“There’s definitely no trust there for me.” That is what Meri Brown says in a preview clip for Sunday’s Sister Wives — and it lands like a door closing on the closest friendship she had left in the Brown family. After years of defending Robyn, Meri is finally saying out loud what she used to only hint at.
The Best Friend Meri Defended for Years
That is what makes it sting. Meri was by far the most devoted of the sister wives to Robyn, keeping their friendship alive until she left both Kody and Robyn in early 2023. Since then she has mostly held back — and in 2025 she pushed back when fans said she was “still protecting” them. The new clip suggests those days are over.
“I don’t want to think of anybody as being vindictive or calculating or manipulative,” Meri says. “I don’t think that I could ever have a conversation with Robyn and get complete truth from her. Same with Kody.” Meri is dating again on her own terms now — and calling the old friendship what she believes it was.
The 2015 Wound That Never Healed
The distrust did not start on Sunday. At last season’s Tell-All, Meri said one reason she no longer trusts Robyn is that she believes Robyn played a part in her 2015 catfishing scandal — the Season 6 storyline in which Meri, still married to Kody, fell for someone called Sam online, who turned out to be a woman.
Meri said she felt “betrayed.” “I would have conversations with her and then, my private conversation, things would be found out,” she said. “There were times that I would have a conversation with Robyn that the catfisher would find out about.” Only Robyn knew those details, Meri said — which is why she now traces the leak back to her.
Team Meri vs. Team Robyn: The Argument Fans Can’t Settle
That is where the fandom splits. Team Meri’s case writes itself: she defended Robyn longest, shared her most painful secret, and the secret kept surfacing where it should never have reached. If you believe Meri, the friendship broke in 2015 — it just took eleven years to say so on camera. Sunday’s episode sparked its own fan debate, and this clip is its sharpest edge.
YOU MAY LIKEMykelti’s Truth Bomb: Are You Watching Sister Wives for the Moms — or to Yell at Kody?Team Robyn has its own receipts, though — from Robyn herself. At the Tell-All, Robyn insisted she had always had Meri’s back, saying she only tried to help by pushing Kody to work things out. She denied any part in the scandal, telling host Suki Krishnan, “[I] don’t know what she’s talking about … that’s news to me …” Robyn has not publicly responded to Meri’s new claims. So whose version of the friendship do you believe?
Cordial With Kody, Finished With Robyn?
Here is the twist: Meri is not done with Kody. She hopes they can be comfortable with each other as the parents of their only child, Leon. “Not that I’d want to, you know, be his wife again, by any means,” she says. “But we just have a history.”
Earlier this season, Meri revealed Kody and Robyn no longer communicate with her — and never told her they were done filming. “…you know who’s not willing to talk to me? Kody and Robyn,” she said. “And then they’re like, ‘Umm, also, we’re not going to film with you guys anymore.'” Janelle learned the same news by email — a note, after the decision was already made.
So here is the question Meri’s clip leaves hanging: if the woman you trusted most with your secrets is the one person your private words kept leaking through to, is there any friendship left to save — or did the catfishing scandal end it eleven years ago? Pick a side: Team Meri or Team Robyn?
