In A Sister Wives Sneak Peek, Kody 'Breaks Down' Over Meri's Move (2024)

As Episode 11 of Sister Wives Season 19 approaches, TLC has released so many teasers that we can only assume Sunday's episode has no shortage of action.

Earlier this week, we covered last week's end of episode preview, in which Meri and Kody engaged in what could only be called "weird flirting."

In our coverage, we noted that the teaser left us with so many questions — a few of which were answered (or intensified) in another Sister Wives Episode 11 sneak peek.

Yes, there was a completely different sneak peek of Kody helping out at Meri's house for moving day, a day which just so happened to fall on what would have been their 33rd anniversary.

The teaser and sneak peek were both very unexpected in content and tone, considering how fraught things have been between Kody and his first wife, Meri, for quite some time.

In Episode 5, "The Year Of Release," Meri is finally granted a dissolution for her marriage to Kody — the logistics of their divorce have been a big focus of Season 19.

We've recapped each episode if you need some context:

In the preview at the end of last week's episode (Episode 10), Kody and Meri are seemingly happy ... but at the very end, it looked like Kody abruptly lost his composure and became emotional.

Meri's Final Goodbye Finally Hits Kody

On Wednesday, TLC quietly dropped a sneak peek: "Kody Breaks Down As Meri Leaves."

It opened with a confessional featuring Meri:

Meri's eyes are red, suggesting that she isn't unmoved by their goodbye, either.

She looks at the camera and says:

"You know, this is, like, the final. Like, the final final. I'm done in Flagstaff, my marriage with him is done, I'm starting this new life."

Cut to Meri's living room, where she, Kody, her brother-in-law Nathan, and her friend Jenn Sullivan are gathered.

At this point, Kody appears to begin panicking, but not immediately — he starts to speak, but can't find words:

Meri hugs Nathan, Nathan shakes Jenn's hand, and Jenn starts to tell Nathan: "It was fun hanging out with you today."

In this short span of time, Kody's facial expressions rapidly change, and he becomes almost child-like in tone as Meri, Jenn, and Nathan hug and shake hands.

Kody cuts over Jenn in a pleading voice, as if he cannot believe the scene unfolding before his eyes has legitimately come to pass, and his voice cracks:

Meri goes to his side and they hug tightly as Kody fights back tears and says their marriage was a "great run" (debatable), and that he's not "gonna let [losing Meri] get [him] down."

Meri turns to Kody and says: "It always blows me away that you get emotional like this. I just don't understand."

From there, Kody's faltering grasp on his emotions collapses hard, and he starts fumbling his words, leading to the following exchange:

[Kody] "It's just, I'm looking at my life, and it feels ... not turned upside down, it feels like everything ... just, we had something."

[Meri]: "We had something really good."

[Kody begins crying in earnest.]

[Kody]: "We had something special ... and it feels like it all just went to s***, sort of. You know? And, uh, it was just one thing, and then another, and then another thing ..."

As Kody continues speaking, the cameras cut to Jenn and Nathan, both of whom are engaged in an intense study of the wall opposite Kody and Meri, both actually shielding their eyes.

Kody tells Meri that he's "glad" they "can be friends," and he's "glad" that Meri is his "favorite ex-wife," but that it's "the weirdest thing to be in that place," and "it's just heartbreaking, in a way."

Before the clip ends almost mid-sentence, Kody tells Meri that he feels like three years prior, "it just seemed like everybody else just went 'this isn't important.'"

Due to the sudden cutoff, we'll have to wait for Episode 11 of Sister Wives to find out if Meri took the bait or not and how she responded to what Kody said, because it almost sounded like he was trying to say that Meri abandoned him.

Sister Wives

TV-PG

Reality TV

Drama

TMDB User Rating

61

Release Date

September 16, 2010

Main Genre

Reality

Cast

Kody Brown , madison Brown , Janelle Brown , Tamron Hall , Aspyn Brown , Robyn Brown , Andrea Canning , Gwendlyn Brown , meri brown , Logan Brown , Christine Brown , Sukanya Kirshnan

Seasons

19

Website

https://go.tlc.com/show/sister-wives-tlc

Cinematographer

Doug Monroe, Callan Griffiths, Richard Alexander Walkling, Anthony Derosa, Matthew Thompson, Ray Farmer

Distributor

TLC

Filming Locations

Nevada, Utah, Arizona

Main Characters

Timothy Gibbons, Kirk Streb, Deanie Wilcher, Christopher Poole, Bill Hayes

Producer

Deanie Wilcher

Production Company

Puddle Monkey Productions, Figure 8 Films

Number of Episodes

167

Network

TLC