‘Sister Wives’ star Kody Brown refuses to have a ‘sexual relationship’ with first wife Meri without ‘a spark’

On Sunday's episode of "Sister Wives," Kody Brown detailed how Meri Brown's catfishing scandal has rocked their marriage.

During a confessional, the 52-year-old detailed his strained union with Meri, 50. "Meri and I had problems like this long before [sister wife] Janelle even came into the family," he reflected, as quoted by People magazine. "But the catfishing [scandal] was what really woke us up to the state of our situation." According to the outlet, Meri revealed in 2015 that she’d been catfished after entering into an online relationship with someone she thought was a man. However, the person turned out to be a female admirer. Brown and Meri entered therapy to cope with the emotional fallout, but the patriarch later said that he no longer desired to be intimate with her.