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Sister Wives star Christine Brown tearfully addressed her continued social media presence within the wake of Garrison Brown‘s dying.
Two weeks after Janelle and Kody Brown‘s son died at age 25, Christine, 51, opened up about how she’s navigating her grief. “I’ve to maintain working, as a result of it’s what I perceive, it’s what I do know. It’s what I do know I must do,” she defined in an emotional Instagram video on Wednesday, March 20, including that posting on social media is usually a part of her job.
Christine acknowledged that not all of the feedback she’s obtained have been adverse. “These of you which have understood it’s simply what I’ve to do to maintain transferring ahead, thanks a lot,” she mentioned. “It’s a horrible factor to lose your son. Horrible.”
Insisting that the Brown household could be lacking Garrison “on a regular basis, each single day, for the remainder of our lives,” Christine added that making an attempt to regain some normalcy hasn’t been straightforward.
“We’ve acquired to maintain transferring ahead,” she mentioned. “‘Trigger in any other case I’d simply need to keep in mattress all day.”
She went on to thank followers for his or her condolences since Garrison’s dying. “The entire love and assist that we now have obtained from individuals means a lot. Thanks from the underside of my coronary heart,” she continued. “Please, begin reaching out to individuals that you just love and allow them to know. Should you really feel like calling someone you’ve acquired to name them. Simply attain out and proceed doing it. Thanks a lot.”
Within the caption of her video, Christine added the hashtags, “#grieving #gottakeepgoing #thankyou #misshimsomuch.” Feedback on the submit have been restricted.
Us Weekly confirmed Garrison’s dying on March 5. Police arrived at his residence in Flagstaff, Arizona, the place Garrison was found with what seemed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Foul play was not suspected, and the dying was investigated as an obvious suicide.
Kody, 55, addressed the household’s loss through Instagram that very same day. “Janelle and I are deeply saddened to announce the lack of our stunning boy Robert Garrison Brown,” he shared. “He was a vivid spot within the lives of all who knew him. Our loss will depart such a giant gap in our lives, that it takes our breath away. We ask that you just please respect our privateness and be part of us in honoring his reminiscence.”

Garrison Brown. Courtesy of Christine Brown/Instagram
Janelle, who break up from Kody in 2022, issued an almost equivalent assertion. Garrison was one of many former couple’s six youngsters together with Logan, 29, Maddie, 28, Hunter, 26, Gabriel, 21, and Savanah, 18.
Earlier than Garrison was laid to relaxation on March 9, Christine and several other different members of the plural household honored him with heartfelt messages.
“Garrison was an exquisite, caring brother who understood [my daughter] Truely’s want for a interest and constructed her a flowerbed,” Christine captioned an Instagram tribute on March 7. “We’ll miss him perpetually. #gratitude #missyou #loveyou #tellthoseyoulovethatyoulovethem.”
His sister Maddie later revealed that psychological well being performed a job in Garrison’s dying whereas detailing the teachings she’s discovered since shedding her youthful sibling.
“Psychological well being is so essential,” she mentioned in an Instagram video on Monday, March 18. “And I don’t suppose we speak about it sufficient. I don’t suppose we do sufficient to carry consciousness. It wasn’t bullying, it wasn’t an absence of affection that Garrison had. It was psychological well being. And I’m going to proceed speaking about psychological well being and self-care till I’m blue within the face as a result of I don’t suppose it’s talked about sufficient in a approach that individuals perceive it.”
Together with Janelle, Kody was beforehand in non secular unions with Christine and Meri Brown. He stays legally married to fourth spouse Robyn Brown.
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