Monique Samuels has filed for divorce from Chris Samuels.
The Montgomery County Family Court confirmed to PEOPLE on Tuesday that the 39-year-old Real Housewives of Potomac alum has filed for divorce from the 45-year-old former NFL star. Despite the fact that Monique has petitioned to have the records sealed, the docket shows that she filed a lawsuit for absolute divorce on April 14. She then filed an amended complaint for absolute divorce on June 15.
The divorce of the former couple has yet to be formalized. Monique and Chris, on the other hand, have a hearing scheduled for Wednesday.
Monique and Chris’s marital issues were apparent during the first season of Love & Marriage: D.C., airing earlier in 2022.
“It’s no secret that Chris and I have been struggling in some areas of our marriage and anybody who watched Love & Marriage: D.C. last year, y’all saw the arguments, y’all saw everything that was going on,” The Real Housewives of Potomac alum said in a lengthy YouTube video as Chris was beside her, per Us Weekly.
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“It was a lot of confusion, it was crazy building up to that 10-year marker of our marriage and when you’ve been married that long and when you have things that you’re like, ‘Listen, this is being unmet or I’ve been unheard’ you start to get frustrated and it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, is this what life is going to be? I can’t take it anymore,'” she continued. “So what y’all saw on Love & Marriage: DC last season, it was my cry for help.”
And while she also confirmed that the pair were doing therapy solo to work “on their personal issues,” Monique insisted that they “aren’t getting a divorce” and are “absolutely not” going their separate ways.
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PEOPLE revealed that Monique and Chris had divorced after ten years of marriage in October 2022. The ex-couple has three children: sons Christopher and Chase, as well as daughter Milani.
They haven’t been seen on each other’s Instagram grids since December 2022. Neither party commemorated their 11th wedding anniversary, as well as Mother’s and Father’s Days, on March 3. Chris has also unfollowed Monique and her business, Not for Lazy Moms, on Instagram.
