Meri Brown wishes her ex-husband and second wife would talk to her hand.
In a matter of speaking.
The longtime Sister Wives cast member appeared on The Sarah Fraser Show on Monday and was asked where she stood with Kody Brown… about a year and a half since she and the father of 18 ended their marriage.
In response, Meri said she has “exchanged a few messages” with Kody and his wife, Robyn, but it’s not exactly a close relationship.
“I’m at this place where I’m moving forward with my life and there are aspects of my life that they still need to be involved in, but my day-to-day is my best friend,” the 53-year-old explained.
“My day to day life is about the people who help me move forward and I don’t want to interact with people who don’t help me move forward.”
Kody, as you may well know, was married to Meri from 1990 to 2014.
But he divorced his first wife so he could exchange vows with Robyn and legally adopt her children from a previous relationship.
Near the end of her romance with Kody — which was for very little a romance in the last decade; the two stopped having sex years ago — Meri now says she was getting mixed signals from Robyn.
“I feel like I think she wanted me to stay. I feel like she was sad and had this idea when she came into the family of a big plural family,” Meri said on July 29.
“But then (her actions) weren’t matching up. And I learned that from Kody, too. … There was a lot of confusion.”
In fact, Robyn has previously said she is in mourning about the failed state of their plural family.
However, Christine, Meri, and Janelle have all grown apart from Kody over the past three years or so — and each of them said Kody’s clear favoritism toward Robyn played a role in their decisions to end these spiritual marriages.
Meri and Kody are parents to a son named Leon.
The former has made it clear on several recent occasions that she is not close to any of his ex-sister wives.
But she’s not bitter either.
“Please know that there is peace in my heart and I hold no animosity towards Kody,” the TLC star wrote in January 2023, addressing followers who might want to tear her ex down:
“I am not, and I pray I never will be, in a place where I would enjoy making, or seeing you make, rude and demeaning comments about him.”
Brown also asked people to “consider the fact that we are real people with real lives and real emotions” amid the split:
“Please try to refrain from congratulating me on the end of my marriage. I value the relationship I had and look forward to moving into 2023 and my future with grace, kindness and power.”