Veronica Peters and Micah Plath. Courtesy of TLC
Micah Plath’s girlfriend, Veronica Peters, is new to the Plath household — and Welcome to Plathville — however she already has an opinion on Ethan Plath’s ex-wife, Olivia Plath.
“After we first met, we spent a very long time discussing a standard expertise,” Micah and Ethan’s dad, Barry Plath, mentioned of his bond with Veronica through the Tuesday, September 17, episode of the TLC sequence. “We each had expertise with a narcissist in our lives.”
Barry, 56, recalled “instantly” having the ability to “perceive” Veronica due to their mutual foe. Whereas Barry didn’t reveal the id of the individual he was speaking about, Veronica didn’t maintain again.
“So, Olivia’s positively the narcissist Barry and I had been speaking about,” Veronica advised the cameras. “Sorry, woman. I name it like I see it.”
Veronica defined that she met Olivia “briefly a pair months in the past” whereas attending the identical wedding ceremony in Minnesota.
“I [had] solely heard issues about her at the moment,” she recalled of the expertise, claiming, “I’m open minded. I really like folks, love all people till you give me a purpose to not.”
Veronica made it clear that Olivia didn’t make first impression. “She didn’t even have like two seconds to say hello,” Veronica alleged of her and Olivia’s interplay. “She identical to, shoulder ran into me like [in] Imply Women. I mentioned, ‘Oh, OK. I assume every thing I heard could possibly be true.’”
Veronica made her Welcome to Plathville debut throughout an August episode of the present, after Micah, 23, teased their romance through the season premiere.
“I by no means was the individual that needed to be within the highlight,” Veronica mentioned throughout her first confessional. “I appreciated being behind the room. I appreciated being the one listening to every thing, the one not concerned in every thing.”
Welcome to Plathville launched viewers to Barry and Kim Plath and their 9 kids when the fact present premiered on TLC in November 2019. Based on the sequence description, the couple’s children — Ethan, Hosanna, Micah, Moriah, Lydia, Isaac, Amber, Cassia and Mercy — “have by no means had a soda, don’t know who Spider-Man or Tom […]
Throughout Tuesday’s episode, Veronica traveled with Micah and his household to shoot a music video for Moriah Plath. Whereas she bonded with the Plaths, Micah’s mother, Kim Plath, mirrored on how her relationship with Ethan’s ex-wife, Olivia, additionally began out one be aware.
“I believe with Olivia, we had a relationship up till they obtained married after which we didn’t,” Kim, 52, advised the cameras. “I’m not going to undertaking what occurred with Olivia on to any of the opposite kids, future spouses, any of that.”
She confessed: “I imply, I’m going to do what I’ve all the time accomplished, which is be good, be pleasant, be useful they usually both like me or they don’t.”
Olivia and Ethan dated for practically a yr earlier than getting engaged in 2017. Based on Olivia, that’s when her relationship together with his household, and Kim specifically, shifted.
“After we had been courting, I knew that I used to be being managed in what we had been allowed to do, what we’re allowed to say,” Olivia completely advised Us Weekly in August 2021. “I keep in mind the evening that it clicked for me was the evening we obtained engaged. We come within the door, [Kim] waited up for us and she or he, like, grabbed my hand and seemed on the ring. And the very first thing she mentioned was, ‘Oh, I need to commerce rings with you.’ And I used to be like, ‘OK, that’s actually bizarre.’”
Welcome to Plathville stars Ethan Plath and Olivia Plath confronted their fair proportion of challenges earlier than calling it quits. The truth stars wed in October 2018 after being engaged for practically a yr. Regardless of the event, the newlyweds confronted rigidity with Ethan’s ultra-conservative mother and father, Kim and Barry Plath, initially of their relationship. “When […]
Throughout wedding ceremony planning, rigidity grew between Olivia and Kim and it by no means simmered. “It was simply, like, a sample that she tried to make loads of selections for me,” Olivia claimed to Us in August 2021. “And I used to be contemporary out of my mother and father’ home and determining who I used to be, and I didn’t need selections made for me. The marriage was the place loads of that culminated, nevertheless it was simply throughout the board. … That created a complete bunch of rigidity.”
Olivia and Ethan, 26, introduced their divorce in October 2023 after 5 years of marriage. Whereas Ethan fought the separation, Olivia moved on together with her life and is now courting a person named Brendan, who made his Plathville debut on Tuesday’s episode.
After saying “I really like you” backwards and forwards on the episode, Brendan revealed simply how severe he’s with Olivia. “That is the individual I need to be with for the remainder of my life,” he advised the cameras, saying he waited to make use of the L-word till they had been formally courting. “I used to be like, ‘We’ll simply so you realize, I already love you and I need to be with you for the remainder of my life.’”
Olivia mentioned she “mentioned it again” as a result of she had “already been feeling that means.” Though she confessed, they’re “not prepared for marriage” simply but, she is fortunately dedicated to Brendan.
“We’re collectively proper now and we’re taking a look at our future and we’re planting flowers and also you’re the individual I need to do it with,” Olivia advised Brendan.
Welcome to Plathville airs on TLC Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET.
