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Kody Brown ‘spent a lot of family money’ towards the end of his marriage to Janelle
Kody Brown ‘spent a lot of family money’ towards the end of his marriage to Janelle
Kody Brown spent a lot of family money towards the end of his marriage to Janelle, she’s claiming. The Sister Wives star left him, following in the footsteps of Christine Brown: the first of four to call it quits.
Earlier this season of Sister Wives, Janelle Brown claimed Kody had been spreading lies about how much sway she had with their family finances. Now, she’s trying to make claims about his spending habits.
Kody Brown ‘spent a lot of family money’
Kody Brown has been spending a lot of family money, according to Janelle. It happened towards the end of their marriage, and the reason she knows is because she’s always handled the family’s bookkeeping.
In the early years of their marriage, “We weighed in on what bills should be paid, how we were going to pay, who got priority,” said Janelle, who married Kody in 1993, three years after he wed Meri Brown.
“And then the last several years, Kody would just take out funds and I don’t know what for,” said Janelle. She believes “the money was just being spent and lots of it,” but Kody said it wasn’t her business.
Janelle says she was ‘too trusting’ of him
While Janelle reckons she was “too trusting” of Kody during their marriage, he claims being a father to 18 children meant they “had a lot of places that money needed to go that weren’t always Janelle’s business.”
“Janelle was doing the bookkeeping so some of the bills to be paid by all of us, were supposed to be paid by her,” he continued, but Janelle has responded by saying Kody is creating a narrative about her.
“He loves this mantra that somehow I was the all powerful, one, with all the financial control,” she said of Kody. “I really was just the person who recorded the transactions and sent them to the CPA.”
Just a few months ago, Janelle said Kody claimed to “have all these other debts” and spoke about all the art on his walls, while Kody says all his money went on cars and insurance for the kids.
“I used to always be surprised at how nice her backyard was. It was completely finished. And there was always, like, stuff at her house. And I was like, ‘Wow. Huh,’” said Janelle in a confessional.
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