<p id=”par-1_69″>Kody Brown has spent 19 seasons of <em><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/sister-wives/”>Sister Wives </a></em>behaving increasingly awful. Fans of the series have denounced his treatment of his first three wives and the children he shared with them. Still, things were apparently far worse than what viewers were initially privy to. In a recent episode, Meri Brown revealed that <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/when-did-kody-brown-sister-wives-persona-turn.html/?swcfpc=1″>Kody Brown threatened her </a>years ago, and he apparently tried to make good on those threats.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-meri-brown-insists-the-joke-is-on-kody-brown-after-he-threatened-her”>Meri Brown insists the ‘joke’ is on Kody Brown after he threatened her</h2>
<p id=”par-2_97″>In the Jan. 5 episode of <em>Sister Wives</em>, Meri Brown opened up about just how disastrous her marriage to Kody Brown was. She revealed to a friend that Kody Brown had threatened her in 2011. The former polygamist told Meri that he was going to be “horrible” to her <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/sister-wives-meri-brown-tugs-at-viewers-heartstrings-with-sad-confessional-revelations.html/”>for 20 years </a>because he found her “difficult” to live with for most of their marriage. She claims Kody insisted she was “mean” and that he planned to spend 20 years being mean to her as payback. Only then, she said, would he consider working on their marriage.</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high” width=”1200″ height=”891″ src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Kody-and-Meri-young.jpg?strip=all&quality=89″ alt=”Meri Brown and Kody Brown hugging during their early marriage” class=”wp-image-3603330″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Meri Brown and Kody Brown | TLC/YouTube </figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-3_59″>Meri’s friend, Jenn Sullivan, who has garnered a fanbase of her own during her recent appearance on the show, was appalled. She wondered how Kody could make such a bold threat. Meri made light of the situation, joking that the “joke” was on Kody because she didn’t stick around long enough for him to make good on his threat.</p>
<p id=”par-4_55″>Meri revealed Kody made the threat in 2011 when the family moved <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/sister-wives-gwendlyn-brown-sets-record-straight-about-brown-familys-las-vegas-move.html/”>from Lehi, Utah, to Las Vegas, Nevada.</a> She announced the end of her marriage in 2023. Technically, Kody only got the chance to be “horrible” to her for 12 years. Still, twelve years was far too long to put up with Kody Brown.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-meri-brown-appears-to-have-grown-and-healed-following-the-end-of-her-marriage”>Meri Brown appears to have grown and healed following the end of her marriage</h2>
<p id=”par-5_67″>While Meri Brown insists she got the last laugh in the situation, fans can’t help but feel sad for Meri. After all, it feels like she wasted many of the best years of her life on a failing marriage and a man who was openly hostile toward her. In the years since she left Kody Brown behind, it seems she’s done some healing and grown pretty contemplative.</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Meri-Brown-life-driving.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Meri Brown is seen driving during a recent episode of ‘Sister Wives'” class=”wp-image-3735753″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Meri Brown | TLC/YouTube </figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-6_67″>Meri, who often lashed out at viewers who called her desperate and pathetic, has finally gained the insight to see where they might have been coming from. In the same episode, Meri admitted she can see why viewers were so frustrated that she hadn’t taken the hint. Still, she insists she was trying to “make the best of it” and give Kody time to figure things out.</p>
<p id=”par-7_91″>Meri announced <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/sister-wives-meri-brown-regrets-1-thing-legal-divorce-kody-brown.html/”>the end of her marriage</a> in January 2023, although she moved away from Flagstaff months before that. Since then, she’s settled into her new home in Parowan, Utah, and is dating. She had a brief relationship that didn’t work out. Still, the reality TV star appears to be enjoying her freedom and is hopeful about what is to come. She said she is committed to making the rest of her life better than the last 20 years of her marriage. She appears to be following through on that promise.</p>