In a watch-along of last week’s episode of Sister Wives hosted on the Patreon channel she shares with her husband Tony Padron, Mykelti Brown once again called out her former “stepmom” Meri and explained that, by slamming Meri on her social media, she is finally getting even for how Meri treated her while she was growing up.
“I am not, like, trying to be pro-Dad or anti-Meri,” Mykelti said during the livestream when the topic of Meri was brought up. “I typically am more pro-Dad and anti-Meri because, well, I have a very large past with Meri and she was not a good person to me, ever, and my dad was. He wasn’t always, but I had a lot of good moments with my dad so I’m allowed to be more forgiving toward him because of some of the good moments that I have had with him,” she said in the video, which was shared by @aycarambatlc on TikTok.
Mykelti went on to remind her viewers that Meri allegedly treated her poorly when she was a kid.
“I have not had good moments with Meri,” Mykelti said. “She was an awful person to me growing up so I probably need to have my revenge arc of her, and this is the best way that I can do it: speak publicly negatively about her. So, maybe I haven’t healed or moved on either, that’s what this is.”
Over the years, Mykelti and several of her siblings have made various claims about Meri and her treatment of Kody’s kids— particularly Mykelti— when they were younger. Back in November, Mykelti talked about Meri’s parenting style in an interview with the Pop Psych YouTube show, as The Ashley reported.
“Meri’s personality is very hard. She has a very aggressive personality,” Mykelti said in the interview. “Not physically but, like, ‘go in, get it done.’ It doesn’t matter your age; it doesn’t matter your capabilities. It doesn’t matter when she asks, you go in and you get it done. If you complain, you get in big trouble. If you don’t do it exactly to her specifications, you get in big trouble. If you have questions about how to do it better, you get in trouble. If you didn’t do it in a timely manner, you get in trouble.
“She was very, very hard and she was very strict,” she continued. “She tended to pick on me a lot, more so than the other kids. I couldn’t tell you why.”
In 2023, Mykelti’s brother Paedon said in an interview that “abrasive” and “kind of mean” were not strong enough words to describe Meri.
“They are not aggressive enough words…there’s definitely things I can’t say. But when I’ve gone into thorough detail with people [about what Meri did], it blew their mind…we were never safe around her,” Paedon said.
That same year, sister Gwendlyn wrote on Patreon that “Meri had moments where she was rude and scary but I don’t remember her getting physical with anyone except for Mykelti and that was only once.”
Mykelti disputed her sister’s claim on her Patreon, saying, “I don’t remember Meri ever being physically abusive to me, but she was very emotionally and verbally abusive to all of us when we were younger, until I think we got old enough and she stopped because, I don’t know, we were able to fight back or something I guess. We were just too old for her to continue.”
Commenters on Reddit and TikTok challenged Mykelti’s feelings toward Meri, with some pointing out Mykelti had Meri at her wedding and that Mykelti even worked for Meri for a while as an adult. (Mykelti posted pictures from the wedding with her mother Christine and stepmoms Meri, Janelle and Robyn at her wedding on several Mother’s Days.)
Others had sympathy not just for Mykelti but for all the members of the Brown family, blaming the complicated family dynamic for the issues between the two women and for Mykelti’s seemingly warmer feelings toward her father.
Though currently estranged from her father Kody, Mykelti has stated that she’s open to rebuilding her relationship with her father if he puts in the effort to fix his relationships with all of his children.
“My dad has reached out multiple times,” Mykelti said during the Pop Psych interview. “He reached out before he left [to film Special Forces]. Every time we’ve communicated, he’s reached out and he’s the one extending the foot but it’s hard because, with me, I’m a package deal. You’ve got to treat my whole family nice; you’ve got to treat my kids nice. You’ve got to talk to all of us. You can’t just have me. You have to have all of us.”
Even though their relationship remains in a rough spot, it seems Kody did receive a Christmas gift from his daughter. In a video posted to her Patreon and shared by Tuff Topic on YouTube, Mykelti talked about the gifts she was making for the people she considers to be her parents.
“I’m only making Christmas presents and I’m only making a scrapbook for my parents, I don’t consider Meri to be my parent, I consider her to be my dad’s ex-wife, so she’s not part of my life by choice of my own through action that she’s done, she will not be receiving a gift this year,” she said.
