Sister Wives’ Meri Brown Reveals Why She Isn’t Taking the Blame for Her and Robyn’s Falling Out
Sister Wives star Meri Brown explained why she won’t take responsibility for her falling out with ex Kody Brown’s last remaining wife, Robyn Brown.
After Robyn, 46, accused Meri, 54, of “not reciprocating” her attempts to mend their strained friendship, the mother of one spoke out about how their dynamic has changed in recent years.
“You are having this pain about me leaving — that’s a you thing,” Meri said in a teaser clip for the Sunday, June 8, episode of Sister Wives: One on One shared by E! News. She made the comment after host Sukanya Krishnan repeated Robyn’s comments that she lost hope that they could work out their issues. “That’s yours to carry. That’s not mine,” Meri added.
Meri then argued that it wasn’t her fault that ending her marriage to Kody, 56, negatively impacted her friendship with Robyn.
“For a lot of times, a lot of years, I was trying to take the blame,” she continued, explaining that she always felt the need to prioritize others when she was a member of the Brown plural family. “I needed to really learn to let that go.”
While reflecting on her current dynamic with Robyn, Meri added that she no longer felt the bond that they once had. “I just don’t feel like it’s there, which is really just unfortunate,” she said.
Christine Brown was Kody’s first wife to leave him in November 2021. In Touch exclusively confirmed that Janelle Brown left the businessman in December 2022, while Kody and Meri announced their split in a joint statement in January 2023.
Meri and Robyn grew close during their marriages to Kody, though they drifted apart after the former Lizzie’s Heritage Inn owner left the Brown patriarch.
Their current dynamic was documented during season 19 of the TLC show, and Meri didn’t hold back while sharing her thoughts about Robyn.
“There’s so many people that are like she was a fraud, she was a liar, she was manipulating,” she told friend Jenn Sullivan about Robyn during the April 20 episode.
After Meri called out Jenn for making a seemingly judgmental “look,” she told the TV personality that she was being “cautious” and too protective of her former sister wife.
“I don’t think it was like intentional manipulation,” Jenn said as Meri agreed. “I do think that Kody [Brown] decided that he had this new person that was this new insider with him, and then it just became them against everybody else.”
Jenn continued, “She’d act like she was your best friend, and then completely ignore you and hurt your feelings. Like that’s really f–ked up. Like either be an asshole or don’t.”
Meri reflected on her past relationship with Robyn during a confessional, saying that their friendship “was a good one” and she “felt very solid in it.” She continued, “We were very close. And then it started, there was a divide.”
More recently, Meri took a jab at Kody and Robyn’s relationship during the May 25 episode of the Sister Wives: One on One special.
After Sukanya, 53, told her that Kody “wanted to raise every wife up” to the same “divine love” that he experienced with Robyn, Meri argued that the comment wasn’t true.
“I don’t think that’s fair for him to even say,” she responded. “Because we’re all supposed to be Robyn? I’m sorry, I am Meri. I’m not going to be Robyn. I don’t want to be Robyn. I’m gonna be my own individual person. I don’t want to be her.”