“There’s Christine leaving and her divorcing Kody is — there’s a lot of tension going on. Now they’re talking about doing Christmas separate," she continued. “It’s just like this whole new worry and heartbreak and stress about whether or not we’ll not be together for Christmas, but it’s still horrible to sit and think about."
“It’s scaring me, it’s stressing me out a lot,” she added of the family’s 2022 holiday plans, which were put on display during Sunday’s episode.
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However, things took a turn during the COVID-19 outbreak when Kody — who isfather to 18 childrenfrom his four marriages — implemented strict rules on his family, prompting some of their issues to get “amplified.”
After expected ups and downs from a family as large as theirs, some challenges proved to be too much for some of the parties involved.
The strain carried over into season 18 as the split weighed heavy on the once-happy family.
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The head of the household added that because everyone made their own decisions, it “frustrates” him when certain people then act like “victims.
During the show, Janelle also noted that she never foresaw her getting a new RV home as something that would put “even more strain” on their family.
“I thought we’d have this grand adventure. I didn’t anticipate it would be so hard,” she shared in a confessional. “When it wasn’t all easy and it wasn’t comfortable and it was hard, I think Kody really got disillusioned very fast. And it was really easy to blame me for this.”
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