‘Sister Wives’ Christine Brown Cut Meri Out Of Her Life

‘Sister Wives’ Christine Brown Cut Meri Out Of Her Life

Sister Wives star Christine Brown is opening up about the demise of her friendship with Meri Brown, after exiting the family. 

Christine and Meri’s relationship has been strained for years and after Christine decided to dump their former husband, Kody Brown, her relationship with Meri also ended. And Christine explains why during the Sister Wives tell-all special that airs on Sunday, Dec. 18.

Meri and Kody married in 1990, the same year they met Christine through a church youth group. Christine joined the marriage four years later in 1994 as Kody’s third wife.

Sister Wives tell-all host, Sukanya Krishnan, asks Meri if she feels like Christine also left her when she divorced Kody in 2021.

“At the time that she first was telling us, that’s really how I felt. I felt very betrayed by her and that she was leaving me too,” Meri explains during the reunion special. “Cause she has always said, ‘I didn’t just want the man. I want the sister wives.'”

Meri shares that she and Christine were close at one time. 

“I know what kind of relationship she and I have had in the past. It’s been fun. It’s not been super super deep, but it’s been a lot of fun and I miss that. I missed that for a lot of years with her,” Meri tells the host.

The reunion host questions what exactly drove a wedge in their relationship and why they weren’t able to repair it.

“I don’t know exactly what the deal is,” Meri, 51, replies.

“You know what you did,” Sukanya Krishnan pushes back.

“Well, I mean, I have not always been the perfect person or the perfect wife or the perfect sister wife. It just kind of comes down to we’re just not safe with each other and I don’t think there was one thing. It was over time,” Meri confesses.

“Safe with each other cause you don’t trust each other?” the host asks.

“Probably, yeah,” Meri responds.

Sukanya Krishnan then gets Christine’s side of the fallout — she questions why Christine thinks Meri feels betrayed.

“Cause I ended the friendship. I ended the relationship, I did. I ended it. It wasn’t safe for me anymore and I ended it and I just told her straight up, ‘No, we’re not going to be friends cause I don’t trust you and I’m not gonna do that to myself anymore,'” Christine explains.

Sukanya Krishnan wants to know if the friendship with Meri is repairable or is the door closed.

“For me, yeah (it was closed). We tried a little bit here and there in Vegas but her treatment of me wasn’t nice. She wouldn’t be nice to me. She was just putting me down a lot in public situations. Especially if her family was there she would just put me down,” Christine shares.

Christine describes that she was fed up with Meri.

“When I hit my wall, I’m done,” Christine says.

Sukanya asks Christine if a friendship with Meri was worth fighting for.

“No, because then sure she would be nice for a while but then she would just come out again and I just never knew who to expect. And it was just too stressful,” Christine says.

Watch a snippet of the scene below. Press play.

During Season 17, Christine told Meri, Janelle and Robyn that she was leaving Kody after 25 years of marriage and relocating to Utah. This announcement was met with a mix of emotions from her former sister wives — especially Meri and Robyn.

“I feel angry and I feel a little betrayed and I feel like I understand where she’s coming from,” Meri Brown said in a talking head confessional. “I’m hurt that she doesn’t see value enough in our family.”

Meri added, “She doesn’t want to work on anything. I have seen her non-acceptance of Robyn and I have seen her disdain for me through the years. As much as it hurts me, I’m glad to know where she actually stands.”

Part one of the Sister Wives tell-all special airs on TLC, Sunday December 18, at 10 p.m. ET. 

 

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