- Christine and Kody Brown argued about custody of their daughter Truely on Sunday's "Sister Wives."
- Christine said it would be "hard" to take Truely from Kody and move to Utah.
TLC's "Sister Wives" star Christine Brown finally told Kody Brown's three remaining wives that she was leaving him and moving to Utah on Sunday's episode, which was presumably filmed in spring 2021.
With the announcement came a discussion of a custody arrangement for Christine and Kody's youngest daughter, 12-year-old Truely — and Christine made her feelings about the situation clear.
In response to Kody's second wife Janelle Brown asking about Truely, Christine said, "I think Truely's gonna be fine. She'll miss everybody, of course, and it's gonna be hard. And taking her from Kody is hard. It's hard, don't get me wrong."
Kody immediately took issue with Christine's phrasing. "Oh no, you can't take her from me," he said. "Because we'll have to have a shared custody. It'll have to be 50/50."
In a confessional interview, he said that though they had yet to discuss a custody agreement, he couldn't let Christine share her plan without "objecting to it."
The exes then argued about Christine's plan to move with Truely. Though Christine appeared to believe that Kody had accepted the fact that she was going to live in Utah, which they discussed in earlier episodes this season, he told her he "never said it was okay" with him.
"You never asked if you could move, you said you were moving," Kody explained.
He told Christine that the first time she said she was leaving him, she didn't mention moving. He added that him accepting that she was leaving the marriage didn't mean she could just "run with Truely and all of a sudden Truely's out of my life."
In a confessional interview on Sunday's episode, Kody explained his frustration with Christine to the cameras. "From the beginning of this, she didn't ask me if I was okay if I didn't stay at her house — she just told me not to," he said. "She didn't ask me if it was okay if she moved my stuff out, she just did it."
"She didn't ask me if it was okay if she moved to Utah and took Truely, she just told me she was gonna do it," he continued. The couple announced to the public that their "spiritual" marriage was ending after more than 25 years in November 2021.
As his conversation with Christine continued, he told her she "can't actually stop" him from being a part of Truely's life.
Details of a potential visitation plan were not discussed on the episode, but in a confessional interview, Christine implied that she was not in favor of splitting her time with Truely equally.
"I find it ironic that now he wants to be involved in my kids' lives, now that I'm leaving. Now he wants 50/50 time with them?" she said. "Well hell, he could've had 50/50 time with us the whole fucking time we lived here. If he wanted 50/50, he should've been around more."
"He doesn't get 50/50. He hasn't been around enough for that," she added.
Christine's announcement to Kody's three wives and her argument with Kody over Truely came around the same time the exes were also fighting about Kody's reluctance to visit their then-18-year-old daughter Ysabel at Christine's home because she was returning to high school in person for her senior year.
On the segment of Sunday's episode about Ysabel, Kody said "she'll be fine" without seeing him her senior year. The teenager had plans to move to North Carolina upon graduation.
New episodes of "Sister Wives" air Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.