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This article contains mentions of suicide.

“We hope this helps to have all of society understand it.”

Kody Brown in a confessional during episode of TLC’s Sister Wives

Over the course of numerous seasons spanning more than a decade, the show has attracted legions of fans.

Sadly, that pregnancy proved to be unviable.

I was devastated," Meri wrote.

Meri and Kody Brown sitting on a couch in episode of Sister Wives

“Suddenly, I felt the weight of the world on my shoulders.”

“I had a thousand-yard stare, and I wasn’t engaged into the experience,” he recalled.

“It was hard.”

Christine and Kody Brown sitting on a couch in Sister Wives

Kody, however, worried about how divorcing Meri would impact their relationship.

“Nothing is going to change for you and I?”

I know it’s not the end."

Kody Brown posing with wives on step-and-repeat holding arrangement of paper dolls on either side of a king figurine

“This burden came off me, and I thought, ‘Wow.

Okay, it’s over,'” Janelle said.

“If [Christine] hadn’t left, I might’ve stayed.”

Kody Brown posing with wives Janelle and Christine on step-and-repeat

“But they made choices that separated us.

And maybe I made choices that separated us, but they eventually moved on.”

That number winnowed down to one when Meri followed Janelle and Christine Brown out the door.

Closeup of Meri Brown smiling with Kody Brown on step-and-repeat

“I really feel like I was emotionally abandoned by him many, many years ago.”

In a 2024 episode, Kody became reflective about what had gone wrong between him and his wife No.

“I didn’t know who she was when we got married.

Gabe Brown talking in confessional during an episode of Sister Wives

She was very different,” he said in a confessional interview.

“I think just there’s some baggage that Meri had that I didn’t know about initially.

I felt like I could live with it.

Madison Brown Brush talking during a Sister Wives special

I can’t live in a world where she is constantly angry at me.”

“[We’re] not good.

Not talking,” he said.

Roby Brown and Kody Brown talking in the snow during an episode of Sister Wives

“It’s like one of those relationships where we’ve gotta do a lot of work.”

By 2024, Kody’s relationship with Gabe was hanging by a thread.

“I was like, ‘Forgive me for what?’

Garrison Brown smiling holding the straps of his backpack on his back

Like, what’s going on here?

And I’m perfectly okay with that.”

“I am only guilty of not falling madly in love with their mothers.”

Robyn and Kody Brown standing outside among trees during an episode of Sister Wives

“Our family was killed by gossip.”

“A snake only sheds its skin to be a bigger snake,” she wrote.

“If others fall victim and walk away from you because of that, let them …

Kody Brown sitting on porch during an episode of Sister Wives

Sooner or later the snake will bite them too.”

“No one should be married while they’re going through a divorce,” she said.

“It’s been hell.”

Kody Brown was also having a difficult time with his new one-wife reality.

“It’s been tough between us.”

“He was a bright spot in the lives of all who knew him.

Our loss will leave such a big hole in our lives, that it takes our breath away.”

“I want to go out to dinner again.

I want to sit down.

I want to have a beer,” Kody said.

“I want [Garrison] to try and make me laugh because he was that way.

The only regret is just, gosh, I would just do that more often.”

Kody Brown was forced to sell his beloved home, Coyote Pass

In August 2024,E!

Newsreported that Kody Brown and remaining wife Robyn Brown had quietly listed their home in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Meanwhile, all the ambitious plans he had to develop the property had apparently evaporated.

“I loved [our situation],” he said.

“It just seemed like not everybody else did.”

“It broke my heart that we couldn’t transcend our differences,” he said.

“It’s part of life.

I loved the life we have.”

“Maybe I’ll find that optimism for the future,” he said.

“In the end, hopefully we just love each other and let each other move on.”