‘Sister Wives’ airs Sundays on TLC.
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Everyone was carrying on about the apology session between Kody and Meri. I thought Meri was awful during that talk. She took no accountability for her part in the downfall of that marriage. She flat out cheated on Kody and blamed him that she did it! I’m no fan of Kody’s but Meri is obviously a narcissist.
Honestly, I have never liked Meri. She comes off INSANELY desperate, which legitimately makes me cringe. Second hand embarrassment for her honestly. However, I don’t like Mykelti either. Her husband is also… strange as all hell. Anyway- With that said, not just ONE of the kids is saying that Meri was abusive… so my bet is, yes, she was/is abusive. I could see it anyway. She was unhappy and had no power in the marriage especially after more wives were added. She was the one on a backburner. Regardless, the possibility of that happening was always there and was a choice she made when she entered a marriage she knew she’d be plural. Honestly, I’d probably shame her too
I’m thinking Mykelti and Paedon don’t like Meri because she actually disciplined them and was more strict than the other moms.
mykelti (oof, that name 🥴) seems like a HUGE pain in the a*s. 🤕🍑
grody chody kody 💯 sucks.
**this is based solely on what i read here, as i don’t watch the show and don’t keep track of any of these people.
oh, and meri seems to be a total wet blanket victim as well. 🤷🏼♀️
Does she have any idea how much she is like her father? “You can’t just have me. You have to take all of us”. Hmm sounds familiar. “I’m only making presents for my parents, and I don’t consider Meri my parent. She’s my father’s ex-wife”. First off, very childish and secondly doesn’t that make Janelle your father’s ex-wife too? The little bit that I’ve seen of her mother, and granted it’s only what I see on tv which is a small blip of their world, I don’t see her mother allowing abusive behavior happen to her children so where was she when this was happening?
Mykelti was born the year after Leon (the only baby Meri could have) that’s all we need to know.
Christine’s hates meri, Christine is a big influence over the brown children except for robins children.
The only instance they have said was when mykelti and Leon went to the shops, Christine said from that instance she will never be close to meri.
When Christine split from Kody all she spoke was poison to anyone that would listen including the children.
I’ve always seen Christine as manipulative and I can imagine the poison she’s been putting in the children’s ears from childhood.
Christine’s real problem is she always wanted to be the 3rd wife hoping it was the last wife, so she had the youngest children therefore more time with Kody. That’s probably why she offered to be the stay at home parent while the others worked.
She always seen herself better than the others cause her dad is one of the leaders.
So she hates robin cause she was taking the role as the last wife and she hates meri cause meri introduced robin.
I’m talking about Christine cause like mother like daughter, both are attention seekers and want all the attention on them. Mykelti is definitely her mother’s daughter.
Aside from being the child care for an insane number of children (definitely ‘working’), she worked a night job outside of the home.
No one in that family had an ounce of empathy for Meri. Meri wasn’t/isn’t perfect by any means, but imagine if your husband took a second wife…and that wife was previously married to your brother (Jenelle). And that’s just one thing. No one talks about the pain Meri also went through being married to Kodi, they just make it seem like she was just mean to be mean. She was surrounded by people that didn’t love or respect and I’m sure that made her hard to be around or live with.
And now, Mykelti’s annoying a** takes any opportunity to keep dumping on Meri even though Meri has never said a mean public word about her or any of the kids.
Christine wants to act like she was so hard done by, when it’s always been obvious the wife that was treated the worst was meri.
Mykelti always wants to act like she was hard done by, when it always be obvious the child that was treated the worst was Leon.
Meri put same amount of money in the family account but she had to pay for Leon’s schooling, home etc
Cause like the others always liked to remind her she’s only had one child (bet she didn’t get any support when she had the miscarriages) no wonder meri always looked miserable.
Leon was always be pushed aside cause Kody didn’t spend much time at their house, they could only really see Kody if they spent more time at other wives houses.
And it’s obvious that Kody don’t really support Leon in their life choices.
If anyone should be screaming from the roof tops it should be meri and Leon.
