way about my mom.
She would want to make sure that no matter
what happens with her and my dad,
that I still have a strong relationship with both of them.
That's very important to both my parents.
I mean, again, it's not gonna make it our relationship,
yours, mine's, Tony's and yours
are three together relationship
doesn't change just because my mom's decided to leave dad.
It doesn't change it.
And you're still a mom.
You're my, you're my kids. I love you guys to pieces.
Ah, we love you too.
My girl and my boy.
In my head, my relationship with Christine is separate
from my relationship with her kids or any of the other kids.
I've asked her if she wants to have
a relationship with me,
if there's something we could figure out.
And she said that she doesn't want
to have a relationship.
And I have had to, you know, I'm coming to terms with that.
Do we just need to, like, give you your space?
Are you interested in some sort of a,
like trying to work stuff out maybe from the past how many years?
I think for right now I need space.
But right now.
I am open and interested in a relationship
with any of the kids or wives that want one.
It's what I've always wanted.
Is any of the family, are you guys going to like say,
anything like a goodbye?
Are they gonna drive by and wave?
Are we gonna go to dump toilets on their lawn?
Like, what are we doing? What's the plan?
No, I don't think we're doing anything like that.
My mom's honestly upset that I'm pushing her so much.
If you want to say something, that's, that's fine.
We'll just, I don't want to pressure anybody at all.
Um, I want to.
[Christine] We're going to just start moving and loading.
My crew is right now, Mykelti, Tony and Garrison
to help get everything loaded.
It's a manual open, huh?
It's a manual open.
Yeah, 'cause it's broken.
[Mykelti] Ms. Noel.
Hi, baby.
[Mykelti] Hi, Ms. Noel.
Are you peeing--
[Christine] Oh, peeing, good job, seeing out there?
-So nice. Thank you. -[Mykelti] Oh, watch out.
[Christine] Oh, wow. That was rude.
So when my mom told me.
That she and Dad were divorcing,
I was a little bit relieved
You know, to find out that she was finally getting out
because it wasn't a good relationship for her.
Not to be like a terrible child or anything.
But I've kind of felt like
they should separate for a while.
Like even before, um, like we moved to Las Vegas.
-Wow. -...just to say bit you.
Hi, baby girl.
Tomorrow we'll load up the last few things,
shut the truck and move away.
My mom has a lot of crap.
She has so much stuff.
[sighs]
-Mom, do you want to know something exciting? -[Christine] Yes.
We're gonna live 20 minutes away from each other.
Thank you for helping me find the house, by the way.
-You're welcome. -It was really fun driving around,
you know, all of Salt Lake area.
And it's new. We're the first people to live in it.
Yeah, Mykelti's just in charge.
Soon as Mykelti got here she just took over.
She took charge.
She's very good at reading me.
She knows I'm overwhelmed.
She knows, I'm like, all I need, I just need to go.
Okay. Based upon what we still have,
how much furniture do we still have upstairs?
[Christine] It's all boxes.
-It's all boxes and bins. -Oh my gosh, it's awesome.
[Mykelti] Do you guys want to walk the house real fast and see what's left?
I'm gonna have my mom walk through
the house one last time
because I think it'll be good for her to see
how much stuff we still have to load on the truck.
But also it's in a way, her leaving this house is just,
it's a really big door
closing on a massive chapter of her life.
[Christine] So, isn't it crazy up here?
[Mykelti] So empty?
I remember when we first moved in.
Well, when you guys first moved in here and how,
-like, this was just such a cool, hot room. -[Christine] Right.
This is where my bedroom was.
And when we first decided to get this house,
Kody and I came upstairs and we saw this view,
and he said, "I really want this house
and this needs to be our bedroom."
[Mykelti] Okay, So how does it feel?
Um, it's bittersweet 'cause I don't know.
The whole future is unknown.
So sometimes when I [exhales] it's bittersweet.
It's hard to say goodbye to our house.
I love this house and it's hard to say goodbye.
Um...
I don't know. It's a little scary, to be honest.
[Mykelti] But you're super excited for your new adventure?
Yes, very excited for my new adventure.
Sorry. It's hard to be up here.
It's hard to be in this room and in this space a little bit for me.
This was my room.
Kody and I have just had a lot of hard times in this room,
and I don't like to be in this space anymore.
[Mykelti] Yeah, you, Aspen and I will all be neighbors.
I know.
And I'll be like 45 minutes from my dad,
45 minutes from my mom, sisters, brothers.
-I'm so excited. -[Mykelti] Hmm-mm.
My dad, I talked to him on the phone yesterday and he goes,
"Hey, welcome home." I know.
[Mykelti] Oh, my God, that's so sweet.
I cried a little. I did.
I remember.
Like, when I first told my dad that I was leaving Kody,
he was really, really sad and really just--
it was hard for him because he loves Kody.
And so we just kind of table the conversation.
Yeah.
When my house had an offer and I found a rental.
My dad was one of the first people that I called
and he just said, "Welcome home."
I sold my entire bedroom furniture.
So the whole set.
[Mykelti] You end a marriage and you move on
and get new furniture.
Yeah.
You don't want to carry
the whole the bedroom set with you.
