Former Real Housewives of Potomac /Love & Marriage D.C. star Monique Samuels recently shared the terms of her divorce from ex-NFL player Chris Samuels. She candidly revealed that her decision to sign the prenup was probably a silly one but she has no regrets.
Appearing on the Dear Future Wifey podcast, Monique, 41, shared that the couple’s prenuptial agreement played a central role in their financial arrangements post-divorce.
According to the reality star, she and Chris started out as friends after meeting when she was just 19. Monique shared that Chris, who was 6 years her senior, was adamant that he didn’t want to get married, and she was fine with it, especially amid her parents’ divorce.
After being friends with benefits for a year, she and Samuels finally revealed their feelings for each others. “He told me he loved me,” said Monique during the episode. “He said, ‘I can’t stop thinking about you and I want us to be official.’”
After 6 years of dating, the two went on to tie the knot, but eventually, Monique said she didn’t feel emotionally supported by her spouse, so she stifled her feelings, causing blow-ups during arguments.
“If I’m expressing to you, ‘Hey, this is what I’m going through, this is what I need from you, I want us to talk, I want us to be open and safe with each other,’” said Mo’Nique. “But in the meantime, I’m still having to put that armor on; I’m becoming more masculine because certain things that I feel emotionally need to happen aren’t happening. So now I’m hard, now I’m stone.”
The divorce agreement, she explained, was designed to reflect her earnings as Chris’s business manager rather than providing long-term financial security.
“We had a prenup, and the intention behind it was, ‘I don’t ever want you thinking I want what you have,’” Monique said during the December 4 episode. “The agreement covered what my salary would have been if I’d continued working, but it didn’t account for our children.”
Monique and Chris, 47, share three kids—Christopher, Milani, and Chase—but child support was also left out of the agreement.
“I could have gone after full custody or battled for child support,” Monique noted, “but that’s not why I was here. That’s not the person I am.”