It's been a long time coming for Sister Wives star Meri Brown having anything positive to say about her relationship with her ex-husband, Kody Brown, but she recently shared with PEOPLE that their relationship is "comfortable" -- just don't call them friends.
Meri Brown says she's "friendly and kind" with ex-husband Kody Brown
Even though Meri Brown and her ex-husband Kody Brown have been split since 2023, Meri says that the two of them are on relatively good terms, even if she wouldn't consider them to be the best of friends. She told PEOPLE that when they have to be around each other for any reason, there's no bad blood between them and the exes have managed to keep things civil.
"It's just not at a place that we're calling each other and texting and being like, 'Hey, friend, how's it going? What are you doing today?" Meri told the publication and said that the two of them don't have "that kind of relationship" that might lead to the pair being super friendly and going out of their way to talk to each other.
But when they do have to be around each other for any reason, she said things are "friendly and kind" to one another.
Meri was the first wife of Kody Brown and the only one that he was legally married to until the pair got divorced in 2014 so that Kody could marry his current wife, Robyn, in order to adopt her children. Despite being legally divorced in 2014, it was nearly a decade before the two of them called it quits on their relationship and Meri only ended their marriage through the LDS church to get a release from her marriage to Kody in 2024.
Why Meri Brown says she doesn't miss Flagstaff
When Meri Brown was preparing to move out of Flagstaff, Arizona, she called the city "beautiful" but admitted that she never really felt like the city was "for" her and that she doesn't regret choosing to leave the city now that she's not married to Kody anymore.
Now that she's left the city, she spoke to PEOPLE about the fact that she left it behind and why she doesn't regret her move. One of the big reasons, she said, is that she never made any friends of her own while she was living there and considering the complicated family situation she was in at the time, it's no surprise that it must have been a fairly isolating experience.
"I lived there for three or four years and I never made any friends there," Meri Brown revealed about the city but said that she loved the beauty and nature of the city, but didn't miss anything else about it.
"Why keep living in a town where I don't know anybody, I don't have friends? Kody and I are completely separating. I'm not going to be a part of the family. There's no point in me being there," Meri said of the fact that she had only moved to Flagstaff because Kody and the other wives were moving there, so she had the entire family there with her at the time.
"It just wasn't for me. I moved there because the family did. It was not ever on my radar, 'Oh, Flagstaff, Arizona. We should live there,'" she told the publication but went on to say that buying her bed and breakfast in Parowan wasn't just to give her an excuse to leave Flagstaff.
"I think it's really important to find your place, especially in this age that we're in. We're all in our 50s, it's like, 'Just find your place. Do what makes you happy,'" she told the publication and said that buying Lizzie's Heritage Inn was just that thing for her and that it's been keeping her busy since she left Flagstaff.
"I did buy it because it was always a dream of mine to have my old family home back in the family, so it made sense at the time," Meri Brown told PEOPLE about her major business move to buy and run Lizzie's Heritage Inn.