Sister Wives' Meri Brown Says It's 'Heartbreaking' to Officially Be Granted Divorce from Kody Through Church
Mar. 15, 2025Meri Brownhas officially ended her marriage toKody Brown.
“I texted Kody and said, ‘Hey, I started the process. In two weeks, if you want to give any input, have anything to do with it or whatever’ and he never responded to my text,” she explains.
From left: Meri and Kody Brown.TLC (2)
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“I was granted what is called in our church, a release, which is basically the equivalent of a divorce,” she tells cameras. “It was a very, very hard conversation, hard in meaning heartbreaking because this is not what I wanted to do. This is not what I intended when I married Kody.”
The reality star explains that the couple’s divorce from a decade ago was for legal reasons but their marriage was still strong at the time.
From left: Kody and Meri Brown.Meri Brown/Instagram
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“When we marry, it is for eternity. That’s the intention," she adds. “So once I had that terminated or released, that means it’s done.”
On the Sept. 22 episode ofSister Wives, Meri detailed her reasons forwanting to end the marriage. “I don’t want to be, like, sealed to him for eternity if he doesn’t want me,” she explained. “I’m at a place that like, let’s just separate this completely.”
Meri shared that she had been “asking Kody how he felt about moving forward with the release,” but he was “kind of resistant to it.”
She insisted that she was “moving forward” with the release after “living in limbo in this relationship for nearly a decade."
However, Kody saw things differently, explaining, “the damage was done so badly that we’re not going to reconcile no matter what.”
“However we are made accountable to God, I don’t want to be accountable to this church and all their BS,” he continued. “So I’m going to let Meri go and do her thing because if I’m angry at her, it becomes a fight. I needed her just to go away because it just took forever for her to finally realize it’s been done and over for years.”
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source: people.com
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