Sister Wives star Christine Brown got candid about a lot of topics in her new book — including an addiction to oxycodone that started after a knee surgery.

Brown, 53, revealed that she developed a dependency on the painkiller in 2016 after injuring her knee and undergoing surgery. “I had never taken oxycodone before — if something hurt, I took ibuprofen or aspirin,” she wrote in Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom, which hit shelves Tuesday, September 2. With the surgery, I had already fixed the problem, and it hurt, so I took my meds.”

The TLC personality soon realized that the medication was extremely powerful.

“On the third day, after the surgery, I felt like I had the flu. I was achy from head to toe,” she recalled. “I took an oxycodone, and all the symptoms

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