Kody Brown declares himself 'the devil' in new 'Sister Wives' trailer as two of his wives prepare to leave the family

• Meri and Janelle Brown will prepare to leave Kody in "Sister Wives" season 18, per TLC's trailer.
• Garrison, one of Kody's sons, says that he and his siblings "don't need a father figure anymore."

Kody Brown feels like he's watching his family spiral downward to hell, according to his confessional featured in the teaser trailer for season 18 of TLC's "Sister Wives," released Thursday.

"I should just be the devil I think I am now," he tells the camera at one point toward the end of the clip.

Since Kody and his former wife Christine Brown told the world they were separating in November 2021, the world has watched Kody's polygamous family slowly unravel. Last season, Christine moved from Arizona to Utah to be closer to her children as she and Kody navigated their complicated new post-split dynamic.

And if the trailer below is any indication, in season 18 fans of the show will see what happened after Kody's first wife Meri Brown and his second wife Janelle Brown decided it was their turn to leave him too.

"I'm growing and I need something different, like I don't want to be married anymore," Janelle tells a visibly shocked Christine during one scene featured in the trailer.

Meri is initially shown telling Kody she has "hope" for their relationship, but in a scene midway through the trailer, she tells him and his fourth wife Robyn Brown, "I just wanted you to know I'm not gonna be around anymore. It's not what I want."

A distraught Robyn cries because she "wanted to sit on a porch with my sister wives with our kids and our grandkids."

But some of Janelle's kids appear fine with the news she's leaving Kody. Her son Garrison Brown declares in the trailer that he and his siblings "don't need a father figure anymore."

In the final scene of the trailer, after a brief attempt to get Kody to stay in her house and talk about their relationship, Janelle asks, "Okay, so we're done? Fuck you."

Followers of the Brown family already know that Robyn is currently the only wife left in the family that's romantically involved with Kody. In December 2022, Janelle and Kody announced they were "separated." Meri followed suit, announcing that the couple ended their "marriage relationship" in January 2023.

It's unclear if Janelle and Kody officially consider themselves divorced, but they will not have to go through legal proceedings because they were never legally married.

Fans will get to watch it all play out when season 18 of "Sister Wives" premieres August 20 on TLC.