The issue arose on the episode aired on November 1, where a fan brought up Kody Brown’s past statements regarding the disloyalty of wives who withhold children from their fathers.

“Robyn never did that,” Kody clarified during the podcast. “He had access to them all the time.” The conversation took a turn when the fan highlighted David Jessop’s current battle with cancer, a situation publicized in February through a GoFundMe campaign aimed to assist with his medical expenses. Kody began to comment on the children’s choice in distancing themselves from David but decided to diverge from the topic, stating, “This is about somebody else and somebody else’s life,” and expressed his reluctance to delve further.

Robyn’s former marriage to David Jessop began in June 1999 and dissolved in 2007, with their official divorce concluding in 2009, as per documents acquired by In Touch. Throughout their union, they welcomed Dayton, Aurora, and Breanna.

Following their separation, David was mandated by court order to provide $159 monthly in child support for the three children. However, over time, David’s presence in his children’s lives diminished. At one point, he even engaged Kody in discussions about a potential stepparent adoption, which would absolve him of child support obligations. David retracted the idea once he learned it would also strip him of visitation rights.

The year 2014 marked a legal union between Kody and Robyn, a move orchestrated to facilitate the adoption of Dayton, Aurora, and Breanna by Kody, which effectively alienated David from the children’s lives. Records indicate that at the time of the adoption, David had neglected child support payments for two and a half years. David also alleged that Robyn was coercing the children into uncomfortable situations regarding their relationship with Kody, particularly in the context of their custody discussions and the children’s true feelings about the adoption process.