[Mykelti] I know. So I got rid of it.
I think that it's really safe and healthy,
when you end a marriage or when you end anything
to get rid of everything that you have emotional connections to.
Because when it's over, if you still have pieces left
from it, you can never truly move on.
-Oh, sorry. You want to... want to get. -[Christine] All right.
I think that let's just call it a day for now.
We have just a few, let's just finish--
We've scratched more than the surface.
[Christine] Yeah.
So the morning we'll like just finish doing everything.
Get the mattresses out in the morning
and let's just call it a day.
[Mykelti] So, ah, is any of the family...
Are you guys gonna do anything, anything like a goodbye,
or is the family gonna come over
for socially distanced breakfast outside tomorrow?
Are they gonna drive by and wave?
Are we gonna go to dump toilets on their lawn?
Like, what are we doing? What's the plan?
No, I don't think we're doing anything like that.
Nobody's gonna come over and say bye?
I don't think so.
-No one said anything. -I think that's stupid.
I told all the adults that I was packing up and leaving tomorrow,
and I don't know what to do.
What do you want me to do?
This is your last night here.
If they wanted to come over, it would be great.
I want my mom to have to have everybody say goodbye to her,
because it's not like she's
Yes, she's divorcing my dad,
but she's not saying, okay, peace out.
I'm done with every single one of you.
[Christine] I think, if you want to say something, that's fine.
But keep it to the Flagstaff family.
-Then you don't have a-- -[Mykelti] ...flagstaff family.
If you want to say something, that's, that's fine.
We'll just-- I don't want to pressure anybody at all.
I want to.
My mom's honestly upset that I'm pushing her
so much to have people come over and say goodbye
because my mom wants to be done.
But I think that she'll regret it,
if she doesn't get a goodbye.
And I think so will they,
though, regret not saying goodbye just as much as she will.
And it'll make us both, everybody can't look back
on this moment and be happy for my mom.
-Hey. Yep. -Okay. We're done.
-Yeah, we're-- -Let's call it quits for the...
-Let's do it. -I'm tired.
Okay, that sounds great.
I'm leaving in five minutes.
This is such an awkward moment.
Bye Christine, good luck.
[Christine] Bye, thank you.
So it's very apparent how awkward we all are.
But Janelle and her kids are on one side
and Robyn and Kody are on the other,
and none of us wanted to be here.
You guys, thank you for coming.
Hey, it means a lot to me that you came.
[sobbing]
Um, one of my big things with my mom leaving the family is,
I didn't want it to create this
massive divide in my family that would make it
so the siblings wouldn't talk to each other
or the parents wouldn't talk to each other.
So it was really important to me
for everybody to come say goodbye to my mom.
Hold my hand.
Okay. Hold my hand, sweetie.
All right.
[Robyn] Today, um, I know th Christine is leaving...
Uh...
Kind of based on what she told me when she talked to us
about how she was going to move.
I felt it best for us
not to get in the way, say anything,
say goodbye or anything like that.
I was just gonna just stay out of the way.
[Kody whistling]
[Kody] I thought there was a party.
I guess not.
[Ariella speaking]
[Kody] You want to.
-We can't go in the house. -[Ariella speaking]
[Kody] We're 'cause we got to be COVID Social distanced.
And then Mykelti called me and she was like, Robyn,
I think it would be best if you came
and you guys came and say goodbye.
Yeah.
It's raining.
I'm leaving in five minutes.
Hi, everybody.
[Christine] Oh, gosh. That was terrifying.
We're outside right now.
[Christine] Oh, nice. In the backyard.
Yes. Let's go.
I'm not in a good place here, I...
Christine's leaving. I didn't want to... Oh, gosh.
This is such an awkward moment.
There is such a strike
to all my feelings
and all the work that I've done for our family to come here
to sort of have this family gathering and say goodbye,
that is way off course for me, way off the charts.
It's not, it's not even right.
It feels so,
demeaning.
And bless Mykelti's heart.
She wants to affirm that the family is still a family
And I'm in this sort of weird place where, you know,
I'm like, thinking, I don't want to see Christine ever again.
I don't want to think about her.
I don't want to drive past this house ever again
and mourn this.
I don't want to sit and be in this place again.
I don't want to deal with this at all.
[Janelle] Hi, honey.
[Gabriel] What's up, guys.
[indistinct chatter]
[Janelle] We love you.
I'm not really sad about Dad and Christine breaking up.
I'm really sad that Christine is moving.
I'm not gonna, like, sit here
and blame her for doing it like.
If I was in her shoes, I would do the same.
[Meri] The real reason why I was not there.
The actual reason was because I was out of tow
I was up at my B&B, and also,
I don't know how weird it would have been,
if I was knowing that
she really wasn't interested in
having a relationship with me.
So why be there and do some big goodbye?
[Kody] Oh, there we go.
[Truely] Oh, ta-ta.
[Kody] Yep. Turned on.
[Christine] Okay.
[Mykelti] Oh, it's about to... Oh, it's about to rain.
-[Christine] Okay. -[Kody] Hope it's about to rain.
[Christine] Tut, tut.
Hey Truely. Truely, come here honey.
