Sister Wives stars Kody Brown and Janelle Brown are now not married however after the demise of their son Garrison, they’ve been united of their grief.
“Janelle and I are deeply saddened to announce the lack of our lovely boy Robert Garrison Brown,” Kody wrote in a joint Instagram assertion with Janelle in March 2024. “He was a vivid spot within the lives of all who knew him. Our loss will depart such a giant gap in our lives, that it takes our breath away. We ask that you just please respect our privateness and be part of us in honoring his reminiscence.”
The previous couple’s assertion got here shortly after Us Weekly confirmed Garrison died by suicide on the age of 25. (Kody and Janelle, who break up in 2022, share six youngsters together with Garrison.)
Since Garrison’s passing, Janelle has been vocal on social media about her ups and downs with grief. Kody, in the meantime, expressed his heartbreak on a number of episodes of Sister Wives, season 19 of which documented the household’s preliminary reactions and eventual burying of Garrison.
Courtesy of Janelle Brown/Instagram Janelle Brown is remembering her late son Garrison Brown six months after his demise. “Six months in the past immediately you went away. You come up in my picture recollections nearly on daily basis. Typically it doesn’t appear to be you’re gone,” Janelle, 55, captioned a photograph of herself and Garrison by way of Instagram on Thursday, […]
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Coming Out of the Fog
“It’s been exhausting to get my mind to work correctly once more,” Janelle defined by way of Instagram in March 2024, sharing photographs from Garrison’s celebration of life. “I’m so grateful for the outpouring of affection and help I’ve obtained these final three weeks. The help has been overwhelming. I’m honored.”
Heavenly Birthday
“Pleased Birthday Sweetheart,” Janelle captioned an Instagram put up in April 2024 on what would have been her son’s twenty sixth birthday. “We’re lacking you terribly immediately. It’s exhausting to imagine you aren’t right here anymore.”
She shared, “We talked lots about you immediately and even went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner (your favourite place 😀) I nonetheless really feel you close by typically. And I’m grateful we’ll see one another once more when my journey is accomplished.”
Janelle Brown and Garrison Brown. Courtesy of Garrison Brown/Instagram
Mom’s Day Recollections
Janelle revealed in Could 2024 that she “felt the grief so near the floor” whereas celebrating her first Mom’s Day with out Garrison. “It was particularly poignant once I made this easy pie,” she wrote by way of social media. “Our strawberry selecting tour mixed with the truth that I randomly discovered rhubarb on the native farmers market made it really feel like this pie was destined.”
Janelle continued: “Possibly nobody cherished it greater than Garrison. And that made this pie slightly bittersweet. I really like you honey and miss you on daily basis.”
Getting Via It
“Day-after-day is a day,” Janelle solely advised Us on the Us Weekly + Pluto TV Actuality Stars of the 12 months Get together on the Dream Lodge in October 2024. “You simply take it sooner or later at a time, one second at a time.”
She defined, “I simply assume you do what you may to help psychological well being, particularly males’s psychological well being. And we simply continued to attempt to honor him and bear in mind him.”
1 12 months
Janelle mourned her son in March 2025 on the anniversary of his demise, revealing by way of Instagram, “I keep busy however in EVERY quiet second you’re firstly in my ideas. It’s been a yr child. We miss you a lot. I miss you a lot.”
Gone Too Quickly
Sister Wives documented the household’s response to Garrison’s demise throughout a Could 2025 episode, together with Kody’s response to the information. “Grief is available in waves. It simply wasn’t presupposed to be this manner. You recognize what I’m saying?” Kody stated in the course of the Could 4 episode. “It’s simply heartbreaking.”
He confessed, “I didn’t get an opportunity to actually simply make issues proper, simply not having the ability to say goodbye.”
After butting heads with Garrison previous to his demise over his COVID-19 guidelines, Kody confessed, “It’s, like, I’ve received to do one thing totally different as a result of I may have had extra time with him, and I assumed there could be extra time. Everyone thinks they received extra time.”
Kody broke right down to spouse Robyn Brown, asking, “How am I going to do that? How do I do the remainder of my life with each vacation and each birthday?”
Garrison Brown. Courtesy of Garrison Brown/Instagram
Final Dialog
Throughout the identical Could 2025 Sister Wives episode, Janelle recalled the hours earlier than Garrison died. She remembered texting and speaking with him all through the day and when he stopped round 8 p.m., Janelle requested his brothers to verify in on him after which she went to mattress.
She woke as much as a name from her son Gabriel Brown telling her that Garrison was useless. “I don’t know what occurred that evening he did that as a result of he’s had different nights like this the place he would drink after which move out and he would go form of radio silent, however he’d be again within the morning,” Janelle defined. “I don’t know what occurred this time.”
Janelle later advised her sister Carrie that Garrison had “nervousness and melancholy after which he began consuming as a solution to type of soothe that” in the course of the coronavirus pandemic. “After which simply grew to become the animal he couldn’t come up with. We did all the pieces we may. And I do know that,” she concluded.
Brotherly Love
Janelle recalled throughout a Could 2025 episode of Sister Wives that Garrison was “very a lot concerned with the younger youngsters.” She fondly remembered him being “very aware” of Kody and Christine Brown’s youngest daughter, Truely.
“Robyn would remark that he would come over on daily basis to see Sol and Ari,” Janelle defined within the Could 11 episode, referring to Kody and his fourth spouse’s two youngsters, Solomon and Ariella. Janelle gushed, “He was at all times very a lot about his youthful siblings.”
Overcome By Anxiousness
Throughout the identical Could 2025 TLC episode, Kody detailed his want to take Garrison’s ashes and bury them in his ancestral state of Wyoming as a type of “pilgrimage.”
“Typically out of the blue, out of the blue, it’ll overcome me. Virtually, like, some form of nervousness assault,” Kody stated of the method. “Only a deep, overwhelming feeling that I’ll by no means see him once more. There’s a lot left unsaid, a lot left undone.”
He famous that so as to mourn, he deliberate to bury Garrison “subsequent to his grandma and his grandpa and, you understand, simply form of … end the circle.” Kody teared up, saying, “I used to be the primary one which held him. That is my son. I rocked him to sleep. That is a part of my mourning course of.”
Digging the Grave
“I talked to the sexton of the cemetery and he’s the one that will usually dig the graves,” Kody defined in a separate Could 2025 episode of Sister Wives. “And I simply requested him permission if I may dig it. It means one thing to me. I don’t know why.”
Kody proceeded to dig Garrison’s grave in an “outdated west nation cemetery” in Wyoming, calling it, “One of the crucial essential issues I’ve ever carried out.” He revealed, “It’s the final ode to my boy. … That is my responsibility, my job.”