The exes open up about their authorized divorce, Robyn denies “planting” the thought Kody ought to legally marry her as a substitute – earlier than Meri’s catfishing scandal comes up … once more!
With regards to what led to then finish of their marriage, Meri and Kody Brown have completely different takes.
On Sunday’s all-new Sister Wives, the exes appeared again on their authorized divorce, and the way the dynamic of their relationship modified after Meri cleared the way in which for Kody to marry fourth spouse, Robyn Brown, and undertake her youngsters.
“When Kody and I acquired the authorized divorce, it was one thing that we had talked about collectively for years,” Meri defined in a confessional. “However on the time that it truly occurred, I used to be the one who made that transfer and went to go speak to the lawyer first as a result of I used to be simply in a spot of let’s simply do it, let’s simply rip the Band-Support off, let’s simply get it carried out.”
Meri stated she initially thought that in the event that they have been in a position to wait till her relationship with Kody was stronger, she’d really feel extra assured about legally divorcing the Brown household patriarch — however noticed quickly after he married Robyn that issues started to vary.
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“I saved pondering, if we are able to wait till our relationship is stronger, then I am going to really feel higher about doing it and I am going to really feel extra assured and I am going to really feel safer in our relationship,” she shared. “However that was by no means going to occur, clearly. It was inside six months that he stop coming across the full factor there too.”
Kody, in the meantime, checked out it extra from the authorized angle, telling viewers it was Meri who got here to him and inspired him to signal the paperwork and marry Robyn.
“Meri got here to me saying we have to simply do that divorce on paper so as to undertake Robin’s youngsters. In my thoughts, we have been simply shuffling a authorized paperwork,” Kody stated in a confessional. “Meri and I, after that divorce, left Robyn and went to dinner collectively. I gave her a particular ring and we most likely went dwelling and made love.”
He continued, “I imply, I am similar to going, ‘We’re not breaking this up.'”
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Listening to about Kody’s model of occasions, Meri referred to as it “disgusting” that her ex would convey up a “doubtlessly intimate second” like that between them on tv.
“I believe it is sort of disgusting that he would convey up a doubtlessly intimate second with any person that he is divorced from, as a result of I can guaran-damn-tee you that he would by no means speak about these moments on this setting together with his spouse,” Meri stated, referencing the completely different approach he treats his relationship with Robyn.
Meri did observe, nevertheless, that she and Kody weren’t in that “sort of relationship” at the moment the place they’d be getting intimate anyway.
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“I by no means felt like that authorized divorce did something to us,” Kody remarked.
“Meri volunteered it, however for some motive it nonetheless had an emotional affect on her as a result of shortly after was when she went by means of the catfish expertise,” he added, referencing a 2015 incident through which Meri was duped by somebody she was chatting to on-line.
“By the point the catfishing scenario occurred, mine and Kody’s relationship was actually nearly non existent,” Meri defined, trying to set the file straight. “I keep in mind after the authorized divorce pondering, ‘Oh, he is good. This was the factor that I wanted to do.’ He was actually sort and he was current in our relationship for a month or so, and then you definately simply cannot sustain a facade for too lengthy.”
“The catfishing scenario did not even start for possibly 8 months after the authorized divorce,” she added.
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As for Kody’s different sister wives, all of them expressed issues about Meri divorcing Kody and Robyn getting into the fold, with Janelle Brown telling viewers she was speechless over the transfer.
“I used to be truly type of speechless when she instructed us that she was truly doing it, as a result of I assumed, ‘Meri would by no means do that,'” Janelle stated in a confessional. “I already had began to see that there was a little bit little bit of favoritism for Robyn from Kody at that time, and I did fear.”
Christine Brown, in the meantime, stated she believes Robyn “planted” the thought of Meri divorcing Kody in order that Kody might undertake her youngsters early on after assembly the Brown clan.
“So when Robyn first got here into the household, she began speaking to us about these different households the place the primary spouse divorced the husband so he might marry the second spouse legally and legally undertake the youngsters,” Christine started. “And I keep in mind pondering, ‘Yeah, that is a plant.’ And she or he talked about that a number of occasions by means of the years, like she was placing that in there as a result of she would have beloved that to occur.”
“I do not assume Meri felt prefer it was planted. I believe Meri felt prefer it was her personal thought,” she added.
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Robyn, in the meantime, shut that idea down, telling viewers the concept that she “planted” something in Meri’s head “an absolute lie.”
“I do not even know anybody who divorced their first spouse in order that the second spouse might undertake youngsters,” Robyn added. “I’ve by no means even heard of that earlier than.”
She continued, “Meri instructed me when she made the supply that once we have been attending to know one another, she had had the thought in her head to supply to present me the authorized marriage in order that Kody might undertake my youngsters. I by no means even needed to be legally married to Kody. I used to be truly actually grateful that I wasn’t going to be legally married to Kody as a result of I would gone by means of a lot trauma with my authorized divorce in my final marriage.”
“I used to be very glad and content material with my religious marriage,” she added. “I did not want the rest.”
“Meri’s perspective modified, the place I did not really feel like mine did,” Kody shared, with Meri explaining that after they have been legally divorced, intimacy did fall off for the couple, contributing to the demise of their three-decade union.
See the previous spouses proceed to share their aspect of the story on Sister Wives, airing Sundays at 10:00 p.m. ET on TLC.
