'Sister Wives' star Meri Brown says Kody 'made the decision' to end their spiritual marriage
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Esme Mazzeo
Dec 17, 2022, 02:33 IST
Meri Brown and Kody Brown.TLC; TLC
Meri Brown said on the "Sister Wives" tell-all that Kody "made the decision" to end their marriage.
Meri and Kody have been "spiritually" married for 32 years.
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TLC's "Sister Wives" star Meri Brown confirmed that her marriage to Kody Brown is over in the upcoming "Sister Wives: One on One" special, as seen in a sneak peek video published by People. Kody and Meri, who was his first legal wife, have been married for 32 years.
In the clip, host Sukanya Krishnan asked Meri to react to footage from earlier in season 17 when Kody said he didn't consider himself married to her and that if she met another man and got married, he wouldn't give her an "argument."
Meri said it didn't "make sense" that Kody "made the decision" to end their spiritual marriage without talking to her about their relationship first. She pointed out that Kody had felt "frustrated" when his third wife Christine ended their marriage of more than 25 years without consulting him, yet he did the same thing when ending his marriage with Meri.
She said that since 2018 — which marked their first anniversary since living in Flagstaff, Arizona — Kody has "led me to believe that he was trying." But recently, she noticed a change in his attitude.
"This last anniversary he's like, 'I don't even know why you called me, Meri.' He's like, 'We're not married. We're not acting as married,'" Meri continued in the clip.
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She said that during a phone call, she told Kody that if that's where their relationship was, they should probably tell the public. Kody didn't want to because he didn't want the "judgment" that comes with an announcement like that as a public figure.
When asked directly by Krishnan if she considered herself still married to Kody and if she had gotten any say in the matter, Meri responded, "Well, he's already made the decision. You just saw him say that."
She said she "definitely would" like to have a romantic marriage with Kody again, but added, "I don't think that he's interested" in repairing the relationship presently.
Krishnan then informed Meri that Kody told her there was a moment in the past when he considered reconciling with Meri, which she said she had "no idea" about. Details of that moment are presumably coming in part one of the "Sister Wives: One on One" special, but they weren't described in the clip.
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Meri and Kody legally married in 1990 and have one child together, Leon, who is 27 years old. They legally divorced in 2014 so that Kody could lawfully adopt his fourth wife Robyn Brown's children from her first marriage.
In 2015, Meri got entangled in a catfishing scandal which caused her and Kody to become estranged. As chronicled in previous seasons of "Sister Wives," the pair no longer have a romantic marriage, though if it were up to Meri, they would. They are still "spiritually" married, according to their sect of the Mormon faith.
Part one of "Sister Wives: One on One" airs Sunday on TLC.
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