Meri Brown Admits She's Unsure Whether Robyn Actually Wanted Her to Remain in Polygamy: 'Things Were Not Matching Up'

The 'Sister Wives' star said there was "a lot of confusion" following her decision to leave Kody

Sister Wives star Meri Brown is opening up about where her relationship with ex-husband, Kody Brown, and his wife, Robyn Brown, now stands.

Meri, 53, announced her separation from Kody after 32 years together in January 2023. And while he remains with his third wife, Robyn, Meri said she is unsure what Robyn really thought about the former pair's split.

"I don’t know. I don’t know," Meri, who once had a close bond with Robyn, said on the July 29 episode of The Sarah Fraser Show when asked whether Robyn was actually sad to see her go. "I think that she did want me to stay. I feel like that she was sad. I feel like that she had this idea, when she came in the family, of, you know, this big plural family. I really think that."

However, Meri admitted that "things were not matching up either" when it came to Robyn's behavior, and the same was true with Kody. "There was a lot of confusion, let's just say."

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As for whether she keeps in touch with Robyn, 45, or her ex-husband — with whom she shares one child, 29-year-old Leon Brown — Meri said, "I've seen them on occasion and talked and texted a little bit but it's not, you know, I'm in this place where I'm moving forward with my life."

"There's aspects of my life that they still need to be involved in, but my day-to-day is my best friend or my day-to-day is my people that are helping me to move forward," she shared. "And I don't want to interact with people that are not helping me to move forward."

Ahead of the premiere of the most recent season of Sister Wives last August, Robyn spoke to PEOPLE about how she was handling the transition from plurality to just being with Kody, as Christine Brown left Kody in 2021, followed by Janelle Brown in December 2022 and then Meri soon after

"It's been hell," Robyn said of how her husband was handling the three consecutive breakups. "There have been times he's tried to self-sabotage and sabotage us. I've had to work hard not to let him."

"I feel like we failed," she admitted. "The commitment we made – we were all in this together. We screwed it up."

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Kody, meanwhile, told PEOPLE he "could have done a lot better" and that the three breakups were "painful."

"But you have to hope we still have a friendship in the future. Because we're bound forever through our kids," he said, referring to his six kids with Janelle, 55; six kids with Christine, 52; and two children and three step-children with Robyn.

On earlier episodes of the podcast, Meri also chatted with host Sarah Fraser about her recent breakup with her boyfriend Amos, who was the first man she dated following her split from Kody, 55.

Meri admitted that she gave her now-ex a warning before they went public with their relationship, as her best friend Jenn Sullivan said Amos was "sweetly naive" about it all.

"I knew what to expect, she knew what to expect, but he had no idea," Meri said, noting that she tried to prepare him as best as she could. "We tried to just [be] like, 'Hey, listen, this is what's going to happen. If you want to go public with the fact that we're dating, they're going to make things up. It just is what it is."

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Meri went public with Amos in January and revealed that they had been dating since October 2023. But by February, they had gone their separate ways.

The reality star shared the news on Instagram as she reflected on a week of "hard truths" and "difficult conversations," writing, "I honor and care about the past four months, who I spent it with and what I learned about myself through it."

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