Meri Brown is defending her decision to stay spiritually married to her now-ex Kody Brown despite years of estrangement. During the Nov. 17 episode of Sister Wives , Meri explained her confusion in the final decade of her 30-year marriage to Kody, which ended for good in 2022.
“There’s just a lot of things that he says and does that have been really, really confusing to me over the years, which also is why I stayed with him for so long,” Meri, who shares 29-year-old Leon Brown with Kody, explained. “Even more recently in the last couple of years where Kody would talk to me almost like he needed to vent, I thought for a while with him talking to me and having those conversations and being open to me that it was kind of maybe opening doors to, ‘OK, we can have other conversations. We can start working on things.
’ That’s how it felt to me.” While the duo wed in 1990, Meri and Kody legally divorced in 2014 so that Kody could marry Robyn Brown , his fourth wife, in an effort to adopt her children from a previous marriage. Cover cracks in Meri and Kody’s new arrangement were evident the following year when she was tangled up in a catfishing scandal involving a woman posing as a man online.
But both Kody and Meri—the first of Kody’s four wives—have admitted that their marriage was struggling before the highly publicized incident. “Meri and I were trying to work the relationship out,” Kody—who also split from wives Chistine Brown and Janelle Brown in 202.
