‘Sister Wives’ Star Christine Brown Reveals Oxycodone Addiction in New Memoir: ‘Best High I Ever Felt’

Sister Wives star Christine Brown revealed that she was addicted to painkillers for a time while she was married to her ex-husband, Kody Brown.

In her new memoir, Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom, which was released on Tuesday, September 2, Christine, 53, explained that she began taking Oxycodone after she underwent knee surgery in 2016.

“I had never taken oxycodone before — if something hurt, I took ibuprofen or aspirin,” the mom of five wrote. “With the surgery, I had already fixed the problem, and it hurt, so I took my meds.”

However, she soon realized that the prescription medicine was much stronger than the over-the-counter pills she was used to taking.

“On the third day, after the surgery, I felt like I had the flu. I was achy from head to toe,” Christine continued. “I took an oxycodone, and all the symptoms went away. ‘Oh,’ I thought, ‘I’m not taking this for my knee anymore. I’m taking it because I’m achy everywhere.’”

The reality star also went into detail about how she took Oxycodone before she was set to do a one-on-one interview for Sister Wives and said, “It gave me the best high I ever felt. I was on top of the world and I could accomplish everything! I lived about two minutes away from the interview set, so I could take an oxycodone just before I left, drive to work before it hit and then feel great on set. Oxy made the set fine. I could do anything on oxy.”

Christine noted that her feelings while coming down from the meds were alarming as she’d “feel so sad,” and she found herself thinking “about the next hit and it was hours away.”

Eventually, Janelle Brown’s daughter Maddie Brush called her out on her behavior and it was enough to make her realize she needed to make some changes.

“I don’t know if I would have been strong enough to get out of it if I hadn’t already discovered that I loved myself enough to want me back,” she wrote. “But my kids weren’t done with me.”