‘Welcome to Plathville’: Olivia Plath Gets Emotional as She Remembers Her Late Brother

Olivia Plath fought back tears as she reflected on the death of her brother, Micah Meggs. In the July 23 episode of TLC ’s Welcome to Plathville, Olivia visited a tarot card reader to get more insight about her life. The woman shared some surprising information about Olivia’s connection with her late brother .

Olivia Plath visits a tarot card reader

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Since splitting from her husband, Ethan Plath , and moving to Los Angeles, Olivia has been exploring new experiences. That includes visiting a tarot card reader, something that would have been off-limits just a few years ago.

“I feel I’m very open to what would have been deemed occult practices when I was a kid,” she shared.

Olivia went into the experience with an open mind. But once the reading began, she found herself shaken. As the reader examined the cards, she revealed that she saw “an angel around you, protecting you and guiding you.”

The woman then asked if Olivia had a brother. She replied that she has four brothers, including one who died earlier that year.

“That’s the one here,” the reader said. “I’m sorry. God rest his soul.”

The ‘Welcome to Plathville’ star opens up about the death of her brother, Micah Meggs

During the reading, both Olivia and her sister Lydia got visibly emotional when their brother was mentioned. In an interview, Olivia opened up about losing her sibling.

“Earlier this year, at the same time that Ethan and I were getting divorced , my youngest brother was killed unexpectedly,” she said.

Micah, 15, died in May 2023 after he was struck by a car while cycling near his home in Tennessee. He was the second-youngest of Olivia’s nine siblings. In an Instagram tribute posted shortly after his death, she shared her “sweet memories” of their childhood together and her regret that they had not spent more time together in recent years.

Though Olivia has a complicated relationship with her family, she did return home for Micah’s funeral, an experience she described as “weird.”

“[M]y parents and the older siblings who have kind of kept to that very religious lifestyle, the way they got through that funeral and that week was, ‘We know he’s in heaven and that’s what we’re putting our faith and trust on,’” she said.

But Olivia, who has left the faith of her parents behind, struggled to process the loss.

During the funeral, she wondered, “So, if you don’t believe that, what do you have?”

“I found myself asking all the time, ‘Is he just gone completely? Does he exist in a different realm?’ I don’t know and it’s scary not to know. And I understand why people use religion as a crutch. I just don’t want to lean on it.”

Welcome to Plathville Season 6 airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on TLC. Episodes also stream on Max.

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