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It’s official. Monique Samuels has filed for divorce.
Months after confirming that she and her husband Chris Samuels, 45, had cut up after a decade of marriage, the Actual Housewives of Potomac alum, who shares three kids, together with Christopher, Chase, and Milani, with Chris, filed paperwork to finish her marriage in April.
On June 20, the Montgomery County Household Court docket confirmed Monique’s submitting to PEOPLE.
In response to the report, Monique, who appeared on seasons two by 5 of RHOP and as soon as credited the present for saving her marriage, first filed a grievance for absolute divorce on April 14 and later filed an amended grievance on June 15. And whereas the previous couple’s divorce has not but been finalized, they’re anticipated to seem at a listening to on Wednesday.
As RHOP followers could recall, information of Monique and Chris’ breakup was first reported in October 2022, they usually have been final seen collectively on Instagram in December of that 12 months. Within the months since, Monique and Chris have didn’t acknowledge one another on numerous holidays, together with their eleventh marriage ceremony anniversary in March.
Chris has additionally unfollowed Monique on Instagram.
After quitting RHOP in December 2020, Monique and Chris went on to seem on Love & Marriage: D.C., which aired in early 2022.
“It’s no secret that Chris and I’ve been struggling in some areas of our marriage and anyone who watched Love & Marriage: D.C. final 12 months, y’all noticed the arguments, y’all noticed the whole lot that was happening,” Monique stated in an October 2022 video with Chris on YouTube after the season, per Us Weekly.
“It was a number of confusion, it was loopy constructing as much as that 10-year marker of our marriage and while you’ve been married that lengthy and when you have got issues that you just’re like, ‘Pay attention, that is being unmet or I’ve been unheard’ you begin to get annoyed and it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, is that this what life goes to be? I can’t take it anymore,’” she continued. “So what y’all noticed on Love & Marriage: D.C. final season, it was my cry for assist.”
At the moment, though Monique and Chris started attending solo remedy periods to work “on their private points,” she stated they weren’t “getting a divorce.”
The Actual Housewives of Potomac season eight is at the moment in manufacturing and anticipated to start airing on Bravo someday later this 12 months.
