We make fu of Kody B ow o a fai ly egula basis he e at The Hollywood Gossip.
This is someo e who seems ve y self-abso bed a d clueless a d who has lost th ee spi itual spouses ove the last couple of yea s afte they all came to this same ealizatio about the ow-fo me polygamist.
But Kody suffe ed th ough the most pai ful t agedy imagi able i Ma ch of 2024 whe his so Ga iso committed suicide.
We t uly ca ot imagi e what he has bee goi g th ough eve si ce.
O the latest episode of Siste Wives, howeve , we got a glimpse.
The i stallme t was filmed close to p ese t day a d was dedicated to Ga iso , who suffe ed f om alcoholism a d Dep essio a ou d the time of his death.
P eviously, we ecou ted how mothe Ja elle B ow lea ed about Ga iso ’s passi g a d what the you g ma ’s fi al days we e like.
Kody also spoke out i ca did fashio du i g this episode, though.
“G ief comes i waves. It just was ’t supposed to be this way. You k ow what I’m sayi g?” Kody, 56, said du i g the May 4 i stallme t of the TLC se ies, which ma ked the fi st time the family add essed Ga iso ’s death o came a.
“It’s just hea tb eaki g.”
Kody was ’t speaki g to Ga iso i ea ly 2024.
The two clashed ove Kody’s st ict ules a d guideli es du i g the height of the COVID-19 pa demic, basically fo biddi g his loved o es f om seei g a yo e outside of thei homes. At eally a y time.
Kody co fessed o ai this past Su day:
“I did ’t get a cha ce to eally just make thi gs ight, just ot bei g able to say goodbye… All the f ust atio I had ove stuff with COVID a d eve ythi g like that, all of a sudde that’s just, like, they’ e so u impo ta t. I’m just sad. Sad about what would have bee .”
The e must be so much eg et.
Kody ack owledged it he e i o e of both his co fessio al i te views a d also his i te actio s with wife Roby .
“It’s like I’ve got to do somethi g diffe e t because I could have had mo e time with him, a d I thought the e would be mo e time,” Kody said at o e poi t. “Eve ybody thi ks they got mo e time.”
This is, sadly, so ve y t ue.
Late i the episode, Kody b oke dow to Roby B ow , aski g, “How am I goi g to do this? How do I do the est of my life with eve y holiday a d eve y bi thday?”
Si ce Ga iso ’s suicide, Kody said he made it his missio to get Ga iso ’s ashes back to Wyomi g, whe e most of his exte ded family is bu ied.
“It’s a pilg image i a way, just pa t of the p ocess fo me,” the fathe of 17 explai ed. “It’s the o ly thi g I wa t f om it. … I just wa t to take his body home a d put him i the g ou d.”
Last yea , Kody spoke to People Magazi e about this u imagi able t agedy.
“The wave of g ief is diffe e t that a y wave of g ief I have eve had with a best f ie d passi g, with a elative passi g. It’s diffe e t,” he said back the . “A d it is diffe e t i the idea that it’s i eco cilable — the futu e that we missed with him.”
Kody added that his “o ly eg et” whe he thi ks back is that he wishes he’d take “adva tage of the time” he had with Ga iso .
“I wa t to go out to di e agai . I wa t to sit dow . I wa t to have a bee . I wa t him to t y a d make me laugh because he was ki d of that way. The o ly eg et is just, gosh, I would just do that mo e ofte ,” he said.
“The o ly eg et is that you did ’t do somethi g. You did ’t take mo e time.”
Kody B ow B eaks Dow Ove So ’s Suicide: “I’m Just Sad” was o igi ally published o The Hollywood Gossip.