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Former Real Housewives of Potomac star Monique Samuels and her hubby of 11 years, Chris Samuels, are separating. Monique, 39, filed for divorcement from the erstwhile NFL player, 45, according to PEOPLE, who claimed they received confirmation from the Montgomery County Family Court. She reportedly filed to dissolve their matrimony connected April 14, and past filed a 2nd ailment for their separation to go ineligible connected June 15. Although the divorcement has not yet been finalized, the mates reportedly has a proceeding connected Wednesday, June 21.
The study comes astir 8 months aft PEOPLE primitively claimed Monique and Chris’ marriage was over. Neither Monique nor Chris has publically commented connected the study of their impending divorce. The soon-to-be exes stock 3 kids: sons Christopher and Chase, and girl Milani. They primitively tied the knot successful Oct. 2012.
Monique Samuels and Chris Samuels got joined successful 2012 and stock 3 children (Photo: Mediapunch/Nathan Posner/Shutterstock)
Although they had immoderate marital issues during the archetypal play of Love & Marriage: DC, which debuted successful May 2022, Monique antecedently said The Real Housewives of Potomac helped her matrimony during a July 2022 interrogation with Entertainment Tonight. “People ever accidental that world TV tears your matrimony down. What radical don’t recognize is that Real Housewives of Potomac really successful immoderate ways saved my marriage. Chris and I, earlier we started filming that show, we were successful a truly unsmooth place,” she explained.
“We had mislaid each of the dating successful our marriage. Once we started filming world TV, it really helped america due to the fact that it forced america to date. So we were capable to get out, conscionable reignite that intimacy and beryllium excited astir each other,” she added. “So I volition not lie, play 2 RHOP saved my marriage.”
Although her matrimony was astatine that constituent “saved,” Monique addressed the information that she had akin complaints astir her hubby and their concern during the Bravo amusement and Love & Marriage. “And astatine the extremity of the day, sometimes you inactive person to travel backmost to those moments. Because immoderate of the things that I expressed connected Love & Marriage: DC, radical who watched Potomac saw I had those aforesaid concerns backmost then. So it’s not similar this is thing new,” she noted.
Monique announced she was leaving Potomac in Dec. 2020, aft an aggravated Season 5 that included her being progressive successful a physical altercation with Candiace Dillard. A period later, she confirmed she would “never” return. Monique revealed she and her husband joined Love & Marriage in Feb. 2022.
Chris has not appeared connected Monique’s Instagram provender since Dec. 2022, and she did not privation him a blessed Father’s Day successful 2023. Furthermore, Chris did not privation Monique a blessed Mother’s Day and unfollowed her company, Not for Lazy Moms.
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