Christine Brown, Robyn Brown, Meri Brown, Kody Brown.
Discovery(4)The Brown family has been rehashing the drama surrounding Meri Brunlegal divorce from Kody Brown on the last episode of Sister Wives – with Christine Brun pretending that was all Robyn Brownthe idea.
“When Robyn came into the family, she started telling us about these other families where the first wife had divorced her husband so he could legally marry the second wife and legally adopt the children,” said Christine, 52 years, on Sunday December 1st. 29, episode of the TLC series.
Christine alleged that at that moment she thought, “That’s a plant” and that Robyn, 46, implied she wanted Meri, 53, to do the same for her and her children.
“She mentioned that many times over the years, she was putting that in there because she would have loved for that to happen,” Christine added, noting, “I don’t think Meri felt like that was planted. I think Meri felt like it was her own idea.
Kody Brown’s relationships with Meri Brown, Janelle Brown, Christine Brown and Robyn Brown have all had their ups and downs – but many Sister Wives viewers were shocked when almost all of his wives started leaving him. TLC fans learned about the Brown family in 2010, when he was legally married to Meri and […]
Meri legally married Kody, 55, in 1990, become his first wife. The plural family expanded its brood in 1993 when Kody got married spiritually. Janelle Brown. In 1994, Christine entered into a spiritual union with the patriarch.
When Robyn started dating Kody in 2010, she already had three children from a previous marriage. Four years later, Meri and Kody legally divorced and he married Robyn And then adopted her children.
While Christine claimed this was Robyn’s plan all along, she denied the accusations. “The idea that I planted an idea in Meri’s head is an absolute lie,” Robyn said on Sunday’s episode. “I never said it.”
She said: “I don’t even know anyone who divorced their first wife so that the second wife could adopt children. I’ve never heard of it before.
After more than 30 years of marriage, Kody and Meri Brown got through more than one rough patch before confirming their separation in 2023. The couple married in April 1990 before Kody introduced three other wives, Janelle, Christine and Robyn. Brown, in their family. Their unique family life attracted […]
Elsewhere in the episode, Robyn said: “I feel like I was gaslighted by some family members,” implying that his actions were misinterpreted.
Janelle, meanwhile, admitted she was wary of Meri’s divorce from Kody in 2014. because of the dynamics of their family at the time.
“I was actually a little speechless when [Meri] told us she was actually doing it, because I thought Meri would never do that,” Janelle recalled. “I had already started to see that there was a bit of favoritism for Robyn on Kody’s part at that point, and I was worried.”
Robyn, however, insisted that she never intended to legally marry Kody, especially after his previous divorce. She said it was Meri’s idea, while Meri said she initiated the procedure but that she and Kody discussed it together.
“[Meri] “I had the idea in my head to offer to give me legal marriage so that Kody could adopt my children,” Robyn told viewers, claiming, “I never even wanted to be legally married to Kody.”
Robyn claimed she was “really grateful” to “not be legally married” to Kody because she experienced “so much trauma with my legal divorce in my last marriage.”
She added: “I was very happy and satisfied with my spiritual marriage. I didn’t need anything else.
Although Meri took the necessary steps to initiate the 2014 divorce, she didn’t think it would have such a significant effect on her emotional state or her marriage to Kody.
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“I wonder if he already had this plan in mind at that point, [saying]”If I can just do this, the transition will be easy,” Meri told the cameras, claiming that within “six months” of signing the papers, Kody “stopped coming.”
She remembers feeling “a lot of heartbreak” when she went to the lawyers to sign the papers because she didn’t feel “emotionally supported” by the other wives or Kody.
“I had the logical part of saying, ‘No, you still have the spiritual side of marriage.’ It was emotionally like I was getting rid of the whole marriage,” Meri explained. “It was so hard. And I had to tell myself all the time, “No, that’s not the case. We still have this spiritual marriage.’
Kody admitted he hadn’t thought about severing legal ties like a big deal. “In my mind, we were just mixing up legal formalities,” he said. “Meri and I, after that divorce, left Robyn and went to dinner together. I gave her a special ring and we probably went home and made love.
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Meri and Kody remained in spiritual union for almost 10 years olderbut their relationship never rebounded after their legal separation. (Meri confirmed her split from Kody in January 2023 after months of speculation. Christine and Janelle, meanwhile, left Kody in 2021 and 2022, respectively.)
Looking back, Meri claimed that their divorce and her decision to buy a bed and breakfast in Utah (which her mother lived in until she died) was a way for Kody to distance himself from their marriage.
“I think it’s interesting that I live here in the house because when I bought the house, that wasn’t my intention,” Meri said in the episode after moving permanently from Arizona to Utah. “I know Kody felt that way. I think other family members did too.
She denied it was her “escape plan,” alleging: “I think the escape plan was this legal divorce. Let’s be real, this was his escape plan.
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