The package deal comment sounds verrrrryyyyy much like another member of Mykelti’s family. “You can’t have me if you don’t love Big Rob, treat her like gold and don’t ever do anything that she could experience as negative” (not an exact quote obvi). “The door will always be open to my children, they just have to walk through. And my other hand will be holding on to Crybrows, and I ain’t letting go” (more paraphrasing)
Basically, he’s a package deal with LieBrows and they’d better toe the line if they want him. Mykelti didn’t like that ultimatum much I’m gonna guess, but no qualms at all about issuing the same to him. Not a one of them has yet learned that you can’t force another human being to want the same things you do. Just bc he wants them to have a relationship with Sobbyn doesn’t mean they have to or will. She wants him to reconnect with her and 11 others or no dice. So then it becomes like an Oprah giveaway: You get estrangement and YOU get estrangement and YOU GET ESTRANGEMENT! That’s what the end result will be, and is what Fleshband Kodylocks deserves anyway.
Having a parent at your wedding and posting happy day to them just means you don’t want to make waves.
I despise my father- he was a nasty abusive person and I let him walk me down the isle- it was repugnant to me and I cut him out of all my pictures, as well as my baby album- but in order not to upset my Mom who I loved – I played along- I also wished him happy Father’s Day even though my siblings an I thought he was a terrible father. You just don’t want to stir up trouble. I sometimes now wish I would have told him what I thought of him…but he is mercifully gone.
I stopped watching a long time ago, I just kinda keep up with big things. I honestly don’t know any of the kids and how they behave but it seems like she was just a strict parent. A lot of parents are more strict than others. Meri seems very monotone and not loving in a way and that is just how people are. It doesn’t make them not care, they just love in a different way.
So now it is for revenge Mykelti? How mature of you! Grow up. And please, ask your husband to get a haircut and clean up. Brush your kids hair. And should you and Tony decide to give polygamy a try, good luck. You would be the #1 wife, just like Meri was. Then you could see it from the other side.
Mykelti has always gotten on my nerves. It seems like she was forever wanting to be “the star”, look at me etc. Okay Mykelti we all get you don’t like Meri. I understand Meri and Christine were raised in polygamy families and that was all they knew. So that was what they chose as adults. I for one cannot fathom sharing a husband and 13 kids all in one house. I cannot fathom choosing Kody for a husband! But the women and Kody made the choice to live polygamy and even worse do it in front of the world dragging the kids along. Get over Meri. Mykelti I am sure there are plenty in the Brown family who don’t like you either. That is life. Did Meri beat you? She came from a strict family. That is what she knows, not defending that. But are you perfect? Your dad sure isn’t. You can’t dictate how you want life to be. I find it a shame that the adults put all you kids through “Sister Wives” to begin with.
If I had to be around Mykelti 24/7, I’m not so sure I could keep my cool either. She’s a lot, Im sure as a kid she was even more obnoxious then she is as an adult. Not sticking up for Meri, Im just sayin, yikes don’t we all dislike this little bitch, why would Meri feel any different.
Four kids saying she was emotionally abusive (the fourth didn’t want her in the birthroom and heavily hinted). That is not just smoke.
These are the only Brown kids that do speak about their childhood and family outside the show and they all say she was abusive.
How can people still doubt them?
That’s my thoughts too. Idk that Meri has much of a relationship with any of the kids. It’s literally never a part of her storyline on the show, her talking to or seeing any of the kids. It makes me wonder how many have anything to do with her.
I’d not necessarily read anything into the “birthroom” bit. You can like someone and still rather they not be there while you give birth.
I’m not trying to discount Mykeltie (sorry I can’t bother to learn to spell misspelled names) but didn’t she move in with Merie or am I thinking of another daughter?
Which child did Meri breastfeed?
I truly can’t stand Mykelti. Not for this in particular but starting with when she got with Tony I started noticing that she was just very bratty and spoiled and now acts like a know it all. I don’t know if Meri was abusive or not. I think if they are going to call her out and have a “revenge arc” maybe get specific. I think if multiple kids are saying similar things there may be truth to it. But again why talk about it at all if you are going to be vague?
Mykelti says that she is a “package deal” and won’t have a relationship with Kody unless he makes up with her siblings. I call bullshit on that one. Mykelti very much continued to have a relationship with both Kody and Robyn while Kody verbally and emotionally eviscerated her mother and siblings on national TV for YEARS. It was only when Robyn pulled whatever shit she did at Garrison’s funeral (which she is also very vague about) that she drew the line. It had nothing to do with Kody’s lack of relationship and disrespect of her siblings.
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