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Sister Wives steered away from the drama between Kody Brown and his spouses on Sunday night time
The fact present centered, as a substitute, on the shared heartbreak between these members of the family because it pertains to the final word tragedy:
Garrison Brown took his personal life in March 2024 through a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
This newest episode took followers behind the scenes of what transpired proper earlier than this terrible improvement.
We nonetheless can’t imagine Garrison Brown took his personal life. RIP. (Instagram)
For mom Janelle, she remembered texting her son “all day long” whereas she was touring again to Flagstaff after having relocated to North Carolina.
“This was not unusual because he and I talked probably three times a day,” the 55-year outdated defined, persevering with as follows:
“I knew he was struggling. I all the time simply picked up the cellphone and I all the time make it some extent to simply discuss to him. And it wasn’t actually about something.
“I think he needed the connection, and I know he was talking to [and] calling his brothers and stuff too.”
Garrison Brown is featured right here on an outdated episode of Sister Wives. (TLC)
The night time earlier than she realized what occurred, Janelle recalled mendacity down in mattress round 8:30 p.m. and noticing that Garrison “kind of stopped texting me.”
This was troubling.
Janelle knew her son had been “been drinking again,” she stated on air.
“He would undergo durations the place he was actually good, after which he simply would have a binge, simply as a part of the cycle, I feel.
“So I called [my sons] Logan and Hunter. I texted them … because we’ve tag-teamed. I said, ‘Will you guys see if Garrison will respond to you?’ They said, ‘Mom, we’re on it. We’ll just kind of check on him and make sure he’s okay.’”
Janelle Brown appears very disturbed on this picture. (TLC)
As has been documented up to now, Garrison’s brother, Gabe, went over to his sibling’s dwelling to verify on Garrison… and found his corpse.
“Gabriel known as me and he’s like, ‘Mom, he’s gone.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’” Janelle said on this episode, talking for the first time about how she learned about her son’s suicide.
Shops confirmed on March 5, 2024 that Garrison was discovered useless at age 25.
On the time, Lieutenant Charles M. Hernandez II of the Flagstaff Police Division stated that “Flagstaff Police officers responded to a report of a death inside a home” and “discovered Mr. Brown deceased.”
Garrison Brown is pictured right here on an episode of Sister Wives. (TLC)
Forward of his passing, Janelle famous that Garrison “really struggled with alcohol.”
Relatedly, authorities famous the 25-year outdated’s very excessive blood-alcohol content material on the time he shot himself.
“I don’t know what happened. He was never a drinking kid. He didn’t like it, didn’t like the taste of it,” she went on. “He started to drink during COVID. Something happened in this last year, and it really just got him.”
Janelle emphasised stated her household “had offered him all the love, all the support, all the help, all the resources” beforehand.
We don’t know precisely when this installment was filmed, however all current episodes centered on occasions that happened a number of months in the past.
We are able to solely assume this episode was filmed loads nearer to current day.
Janelle Brown is doing all she will to get better from her son’s suicide. (TLC)
Together with the heartbreak, Janelle and different members of the family will eternally need to cope with the confusion. The unknown.
“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,” she continued. “I don’t know. I don’t know what happened this time.”
After listening to from Gabriel, Janelle advised viewers made her method to Garrison’s dwelling, calling daughter Maddie alongside the way in which.
In some unspecified time in the future, members of their massive household started to rally round her.
Janelle Brown on Season 18 of Sister Wives. (TLC)
Garrison would have turned 27 final month.
“You seem so alive in the millions of photos I have. I sometimes forget I won’t see you again — and then I remember, Grief is so strange,” his mother wrote through Instagram on the time, alongside a carousel of images the place Garrison is smiling from ear to ear.
She added:
“I’ve loved all the remembrances of you posted by family and friends. And I had to re-share the reel from the county fair because it shows who you were so well. Till we meet again sweetheart.”
