Sister Wives’ Janelle Brown Insists “There Was No Backdoor Deal” With Ex Kody Brown in Coyote Pass Sale

Kody Brown Considered Selling Coyote Pass Without Meri Brown’s Sign-Off

Things got a bit wild as the family worked to unload their Arizona property, Coyote Pass. To hear Kody tell it, Janelle attempted to plunge that metaphorical knife in Meri’s kidneys, suggesting they sell the land without her sign-off. 

“Janelle came to me with the idea you can force the sale on this,” Kody detailed to host Sukanya Krishnan during the first part of the season-ending One-on-One special Jan. 11, “and then started pressuring me.”

Admittedly, with Meri stalling over signing the paperwork, Kody shared, “I was getting frustrated enough to just sell the property and then I’ll distribute money at my convenience.”

And, according to him, Janelle was on board, asserting she felt she’d get her share at least.

“Janelle just wanted to be paid,” Kody explained. “She was worried about losing the buyer, you know, and I’m like, this property is so rare that its price isn’t going to go down.” 

But that’s not exactly how the exchange went down, Janelle insisted. 

“All I can do is be responsible for what I know I said—I can’t be responsible for how they perceived or what they think,” she explained of the situation. “My lawyers had said, ‘You might want to consider just trying to get the sale to go through.’ And I told Kody that I had been advised that, but that I really wanted to try to get this to work out.”