-[Kody] Hey, Truely. -You got to keep the distance.
Hi, everyone.
[Mykelti] It's awkward outside.
It's weird. It's intense.
Nobody really wants to be here.
Dad doesn't want to be here. Robyn doesn't want to be here.
Mom doesn't want to be here. It's weird.
It's definitely, it's intense and it's uncomfortable.
And sick.
[Kody] Truely. Hey.
Are you okay that you're moving tomorrow?
Yeah. Are you excited?
-Yeah. -Okay.
All right.
You know, once again, I'm...
I, in my my state of bitterness.
I'm trying to box Christine in.
I think, I think she's doing something wrong.
-You sure? -Mm-hmm.
Where's your smile?
No smiles about it, huh?
Sorry.
All right, well.
I don't know. She could have stayed here.
She could have stayed in this house.
And very likely
Gwendlyn and Isabel might have stayed here as well.
I don't know.
It just feels like and I'm,
I'm in a really bad state of mind.
I feel like my life is being unravelled for me.
This isn't something I want.
I feel out of control.
Thanks for coming, guys.
I appreciate it.
-It means a lot. -This is fun.
It's bittersweet, but it's, it's nice that, like,
we're all here and we can all, um,
be here together,
like, the last night that Mom's here in Flagstaff.
So I'm really glad.
Like, I think this is probably something
that's one of the hardest things that this family
is gonna have to go through.
But I think that it's awesome that we can all be here
to show that at the end of this all,
we are still a family.
So there's no one to blame for any of this.
It's all just, it is what it is.
And we should just all be grateful
that even through this,
we can remain, we can remain a family
and we can remain together and that we can support
each other still through all of it.
And I just what I think, I'm glad you guys are all here,
because I think it's good to say goodbye to the...
[Janelle] This chapter.
[Mykelti] ...this chapter. It's good to say good bye.
You said exactly what was in my heart
without I didn't know how to say it.
So thank you.
So it's very apparent how awkward we all are.
But Janelle and her kids are on one side
and Robyn and Kody are on the other.
And...
none of us wanted to be here.
-Bye, Christine. Goodluck. -[Christine] Bye. Thank you.
-Bye. -[Christine] Bye. Thank you.
[Ariella speaking]
We just weren't in love anymore.
You know, that happens sometimes.
But we'll still hang out sometimes.
-We just weren't in love. -[Ariella speaking]
Oh, well, it doesn't always fix everything,
my love, but thank you.
What a good idea.
[Ariella speaking]
Not unlike all my children
imposing your view on the rest of us.
That's okay. It's good.
They have strong opinions because this world beats them
down fast enough.
It's awkward, you know, when Ari's asking
why I'm leaving, I know everybody wonders, you know,
she's just a kid, so she's brave enough to ask.
[Mykelti] All right, You guys are awesome.
-[Christine] Thank you. -[Kody] All right.
[Mykelti] I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Okay. Safe travels, will see you.
-[Robyn] Thanks. -[Kody] I just only me.
Only me. Only me. Okay.
All right. We'll see you, sweetheart.
I love you.
Have a good trip. Okay.
All right.
Your phone has video chat, and you and I can video chat.
-Okay. -Okay.
-All right.
-Got it. -Love you.
[Robyn] Truely, we love you.
I'm gonna miss you.
And I hope to see you soon, sweetie.
There everybody's really angry.
And, um, it just seemed lik Robyn's kids were angry, too
That was the hardest part, is that her kids are angry, too.
No, my kids weren't angry with her.
Um...
They're sort of the innocen parties in all of this.
All of the kids are.
It's just devastating.
Just devastating.
All right. Thanks to... you guys, thank you for coming.
Hey, it means a lot to me that you came.
[sobbing]
[Kody] All right, you guys needed that.
I wouldn't have asked for this.
I didn't ask for, like, having them all come over.
It was important for Mykelti and for her
and for everybody to see Truely probably was.
But I certainly didn't need it.
It's worse than I thought it would have been.
[Christine] Thank you.
[Christine sobbing]
[Christine] Thank you.
[Janelle] New chapters.
[Christine] Okay. Gosh.
I think this was the worst goodbye
that I've ever witnessed.
-[woman 1] Love you guys. -[woman 2] Thanks.
-We're out of here. -[Ariella] Bye!
-[Christine] Bye. Thanks. -[woman 3] That was a nice hat.
[Christine] Bye. Love you.
[indistinct chatter]
[narrator] Next time on Sister Wives..
So, I am moving today. It's, yeah!
To new beginnings, right?
New beginnings.
All of a sudden my whole world looks different.
She's called me a lot of things.
I think she called me a coward once.
But what I didn't do was, I didn't quit.
You ready to go see our new house?
I have a lot of emotions about Christine leaving.
Sadness, anger, even.
I don't think any of us kno what goes on now.
We're just gonna have to make it up.
Her offer didn't go through on the house.
-Yeah. -Why don't we buy it?
We buy the house, build on Coyote Pass.
We rent this house.
I want my own house.
I don't want to live in an RV.
Men, don't love people who don't respect them.
I'm not gonna break my back when you don't respect me.