Meri Brown is sharing new particulars surrounding her determination to terminate her three-decades-long marriage to Kody Brown.
The businesswoman, 53, candidly mentioned the couple’s religious separation as she met with associates Jenn and Brandi through the Sunday, Dec. 15, episode of Sister Wives.
Meri, who legally divorced Kody, 55, in 2014, famous that “inside the week, he goes, ‘Why did you do it so quick?’ … He is like, ‘I do not perceive why you probably did it so quick. You may have a man on the aspect ready?'”
However she discovered his feedback to be “insulting” as a result of he had “no curiosity” in sustaining their marriage, noting that this was “the one different choice.”
The truth star then revealed she had texted him after she obtained the official termination of their marriage by their church. “I texted him and he referred to as me inside 20 minutes,” she revealed.
“It was a very good textual content. … Do you wish to hear it?” Meri continued, earlier than going to retrieve her cellphone. Upon returning to her seat between her associates on the sofa, she started studying the message.
“I stated this. I am gonna learn it again. ‘Hello Kody, simply wished to comply with up from the textual content I despatched a pair weeks in the past. Simply wished to let you recognize that I had a dialog with the management in Utah at the moment and the official launch was granted. I am brokenhearted that our life got here to this. I’ll all the time love and respect you. Thanks for a few years of pleasure. I hope you really could have peace now and I launch you from any accountability or fear about me. I received this.'”
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Meri revealed in a current season 19 episode that she opted to terminate her marriage by the household’s church, explaining that she was “granted what is named in our church, a launch, which is principally the equal of a divorce.”
“It was a really, very onerous dialog, onerous in which means heartbreaking as a result of this isn’t what I wished to do. This isn’t what I meant once I married Kody,” she continued. “Again in 2014, Kody and I did do a authorized divorce, and for me, that entire course of was purely for the truth that he may then marry Robyn [Brown] legally after which undertake her three older children. However our religious marriage, our religious ceiling was nonetheless intact.”
In a current dialog with PEOPLE, Meri — who formally introduced the couple’s separation in January 2023 months after his marriages with Christine Brown and Janelle Brown dissolved — stated that the now exes are ” pleasant and sort with one another” when in the identical area.
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“I do not suppose that it is inauthentic in any respect. It is simply not at a spot that we’re calling one another and texting and being like, ‘Hey, pal, how’s it going? What are you doing at the moment?'” she defined. “It isn’t that sort of a relationship, however after we are in one another’s area, after we do must work together. It’s very high-quality.”
“I am very comfy with him. It isn’t awkward so far as that goes, however we’re simply not associates. Definitely not associates. You already know what I imply? I am proud of it,” she added.
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Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
