Meri Brown knows that life in the spotlight isn’t for everyone.
On a recent episode of The Sarah Fraser Show, the Sister Wives star, 53, shared that she told her now-ex Amos to “beware” of life in the public eye.
“He did not sign up for this — except for he kind of did, because I said, ‘You know what’s gonna happen once we put you out on social media, if you wanna be talked about on my Instagram,’” she said.
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Meri’s best friend Jenn Sullivan weighed in on her former beau, calling him, “sweetly naive.”
“He didn’t realize that, like, people would care,” she explained. “So that was hard. And I kept saying you can literally do anything and they’re going to tear you apart. And he’s like, ‘Ah, it’ll be fine.’”
“And so I felt really bad, but we did try to make sure that he was aware and prepared for it,” she added.
The reality star shared that she and Jenn tried to warn Amos about the potential pitfalls of a public relationship, saying, “We tried to just [be] like, ‘Hey, listen, this is what’s going to happen. If you want to go public with the fact that we’re dating. They’re going to make things up. It just is what it is.’”
Jenn noted that while there were “things that came out” that Amos would have preferred to keep private, there were also “a lot of ridiculous made-up things.”
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“I had already dug out his past, and so we had talked about it like before,” she said of Amos. “But still having him be under the microscope with me is one thing. Having him be under the microscope for every single person who loves Meri and wants to protect her, or maybe just those who wanted to try to ruin her relationship. Either way, it was a whole different thing. It’s really hard.”
Meri said that life in the public eye was “a bit of a shocker” to Amos, adding, “I knew what to expect, she knew what to expect, but he had no idea.”
The TLC star went public with her relationship with Amos in January and revealed they had been dating since October 2024. Just one month later, Meri announced they had gone their separate ways.
At the time, she reflected on the “hard truths” and “difficult conversations” she had to have “last week” as they ended their relationship.
“Life is a series of experiences. How you handle them and what you learn from them is who you become from them. It takes courage to face difficult truths, yet it’s imperative in order to remain authentic to yourself and your commitment to personal growth,” she began the lengthy caption.
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“Just because I care a lot about someone, and him me, does not equate to full compatibility for a long-term relationship. When we have different dreams and aspirations, different communication styles and values, different visions for our futures, and these things aren’t aligning, it’s then that we need to make hard decisions,” Meri continued. “It’s a strange and sad thing to care about someone so deeply, to look beyond their past, because heaven knows we all have one, to see the kindness in their eyes and their giving heart, and still know that a life long relationship isn’t in the cards for you.”
