'Sister Wives' star Janelle Brown admits she's 'stuck' in her marriage to Kody: 'Financially, I have nothing'

• Janelle Brown got emotional thinking about her future after a big fight with Kody on Sunday's "Sister Wives."
• "Financially, I have nothing," Janelle says in a self-taped confessional on the episode.

On Sunday's episode of TLC's "Sister Wives," Janelle Brown gets uncharacteristically emotional while explaining to cameras why she feels "stuck" in her marriage to Kody Brown.

The September 3 episode of "Sister Wives," which TLC confirmed to Insider was filmed in December 2021, depicted a big fight between Janelle and Kody. In the latest episode, Janelle, who previously told People that this fight was the breaking point in their relationship, nearly breaks down in tears in a self-taped confessional.

"I don't know who this guy is," Janelle shakily says of her then-husband in a confessional. "Maybe this is who he always was, I don't know. But I don't recognize this very mean person."

"I'm stuck, I'm stuck. Financially, I have nothing," she continues.

Before leaving their plural marriage, Janelle was Kody's second of four wives. The couple "spiritually" married in 1993, and Janelle has six adult children with Kody: Logan Brown, 29, Madison Brush, 27, Hunter Brown, 26, Robert Garrison Brown, 25, Gabriel Brown, 21, and Savanah, 18.

In her confessional on Sunday's episode, Janelle goes on to explain that unlike her former sister wife, Christine Brown — who profited from selling her house when she left Kody in November 2021 — she has no financial assets in her own name.

As seen on previous episodes of "Sister Wives," Janelle didn't buy a house when the family moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, in 2018. Instead, she rented a home, in the hopes that it would motivate Kody and the rest of the Brown family to build houses on Coyote Pass, their plot of land, faster.

In June 2021, she moved out of her first rental and began living in an RV on Coyote Pass with her youngest child, Savanah Brown, until the winter weather made their situation untenable and she had to rent another apartment in downtown Flagstaff.

"I can't believe I'm 50 and I can't even do my own thing 'cause I'm so tied up with them financially," Janelle tearfully says on Sunday's episode. "I'm stuck. I can't believe I got myself into this position. How dumb is that? I know better."

Despite Janelle's worry over her financial situation, she did ultimately leave Kody. Janelle announced that she and Kody were "separated" in a "Sister Wives" tell-all special for season 17, which aired in December 2022. About eight months later, ahead of the "Sister Wives" season 18 premiere, she told People she considered her marriage to Kody over.

New episodes of "Sister Wives" air Sundays at 10 p.m ET on TLC.