Kody Brown Once Claimed He Never Loved Meri Brown

Love is meant to be multiplied, not subtracted. And yet Kody admitted he did just that with his previous claims that he never loved his ex wives. 

“It’s more of like a knee jerk reaction,” he said during the June 15 one-on-one special, insisting he was reeling from them “trashing” him. “I was deep in the throes of reactionary vitriol for the past three years.”

Which is why, he said, he alluded to Meri that he never truly loved her while they were spending their anniversary together. 

Recounting the conversation to a pal in a September 2024 episode, Meri insisted she knew he loved her.

But if he didn’t, the mom to Leon Brown said in a confessional, why did he ever propose? 

“When a single young man meets a single young woman, why would he choose to marry her and just affirm and force love for her when he didn’t love her?” she wondered. “How cruel is that? To pick me out of a crowd and just be like, ‘I pick you to try to force myself to love for the next 32 years’?” 

Kody’s response, he shared in his own confessional: “Oh, Meri has her little accusations now.”

Though, he would share that they never enjoyed a honeymoon period.

“This marriage was on the rocks the entire marriage,” he insisted on the Oct. 20 episode. “And how would I know that? Because I had such a better relationship with Janelle, with Christine, with Robyn.”

But he stayed out of fear, noting, “Leadership will never allow you to marry again if you’re discarding wives.”