Kody and. Meri Brown Discovery (2)
Kody Brown was overcome by a wave of emotion whereas transferring ex-wife Meri Brown to Utah — and he or she didn’t see it coming.
“Meri’s simply on level as we speak. She’s simply the great girl that I might have appreciated to have been married to,” Kody, 55, advised the cameras throughout the Sunday, November 24, episode of Sister Wives, after laughing and joking round with Meri, 53, within the kitchen of her Arizona residence.
The exes, who confirmed their cut up in January 2023 after greater than 30 years collectively, had been on good phrases throughout the episode as Kody helped her pack up her residence.
“Hey, pay attention, we’re like one of the best divorced couple ever,” Meri advised Kody and her brother-in-law, Nathan, who was additionally there to assist her transfer. “Yeah, she is the favourite divorced spouse,” Kody teased, referring to his different exes, Christine Brown and Janelle Brown.
The pair’s enjoyable and video games got here to an finish when Kody efficiently unpacked Meri’s issues at her mattress and breakfast in Utah. When he went to go away, he began to cry and wouldn’t let go of Meri.
“Meri, it’s the tip of the period. It’s an important run, however I’m not going to let it get me down,” Kody mentioned via tears. “[It] all the time blows me away that you just get emotional like this. I simply don’t perceive,” Meri mentioned in response.
As soon as Meri pulled away, Kody defined that that is the primary time he’s actually come to phrases with the finality of their breakup.
“We had one thing particular. … I’m not bitter anymore. I’m not indignant. I’m glad you and I bought that discovered. I’m glad that we had been capable of be buddies. I’m glad that you just’re my favourite ex-wife,” Kody mentioned. “However it’s the weirdest factor to be in that place. It’s simply heartbreaking in a means.”
He continued, “I really like the life I’ve, however it’s a really completely different life than what I had three years in the past, you realize? And it simply appeared like everyone else simply went, ‘This isn’t necessary.’”
Kody confessed that he’d been “so indignant with Christine and Janelle that I haven’t been capable of actually handle the mourning. I’ve simply been indignant.” (Christine, 52, introduced her cut up from Kody in November 2021, whereas Janelle, 55, revealed their separation in December 2022.)
However on the subject of his relationship with Meri, he mentioned, “I’m via that anger section.” Kody proceeded to apologize for his wrongdoings, saying, “I’m sorry concerning the seven years, however I’m glad we did it as a result of now I can mourn a loss as an alternative of being indignant. Does that make sense?”
Kody continued to spiral, telling Meri that “should you marry once more” that he “gained’t be bizarre,” admitting that the previous few minutes “bought bizarre.”
When one in every of Meri’s buddies, who was watching the entire alternate, requested Kody, “Would you be the flower lady?” he replied, “No, I get to stroll her down the aisle.”
Kody’s comment surprised Meri, who married Kody in 1990. The couple bought legally divorced in 2014 and Kody married fourth spouse Robyn Brown and adopted her kids from one other marriage. Meri and Kody remained in a non secular union for almost one other decade earlier than they agreed it was over.
“I don’t get it. I don’t know the place that is coming from. I don’t perceive it,” Meri advised the cameras. “He has made it clear that he didn’t need me in his life. So why this emotion?”
Meri, who shares Leon with Kody, was gobsmacked by Kody speaking about her future relationships as effectively.
“The truth that he’s saying he desires to stroll me down the aisle once I get married once more, I’m like, like, ‘Why would he say that?’” she mentioned in a confessional. “Is he critical? Is he attempting to make a joke? Like I can’t inform. I don’t know what’s happening.”
Meri additionally questioned his sincerity. “He’s sobbing. He’s saying it’s the tip of an period. And I’m pondering it didn’t should be this fashion,” she advised the cameras. She later added, “I’m floored by [this]. I don’t know what to do with this.”
Kody, in the meantime, advised the cameras that after his splits from Christine and Janelle, parting methods with Meri felt like “the ultimate nail within the coffin of our dream” as a polygamist household.
Kody ended his go to with one other hug, telling Meri, “That is the tip of an period and now now we have permission to maneuver on.”
Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.