{"id":153651,"date":"2022-12-10T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-christine-stayed-calm-during-kodys-knife-in-the-kidneys-outburst\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T09:20:00","slug":"how-christine-stayed-calm-during-kodys-knife-in-the-kidneys-outburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-christine-stayed-calm-during-kodys-knife-in-the-kidneys-outburst\/","title":{"rendered":"How Christine stayed calm during Kody’s ‘knife in the kidneys’ outburst"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Season 17 of “Sister Wives” has been filled with countless memorable moments \u2014 including Kody Brown’s explosive “knife in the kidneys” outburst from Episode 10.<\/p>\n

If you’ll recall, Kody \u2014 during his last family meeting with ex-wife Christine Brown present \u2014 uses a colorful analogy to describe the pain of her leaving him.<\/p>\n

In the scene, Kody meets with his four wives to discuss Christine’s move to Utah amid their ongoing divorce. Over the course of the meeting, he grows progressively angrier. The crescendo comes when Kody rises to his feet, gestures with his hands, and says the following: \u201cMan, just the knife in the kidneys over all these years! The sacrifices that I’ve made to love you. Wasted!\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to TODAY.com over Zoom, Christine explains exactly what was going through her mind as the tense encounter played out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI almost leapt up, then I put both of my feet on the ground, and I took a deep breath,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She maintained her composure, she says, by “tapping into (her) center.”<\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘OK, at my core, I just want what’s right for everybody. I just want to live my own life. And I honestly feel like me living my own life and me leaving is not only good for me, but it’s good for everybody,'” she says. “And I just tapped into that.”<\/p>\n

While it didn’t necessarily show on her face, Christine says there was a lot rushing through her head in that moment.<\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘Everyone has a right to be upset and to be angry; it’s fine. Everyone has that right,'” she says. “I went through it. I was angry and I was frustrated and I was mad and I was hurt. But I’m the only one responsible for my life, so I decided to live my life.”<\/p>\n

In that tense moment, Christine says she was also thinking about the impact that her reaction would have on her kids once they watched it on TV.<\/p>\n

“I always tell my kids, ‘Always be a lady, always be a gentleman.’ It’s the same definition for both. You just want everybody in the room to be comfortable. That’s all it comes down to,\u201d she said. “I just decided to leave like a lady ’cause my kids would know. My kids would see everything that I did.”<\/p>\n