Janelle questioned how Kody handled the family’s money
Touching on the family’s inability to pay off Coyote Pass, Janelle said Kody claimed to have “all these other debts.” And yet she has seen him snap up other assets like trailers and home furnishings. “I see all the art on their walls,” she said of Robyn and Kody’s home. “I see all these things. And it’s good, I have money and I’ve spent it on things too.” (For his part, Kody said much of his money went into buying cars — “basically had a fleet” — and insurance for the kids.)
And while Janelle admitted she wasn’t sure how Kody and Robyn handled their finances, “before, I was always amazed at how nice her backyard was. It was completely finished. And there was always, like, stuff at her house. And I was like “Wow.”
Bottom line, she said, “He doesn’t prioritize what I need or what I want.” And that problem wore her down in the end. “I think after a while I started to see it, and my kids did very angry about it, like my grown children. Like “What the hell, Mom?”
However, Robyn’s view was that she was very careful with her budget after her first marriage broke up.
“I used to not be very good with money,” she shared during the Sept. 22 episode. “When I was young I got hit hard, and then during my divorce I learned how to budget myself very, very well.” As for her fellow sister-wives, she said: “You just had to have a different priority of where your money was going than I did, that’s all.”
