Sister Wives' Meri Brown's Surprising 'Severance Package' Request to Ex Kody Brown
Meri Brown is asking for some compensation — though not financial — from her ex-husband, Kody Brown .
On the Sunday, November 17, episode of Sister Wives, Meri, 53, asked Kody, 55, if he would assist her in moving from Flagstaff, Arizona, to Parowan, Utah, explaining the help would be her "severance" from their marriage.
"I was wondering if you'd be willing to help me load some stuff, and then would you be interested in driving a truck up there for me?" Meri asked the reality TV personality. "Call it my severance package."
Kody, who seemed caught off guard by the request, laughed and asked, "On what, our marriage?"
The pair, who share one child — Leon Brown, 29 — married in 1990. They legally ended their union in 2014 so Kody could marry his fourth wife, Robyn Brown, 46, and adopt her four children. In 2023, Meri officially left Kody, ending their 32-year spiritual marriage. Along with Meri, Kody was in a plural marriage with Christine Brown, who left him in 2021, and Janelle Brown, who left in 2022. Kody has 18 kids between all his wives.
In his confessional, the Brown family patriarch admitted he didn't know how to react to the comment. "It's a weird space to be with the severance package thing because I don't know if this is passive-aggressive, or if it's just aggressive, or if it's a joke, and I don't know, and I haven't known my whole marriage," he stated.
For her part, Meri told cameras she would consider things square between her and Kody if he lent a hand in the move. "I failed to ask for alimony when we got the legal divorce, so I'm kind of out that," she confessed. "I put 30 years into this, like, help me move and get out of here, then we'll just be good to go. We'll call it even, I guess. I don't know."
Meri also reflected on the end of her marriage to Kody, claiming he purposefully pushed her away so she would want a divorce.
"He didn't have the integrity, the courage, to actually sit down with me and have a conversation, say this is not going to work," she recalled. "It was him trying to do everything he could to push me away so that I would be the one to leave so that he could say, 'Yeah, I didn't do anything. She's the one who left.'"
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