Monique Samuels is once again capturing attention on Bravo, and she suspects her former spouse, ex-NFL player Chris Samuels, is closely monitoring her activities.

The “Real Housewives of Potomac” alum makes her comeback this season in a “friend of” capacity for Season 10. She reveals exclusively to Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” that despite Chris not reaching out to her directly, he is keenly aware of her return to the reality TV world.

“Oh, he’s definitely keeping an eye on things and tracking my moves. The issue with Chris and me is that we’re not on good terms. Co-parenting is a complete disaster,” Monique asserts. She and Chris share three children: Milani, Christopher, and Chase.

“He never approaches me directly about anything he observes. Instead, he uses intermediaries to communicate on his behalf. It’s quite underhanded and deceptive. That’s very typical of him,” she comments.

At 42, Monique expresses her frustration with the disparity between their public personas and personal lives. She notes that fans often struggle to reconcile the Chris they view on television with the one she spent nearly ten years married to.

“Unfortunately, because I had maintained such a good front and image back then, it’s unbelievable for most people,” she explains. “So even with the last episode [of ‘RHOP’], where they’re calling him, he said, ‘I don’t know [about any of the series drama].’”

Monique adds, “Most people said, ‘Oh, he’s not trying to be in women’s business. He doesn’t even know about it.’”

But she claims Chris, 48, is far more aware of what’s happening on the show than he lets on — and that current cast personalities have allegedly helped keep him in the loop.

“He knows about it — because Cookie’s the mouthpiece. So she’s doing his bidding,” she alleges. “Why is he talking to her? Because he knows she’s gonna run her mouth and do his bidding. And then he can play innocent and say, ‘I don’t know what y’all are talking about.’ I’ve seen this a thousand times.”

She also addresses the bombshell allegations surrounding Stacey Rusch and whether the former QVC host was communicating with Chris after the Samuels’ divorce. According to Monique, the connection was very real — and predated her return to the series.

“There was definitely communication with Stacey because she showed it to me,” Monique claims. “She showed me a message from way before I even signed my contract, where he was texting her, asking, ‘Hey, I heard my name’s being talked about on the show?’ They were already communicating, so why would they not communicate later on?”

Monique claims inconsistencies in Stacey’s story only fueled her concerns.

“The communication was real. I wasn’t at the previous event for Gizelle’s … [‘Reasonably Shady’ podcast] party, so when I’m watching it in real time, she says she didn’t have his number and that’s why Charrisse [Jackson] called him,” she continues.

“So now here I am in my present self watching everything unfold and then the next scene is us sitting down having dinner together and then she pulls her phone out [saying], ‘We know each other socially and here’s what he’s been sending to me,’ in all the text messages scrolling. … It’s just weird. It’s, like, why are we lying?”

She emphasizes that Jackson’s decision to openly call Chris while filming only raised more red flags for her.

“And then she said, ‘I’m filming,’ and then [Chris] proceeded to talk,” Monique says. “So ain’t nobody stupid.”

Now, years removed from her marriage, Monique says she is finally ready to tell her full truth in her forthcoming memoir-meets-self-help guide, “Love Letters from Versions of Myself: A Memoir of Self-Discovery, Transformation & Healing.” The book will go far deeper into the darkest moments of her relationship — and the personal awakening that followed.

“I go into very full detail in my book,” she shares. “I give you every stage of that but I also give you an example. The example is me. … Whether it was during my childhood, during my marriage or post-marriage, I give all of the steps that I went through when it comes to the transformation.”

Monique says that confronting those painful experiences meant facing devastating emotional truths.

“The hardest part is losing people that you thought were there for you but then you realize they were never there for you,” she reflects. “And sometimes you can be sleeping with your own damn enemy. It’s a real thing.”

Despite everything, Monique feels her troubled marriage ultimately became the catalyst for her spiritual growth.

“If it wasn’t for my marriage, I would have never had this awakening moment,” she says. “I do really feel that I deserve to be loved properly.”

And this time around on “RHOP,” Monique is making it clear she’s no longer interested in protecting anyone else’s image but her own.

“The Real Housewives of Potomac” airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo with new episodes available to stream the next day on Peacock.