Meri Brown is sharing some updates on her life after season 18 of Sister Wives and the heartbreaking aftermath. Meri appeared in a three-part interview on The Sarah Fraser Show. There, she talked at length about the end days of her and Kody Brown‘s marriage. She also talked about parenting her trans child, Leon, and where she stands with Robyn Brown after walking away from the plural marriage.
Meri Brown and Kody Brown share one child — 29-year-old Leon. Leon is transgender and queer and uses they/them pronouns. They first shared the news about their identity in 2022.
Prior to coming out, Leon made the decision to no longer participate in Sister Wives. While some viewers still ask about updates earnestly, others have shared hateful opinions about Leon.
The commentary that I get about Leon is very polarizing. I mean, it is…it’s going to be that way. I always appreciate the support, the comments of support, that I get, and obviously, I don’t appreciate the hate that comes at me. I just, I don’t think hate has any purpose or any value, you know?
Meri Brown, The Sarah Fraser Show
Meri has learned to support Leon by respecting their privacy. That means keeping their mother-child relationship to herself, in many instances.
I don’t talk about them a lot just because they kind of want to remain as private– and have their own life– as possible. But Leon and I have a really good relationship.
Meri Brown, The Sarah Fraser Show
Meri did not comment on rumors that Kody and Leon no longer have a relationship since Leon’s decision to have gender-affirming surgery in early 2023.
Meri Did Confirm She and Kody Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together (Like, Ever)
Meri Brown channeled her best Taylor Swift as she addressed rumors that she’s considering reconciling with her ex-husband. She even told listeners she could “promise” that it wouldn’t happen.
The former plural wife acknowledged fans think she was “stupid” about how long she let the relationship go on before calling it quits. She also talked about the awkwardness of the deciding conversation between herself, Robyn, and Kody about the dissolution of the marriage.
Up until fairly recently, prior to that [conversation]–- within that year–- I was in a place of like, he hadn’t spoken to me so definitively. I’d heard tangents, and I’d heard temper tantrums and stuff like that, but he and I never had that up until that year. We hadn’t had those definite conversations. Like, he was not saying those things to me. Sure, I was seeing it on the show, I watched the show …
You might think that [I’m stupid], but I’m not. You know, I see the things that are being said. But also, I deserve to have those things said to me. So I kind of made that happen.
Meri Brown, The Sarah Fraser Show
In her awkward last stand with Kody Brown and Robyn Brown, Meri ended the plural marriage. She was on a path to move forward and knew it was the best for her and Kody. That said, Meri does seem to feel a little bad about how things played out for Robyn.
I don’t know, I feel like I think that she did want me to stay. I feel that she was sad, I feel that she had this idea when she came into the family of this big plural family, I really think that. But then things were not matching up either. And I got that from Kody, too.
Meri Brown, The Sarah Fraser Show
These days, Meri says things are cordial enough that she can text either of them “a little bit.” That said, there’s not the place for the two in her future that there was in the past.
