Overview

• ‘Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom’ was published Sept. 2 by Gallery Books, arriving weeks before Sister Wives returns for season 20.
• Brown Woolley writes that she became dependent on oxycodone after ACL surgery in 2016, taking pills before filming interviews and cycling through intense highs and lows.
• She says Janelle’s daughter Maddie confronted her, prompting her to halve doses, relinquish remaining pills to family for disposal, and endure about six months of feeling “unbalanced.”
• In the prologue, she reflects that she grew up in — and raised her children in — what she now believes was a cult-like fundamentalist, polygamist community.
• The book recounts a friendship-ending clash with Meri over a 10‑cent incident and accuses Kody of punitive withholding of attention, “love bombing,” and being largely absent as a parent.