In E! News’ exclusive look at Sister Wives‘ one-on-one special, Meri Brown slammed Kody Brown’s “unfair” comparison to his fourth wife Robyn Brown.
Meri Brown is her own woman.
That’s why the Sister Wives star disagrees with ex Kody Brown for wanting her—as well as former sister wives Janelle Brown and Christine Brown—to change when he first introduced his fourth wife Robyn Brown into the family.
“I don’t think that’s fair for him to even say,” Meri shared in E! News’ exclusive look at the TLC series’ May 25 one-on-one special, after host Sukanya Krishnan revealed that Kody said he had “wanted to raise every wife up” to a level of “divine love” he experienced with Robyn.
“We’re all supposed to be Robyn?” she scoffed. “I’m sorry, I am Meri. I’m not going to be Robyn.”
In fact, the 54-year-old argued that it’s “unfair” for Kody to think of the other sister wives this way.
“I’m going to be my own individual person,” she continued. “I don’t want to be her.”
Looking back, Meri—who confirmed her split with Kody in 2022—believes one reason why their decades-long relationship didn’t work out was because he didn’t fully accept her. As she put it, “He didn’t for the past 12 or 14 years—or maybe even more.”
Likewise, Janelle—who announced her breakup with Kody in 2021—did not appreciate Kody’s remarks about his former wives, telling Sukanya during her own one-on-one discussion, “That’s revisionist history.”
The 56-year-old went on to say that she didn’t feel Kody ever made an effort to develop a deeper relationship with his other wives after Robyn joined the family.
“Would’ve been nice if he communicated that back then,” she added. “He never talked about that with me.”
As for Kody? After calling it quits with his third wife Christine in 2022 as well, he is “not interested in plural marriage” at the moment.
“It’s hard not to be bitter about the fact that I bought off on it and did it,” the 56-year-old told Robyn, 46, on an April episode of Sister Wives, “because in the end, in the last moments of it—I felt terrible in the last moments of it.”
He added, “I don’t want to pursue another woman because I don’t want that headache—the questions, the struggles, the wonder about trust.”
For more bombshells from this season of Sister Wives, keep reading.
Meri Says Kody Gave Her Hope for Their Marriage
Kody Brown insisted he was ready to divide himself from first wife Meri Brown shortly after their 1990 vows. But “he led me to believe that he would work on things by saying, ‘Oh Meri, when we move to Flagstaff, this will be a good time to have a new beginning for us,'” Meri shared in the Sept. 15 premiere, referencing their 2018 move. “Like he led me to believe those things. This is what he’s done for many, many years.”
Her main gripe, she shared, is “his lack of communication and how he really felt and what he really wanted or what he really didn’t want and the story that he’s been telling for all these years.”
And while Kody acknowledged that there may have been “mixed messages,” it was only because as he started to work on things, “I’m like, ‘Why would I do this?'” he explained. “I would not court and date her now.”
Either way, Meri’s friends were thrilled when she finally pulled the plug in early 2023.
“They’re like, ‘OK, we’re here for you, we’re supporting you. And it’s about damn time,'” she confessed. Blinders off, she now feels that he had been trying to get her to walk away for years by insisting he didn’t love her, “Because if he can push me out and I leave, he’s not the bad guy because he didn’t walk away.”
Kody Wanted to Sell Coyote Pass
Years after the family purchased the 14-acre plot of land they planned to build on in Flagstaff, Ariz., Kody confessed in the season premiere that he was ready to let the dream wither. Unable to build without paying off the full $820,000 price tag (which the family reportedly did in 2023), he told remaining wife Robyn Brown, “I’d almost rather scrap it or sell it and then just start again somewhere else.”
As for Robyn, “I can’t talk about that,” she responded. “That is so not where I’m at.”
