Meri Brown’s scandalous catfishing incident is rearing its ugly head as soon as once more.
As longtime Sister Wives followers will keep in mind, Meri entered into an internet relationship in 2015.
During a tough patch in her marriage to Kody — coincidentally proper after he wed his fourth spouse, Robyn — Meri met somebody on-line who she believed to be a person named Sam Cooper.
However, Sam really turned out to be a girl by the identify of Jackie Overton.
Unbeknownst to Meri, she carried on an intimate on-line relationship with a girl for six months, who Meri claimed was urging her to go away Kody and their household behind.
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Meri’s catfishing incident rocked the Brown household to the core and created much more distance between herself and Kody.
Meri Brown says ‘a lot crap was made up about’ her catfishing incident
Although it’s been almost a decade since Meri was duped by Jackie Overton, the web affair stays a subject of dialog to at the present time.
During Sunday’s episode of Sister Wives, Meri introduced up her catfishing incident whereas discussing how she met a good friend on-line lately.
“So I used to be catfished fairly just a few years in the past with an enormous fats liar,” Meri recalled.
The 52-year-old LuLaRoe retailer added that, in her thoughts, the model of occasions made public wasn’t totally true.
Sister Wives confession: Meri nonetheless has a ‘arduous time’ speaking about her catfishing scandal
“That complete story was so utterly blown out of proportion, and a lot crap was made up about it,” Meri confessed. “And I nonetheless form of have a tough time speaking about it simply because everyone has their opinions about it.”
Meri added that she’s come to grips with all of it, although, as a result of she is aware of her fact. But Meri additionally hinted that a few of the Browns nonetheless maintain it in opposition to her.
“Like, even with our household, a few of our family has their very own opinions about [it],” Meri added.
These days, although, Meri has gotten sensible about her on-line interactions. It’s a part of her job to talk with individuals on-line for her companies, however she makes it a prerequisite to video chat with them first earlier than assembly in particular person.
Although Meri has labored to place her catfishing incident behind her, Jackie Overton continues to be talking out about their relationship, and her model of occasions doesn’t match up with Meri’s.
Just final 12 months, Jackie accused Meri of mendacity about their dalliance, claiming that they had a full-on affair and that she didn’t catfish Meri in any method.
“There was no catfish,” Jackie tweeted in December 2022. “Meri lied to cowl up the affair.”
Jackie went on to say that Meri informed her how “abusive” Kody could possibly be and that she witnessed him “yelling and screaming” at Meri one time throughout a telephone dialog.
Regardless of how issues went down between Meri and Jackie, their interactions had been sufficient to push Kody even additional away from Meri, and it performed a serious function of their cut up after 33 years of marriage.
Sister Wives airs on Sundays at 10/9c on TLC.
