Christine Brown, Robyn Brown, Meri Brown, Kody Brown.
Discovery(4)The Brown family recreated the surrounding drama Merry BrownLegal divorce from Cody Brown In the last episode of Sister wives – with Christine Brown Claiming that was everything Robyn Brownan idea.
“When Robyn first joined the family, she started talking to us about these other families where the first wife had divorced her husband so he could legally and lawfully marry the second wife and adopt,” Christine, 52, said during a Sunday, December 2017 interview. children”. Episode 29 of the TLC series.
Kristen claimed that at that moment she thought “this is a plant” and that Robyn, 46, was insinuating that she wanted Meri, 53, to do the same for her and her children.
“She's mentioned it a few times over the years, like she was putting it there because she liked it to happen,” Kristen also claimed, noting: “I don't think Meri felt like it was planted. I think Meri felt like it was her own idea.”
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Meri was legally married to Kody, 55, in 1990. To become his first wife. The multi-family expanded their brood in 1993 when Kody married a soulmate Janelle Brown. In 1994, Christine entered into a spiritual union with the Patriarch.
When Robyn started dating Cody in 2010, she already had three children from a previous marriage. Four years later, Meri and Kody legally separated Robin got married and Then she adopted her children.
While Kristen claimed that 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,” Robin said on Sunday's episode. “I never said that.”
“I don't even know anyone who divorced their first wife so that the second wife could adopt the children. I've never even heard of that before,” she claimed.
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Elsewhere in the episode, Robin claimed: “I feel it I was gaslighted By some family members,” indicating that her actions had been misunderstood.
Meanwhile, Janelle admitted that she was wary of Meri divorcing Kody in 2014 Because of the dynamics From their family at that time.
“I was kind of speechless when (Meri) told us she was actually doing it, because I thought Meri would never do it,” Janelle recalls. “I was really starting to see that there was a little bit of favoritism towards Robin from Cody at that point, and I was concerned.”
However, Robyn insisted that she never intended to legally marry Cody, especially after her previous divorce. She said it was Meri's idea, while Meri said she initiated the proceedings but discussed them with Kody together.
“(Meri) had an idea in her head to legally propose to me so that Kody could adopt my children,” Robyn told viewers, claiming: “I never wanted to be legally married to Kody.”
Robyn claimed that she is “really grateful” that she “will not be legally married” to Kody because she went through “a lot of 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 get a divorce in 2014, she did not think it would have a significant impact on her emotional state or Her marriage to Cody.
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“I wonder if he had this plan in mind at the time, (saying): 'If I can do this, the transition will be easy,'” Myrie told the cameras, claiming that within “six months” of signing the papers, he stopped. Cody stopped attending.”
She recalled experiencing “a lot of heartache” when she went to the lawyers to sign the papers, because she did not feel “emotionally supported” by the other wives or Kody.
“The logical part of me was like, ‘No, you still have the spiritual side of the marriage.’ “Emotionally I felt like I was throwing away the entire marriage,” Meri explained.It was very difficult. And I had to tell myself all the time: No, not like that. We still have this spiritual marriage.
Cody admitted that he had not considered severing legal ties As a big deal. “In my opinion, we were just mixing up the legal papers,” he said. “Me and Meri, after that divorce, we 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 a while Almost 10 more yearsBut their relationship never revived after their legal separation. (Meri confirmed her split from Kody in January 2023 after months of speculation. Meanwhile, Kristen and Janelle left Kody in 2021 and 2022, respectively.)
Looking back, Meri has claimed that their divorce and her decision to buy a bed and breakfast in Utah (where her mother lived until her death) was a way for Kody to distance himself from their marriage.
“I think it's interesting that I actually live here in the house because when I bought the house, that wasn't the intention,” Meri said in the episode after moving from Arizona to Utah for good. “I know Cody felt that way. I think other family members did too.”
She denied it was the “escape plan” she claimed. “I think the escape plan was that legal divorce. Let's be real, that was his escape plan.”
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