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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 split after a decade of marriage, the Real Housewives of Potomac alum, who shares three children, including Christopher, Chase, and Milani, with Chris, filed documents to end her marriage in April.
On June 20, the Montgomery County Family Court confirmed Monique’s filing to PEOPLE.
According to the report, Monique, who appeared on seasons two through five of RHOP and once credited the show for saving her marriage, first filed a complaint for absolute divorce on April 14 and later filed an amended complaint on June 15. And while the former couple’s divorce has not yet been finalized, they are expected to appear at a hearing on Wednesday.
As RHOP fans may recall, news of Monique and Chris’ breakup was first reported in October 2022, and they were last seen together on Instagram in December of that year. In the months since, Monique and Chris have failed to acknowledge each other on a number of holidays, including their 11th wedding anniversary in March.
Chris has also unfollowed Monique on Instagram.
After quitting RHOP in December 2020, Monique and Chris went on to appear on Love & Marriage: D.C., which aired in early 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,” Monique said in an October 2022 video with Chris on YouTube after the season, per Us Weekly.
“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: D.C. last season, it was my cry for help.”
At that time, although Monique and Chris began attending solo therapy sessions to work “on their personal issues,” she said they were not “getting a divorce.”
The Real Housewives of Potomac season eight is currently in production and expected to begin airing on Bravo sometime later this year.