Meri Reads Text She Sent Kody After Terminating Marriage

Meri Brown is sharing new particulars surrounding her resolution to terminate her three-decades-long marriage to Kody Brown.

The businesswoman, 53, candidly mentioned the couple’s religious separation as she met with mates Jenn and Brandi through the Sunday, Dec. 15, episode of Sister Wives.

Meri, who legally divorced Kody, 55, in 2014, famous that “throughout the week, he goes, ‘Why did you do it so quick?’ … He’s like, ‘I do not perceive why you probably did it so quick. You have a man on the aspect ready?'”

But she discovered his feedback to be “insulting” as a result of he had “no curiosity” in sustaining their marriage, noting that this was “the one different possibility.”

The actuality star then revealed she had texted him after she acquired the official termination of their marriage by their church. “I texted him and he referred to as me inside 20 minutes,” she revealed.

“It was a very good textual content. … Do you wish to hear it?” Meri continued, earlier than going to retrieve her cellphone. Upon returning to her seat between her mates on the sofa, she started studying the message.

“I stated this. I’m gonna learn it again. ‘Hi Kody, simply wished to observe up from the textual content I despatched a pair weeks in the past. Just wished to let you already know that I had a dialog with the management in Utah as we speak and the official launch was granted. I’m brokenhearted that our life got here to this. I’ll all the time love and respect you. Thank you for a few years of pleasure. I hope you actually can have peace now and I launch you from any accountability or fear about me. I acquired this.'”

Meri revealed in a latest season 19 episode that she opted to terminate her marriage by the household’s church, explaining that she was “granted what known as in our church, a launch, which is mainly the equal of a divorce.”

“It was a really, very laborious dialog, laborious in that means heartbreaking as a result of this isn’t what I wished to do. This will not be what I supposed after I married Kody,” she continued. “Back in 2014, Kody and I did do a authorized divorce, and for me, that complete course of was purely for the truth that he may then marry Robyn [Brown] legally after which undertake her three older children. But our religious marriage, our religious ceiling was nonetheless intact.”

In a latest dialog with PEOPLE, Meri — who formally introduced the couple’s separation in January 2023 months after his marriages with Christine Brown and Janelle Brown dissolved — stated that the now exes are ” pleasant and sort with one another” when in the identical area.

“I do not assume that it is inauthentic in any respect. It’s simply not at a spot that we’re calling one another and texting and being like, ‘Hey, pal, how’s it going? What are you doing as we speak?'” she defined. “It’s not that sort of a relationship, however after we are in one another’s area, after we do must work together. It’s completely high quality.”

“I’m very snug with him. It’s not awkward so far as that goes, however we’re simply not mates. Certainly not mates. You know what I imply? I’m proud of it,” she added.

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Sister Wives airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.