Sister Wives star Kody Brown has claimed that he only found out about ex Janelle Brown’s move to North Carolina by accident.

“I don’t know how to explain this. It was never intended for me to know that Janelle was moving,” the TLC star, 56, said in a preview clip of the upcoming episode of Sister Wives season 19 shared by People on Friday, January 31. “One of my children, at their admission, slipped up and told me.”

Kody added that his child, whom he did not name in the clip, asked him, “please don’t repeat that or pretend you never heard it.”

While Janelle, 55, did not say that she intentionally kept her move from Kody a secret, she did admit that she didn’t see a point in telling him.

“I didn’t tell Kody,” the Taeda Farms cofounder, who separated from Kody in December 2022, said in a confessional. “I didn’t see any reason to tell him. Our lives are not overlapping in any way. It just didn’t really feel like it was any of his business what I was doing.”

Earlier in the season, fans saw Janelle look at properties in Montana with daughter Maddie Brush (née Brown). While looking at one rural home, the certified health coach admitted that she loved how close it was to former sister wife Christine Brown, who split from Kody in November 2021.

“It’s about five hours from Christine and her children in the Salt Lake area. So that’s really good because that’s really the core group of the family,” she said, explaining that there’s “no contact really” with former sister wife Meri Brown or Kody and his last remaining wife, Robyn Brown.

“I don’t really foresee that’s going to change much,” she added.

Janelle did not settle down in Montana, but she and Maddie, 29, along with Maddie’s husband, Caleb Brush, did “put down permanent roots” in North Carolina, the TV personality revealed in December 2024.

“Not West Virginia but my new home,” Janelle wrote on Instagram alongside a video of a vacant plot of land. The clip was set to John Denver’s song “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”

“Finally putting down some permanent roots. Doesn’t look like much yet but it will. I like the wild feel that it has now and we are planning for many acres to stay that way for the benefit of the wildlife,” she continued.

Janelle also tagged Taeda Farms, the flower farm she founded with Maddie and Caleb, 38. The business shared an update on its progress in a January 22 Instagram post.

“Clearing the Way for Taeda Farm,” the caption read alongside a video of equipment taking down trees. “In our small town, word of mouth is gold — and that’s how we found Earl Brock, with Brock’s lot development. He is the skid steer whisperer and a storyteller extraordinaire. Imagine Barry Corbin with a Southern drawl, a tractor, and enough stories to keep you entertained for days.”

The post continued, “Earl rolled onto our land with a big grin and left us with clear space for a garden, chicken coop, and our future home. (Not to mention some very happy kids who think watching trees turn to mulch is the greatest show on Earth.”

Taeda Farms concluded, “He didn’t just clear the land — he gave us an afternoon of laughter, knowledge, and the kind of community connection that makes small-town life so special. Here’s to Earl, his skid steer, and the first big step in building our dream on Taeda Farm — one mulched tree at a time.”