Meri Brown and Kody Brown.Photo: TLC (2)
Meri Brownhas long moved on from thecatfishing scandalthatshook her marriage— but not everyone has.
Kody Brownadmitted he’s still “extremely angry” about the situation on Sunday’sSister Wives Look Back: How We Startedspecial. “The experience of Meri’s catfish makes me extremely angry,” he said, eight year later. “Cause she’s in full denial of what actually happened."
According to Meri, “Everybody thought that I was leaving the family, and I was having an affair. And I wasn’t." It’s a point of contention for Kody to this day: “She had an online affair, which she now denies because she was a victim.”
“I’m going to clarify something here, and this is what a lot of people really misunderstand, and that is the fact that a lot of people look at the catfishing as a defining moment of the demise of our marriage or even the family,” she said. “And it’s really not, because there was a lot of things that were happening for years prior.”
She added, “[Looking] at that moment as the thing that broke the marriage is very inaccurate.”
In 2015, Meri struck up an online relationship with someone she thought was a man — but it was actually a woman deceiving her.
Meritold PEOPLEat the time: “During an emotional and vulnerable time earlier this year, I began speaking with someone online who turned out to be not who they said they were. I never met this person and I regret being drawn into this situation, but I hope because of it I can help others who find themselves in similar circumstances.”
In previous seasons of the show, Kody said the catfishing scandal started to “dissolve” their marriage to the point that he eventually relegated his relationship with Meri to aplatonicone.
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source: people.com
