Sister Wives‘ Kody Brown may have spent his life in sales, but his ex-wives aren’t buying what he’s been peddling this season.
Namely, the idea that while he was multiplying his love to stretch from first wife Meri Brown to fourth Robyn Brown, he actually didn’t have strong feelings for all of his spouses.
“He doesn’t want to admit that he really did love me, you know, and it’s fine,” Meri explained while chatting with host Sukanya Krishnan during the TLC series’ May 25 one-on-one special. “My big thing is why don’t you just say for once that you did and you changed your mind? Because that happens. That’s OK.”
It’s also okay, continued the 54-year-old, that after marrying her, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown, he met Robyn and fell “in this deeper love.”
What she takes issue with, she stressed, is that the father of 18 is “minimizing me and our relationship and the fact that we started this family, by saying it never happened.”
Even his sole remaining wife Robyn isn’t entirely standing by her man on this one.
“As far as saying that he never loved his wives, yeah, I feel like that was rewriting the past,” she acknowledged in her own sitdown with Sukanya. “I feel like that’s just pain talking. I feel like that’s bitterness talking, anger talking.”
Because back when they were courting in the mid-aughts, she noted, “He actually let me know quite often that he loved his wives.”
Gabe Ginsberg/Getty ImagesIt just turns out that line between love and hate is awfully thin.
“It’s not a matter of rewriting the past,” Kody explained to Sukanya. “It’s a matter of where I was in the breakup. I am definitely guilty of going through a breakup scenario where I was like, ‘I never loved them.’ My state of mind there, it’s like just the heart felt, like I’m digging in my feelings and going, I never loved them. And that’s because of the space that we were in.”
Further removed from the three splits—Christine announced the end of their marriage in November 2021, with Janelle and Meri revealing their breakups the following year—he can see he just fell that much harder for Robyn, the divorcée he wed in 2010.
“Your relationship with all your children is different,” insisted the father of 18. “Your relationship with all your friends is different. There are ones that do different things that have different fulfillments and stuff like that.”
With Robyn, he continued, “It’s like you find higher love and then everybody just slaps you down for it. I’ll tell you what, there’s a divine aspect about my relationship with Robyn and we have been b–ch slapped for it.”
So now he feels like fighting back.
“I love this woman and I want peace in this relationship,” he explained. “But I’m to the point where I’m walking around flipping two birds because I am so sick and tired of being guilted for loving Robyn.”
In other words, he’s not ready to take the blame for the demise of his previous marriages. With three more parts to the Sister Wives‘ One-on-One special more fingers will be pointed.
In the meantime, drink up the tea that Kody and his current and former spouses have already spilled this season.
