Sister Wives’ Janelle and Maddie Reflect on Hopes to Relocate Garrison, Preparing His Home After Death

Maddie Brush (née Brown) mentioned she was “trying” to get late brother Garrison to maneuver to North Carolina throughout a Sister Wives episode during which their mother, Janelle Brown, shared how they ready his dwelling to be packed up within the wake of his tragic loss of life.

Garrison’s older sister, 29, and her husband, Caleb Brush, revealed they have been attempting to influence Garrison to relocate from Flagstaff, Arizona, to be nearer to them in North Carolina main as much as his passing.

“I was trying to get him to move out here,” Maddie shared throughout her confessional interview on the Sunday, Could 4, episode. “And so every step that we get closer to it, we talked a lot about that.”

“We almost had him here too,” Caleb, 38, added. “He was almost coming.”

Maddie replied, “I think he was just so deep in.”

Garrison was tragically discovered lifeless in his Flagstaff house on account of an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 5, 2024. Janelle, 56, known as Maddie to inform her the devastating information.

“There’s a few moments in your life that I feel like alter your brain chemistry, and I definitely feel like calling siblings that a sibling had died definitely alters your brain chemistry,” Maddie mentioned in hindsight.

Janelle now resides in North Carolina not too removed from Maddie and her brood as they work on constructing Taeda Farms, “a sanctuary where people can gather, connect, and find solace in the beauty of nature,” per their web site.

In one other heartbreaking scene together with her sister Carrie, Janelle mentioned she was making ready his dwelling to be sorted by following Garrison’s passing.

“Now I have the big job of getting his house ready and all that stuff,” she mentioned, referring to the property the place Garrison lived.

Carrie replied, “Well, with closing the house and the kids moving out and selling everything, that kind of closes that chapter.”

Janelle spoke additional about her grief journey whereas explaining how the ache is available in waves. “Sometimes it catches you at a more raw moment for sure,” she mentioned. “I’m glad that I’m here now vs. still in Flagstaff.”

Garrison was considered one of Kody Brown and second spouse Janelle’s six kids. Janelle and Kody, 56, separated in December 2022.

In the course of the emotional episode, Janelle recalled shedding her beloved son so abruptly, revealing it was an especially distressing time for the household.

“I don’t know what happened,” Janelle shared. “He was never a drinking kid. He didn’t like the taste of it. And he started to drink during COVID and something happened in this last year and it really just got him.”

“We had offered him all the love, all the support, all the help, all the resources,” she continued. “I don’t know what happened that night he did that because he’s had other nights like this where he would drink and then pass out and he would go kind of radio silent, but he’d be back in the morning.”

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