Sister Wives’ Meri Brown Reveals Text She Sent Kody After Deciding to End Marriage

Sister Wives star Meri Brown revealed the text messages that she sent ex-husband Kody Brown after she decided to end their marriage.

While meeting up with friends Jenn and Brandi during the Sunday, December 15, episode, Meri, 53, revealed that Kody, 55, asked her why she ended their marriage so “fast.” She recalled, “He’s like, ‘I don’t understand why you did it so fast. You have a guy on the side waiting?'”

Meri admitted she found the question to be “insulting” because Kody previously had “no interest” in maintaining their marriage in the final years leading up to their split.

In light of their spiritual divorce, Meri turned to the church to have them officially terminate their marriage. Once they were no longer married in the eyes of the church, she said that she “texted him and he called [her] within 20 minutes.”

Meri added that the text she sent was “good,” and she got up to retrieve her phone so she could read the message to her friends.

“I said this. I’m gonna read it back. ‘Hi Kody, just wanted to follow up from the text I sent a couple weeks ago. Just wanted to let you know that I had a conversation with the leadership in Utah today and the official release was granted. I’m brokenhearted that our life came to this. I will always love and respect you. Thank you for many years of joy. I hope you truly will have peace now and I release you from any responsibility or worry about me. I got this,’” she shared.

Meri and Kody tied the knot in 1990, and they remained together until they confirmed their split by issuing a joint statement in January 2023. “We feel compelled to share our own truth, in our own way and in our own timing,” they wrote in a statement posted via Instagram. “After more than a decade of working on our relationship in our own unique ways, we have made the decision to permanently terminate our marriage relationship.”

Fans previously watched Meri explain her decision to ask the church to “release” them their marriage during the October 13 episode.

After explaining her plans to “move forward with the official termination through the church where we had gotten married,” Meri said she reached out to Kody to see if he had “any input” regarding the process. However, she said he “never responded to [her] text.”

“[It’s] basically the equivalent of a divorce,” she explained of the process at the time. “It was a very, very hard conversation. … This is not what I wanted to do. This is not what I intended when I married Kody.”

While discussing the “release,” Meri said that the “spiritual ceiling” of their relationship was “still intact” even though they legally divorced in 2014. They made the decision so that he could marry his fourth wife, Robyn Brown, and adopt her kids from a previous relationship. Despite no longer being legally married, Meri and Kody remained in a spiral marriage until 2023.