Are Monique and Derek Still Together on 'Life After Lockup'? They Say ... (EXCLUSIVE)

'Life After Lockup': Are Monique and Derek still together? In an interview with Distractify, the couple shared the place their relationship stands today!

Where there’s smoke, there’s fireplace, and tensions are undoubtedly boiling over between Monique and Derek — one of the vital chaotic couples on WE television’s Life After Lockup.

Nothing says "welcome home after nine years behind bars" like your new spouse straight away accusing you of infidelity, however in Monique’s protection, her suspicions have been warranted.

Previously, Derek admitted to cheating with at least 10 other women since his unlock from jail.

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But because of a little detective work on her end, Monique wasn’t totally in the dead of night about his indiscretions.

The April 7 episode of Life After Lockup saw Derek hop on a plane to Chicago to propose to Monique. When he arrived, Monique was once waiting at the door with receipts. Now, viewers are nervous to grasp if the couple is still together and now we have answers.

In an unique interview with Distractify, they were given candid about where their relationship stands these days.

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Are Monique and Derek from 'Life After Lockup' still together?

Monique and Derek instructed Distractify that they are, in reality, still together and “doing much better than prior to. “We just right,” Derek assured audience. “And issues are getting in the appropriate direction.”

Despite speculations that his love for Monique is also for the cameras, Derek mentioned that he by no means really wanted to be on TV within the first place. In reality, it was the Love After Lockup manufacturers who reached out to him and Monique.

According to Monique, casting directors first found out their love story on Facebook.

"I was on this Facebook group ... it was a prison wife/girlfriend support group," she shared. “Some of the producers and directors have been within the team, I assume they were casting to look who wanted to be on the new season or whatever. So I used to have interaction in the crew a lot, I talked to numerous the other women speak about, you understand, me and Derek's courting.”

Thus, two new fact stars had been born.

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Additionally, the couple shared that viewers have best gotten a glimpse in their relationship on TV, as they had been together long earlier than they got on the show.

“This was one thing that happened organically,” Derek said of his relationship with Monique. “This is one thing that people don't know, used to be that we were together [for] two and a part years sooner than we made it to TV. “

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“The love I've for Monique is actual. And I really like her for the entirety she was once ready to do for me whilst I was incarcerated [and] the person she is and how she treats me,” he added. “Everybody got their very own story. This is our story. And we are gonna continue to love each and every different and proceed to make it paintings.”

But at this point in Season 4, it's onerous to peer how they'll reconcile as it kind of feels that Derek's cheating seems to have simplest begun.

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'Life After Lockup' star Derek has a historical past of cheating on Monique.

In an exclusive clip prior to now bought via Distractify, Derek spent his first night at Monique's home, where he now lives. And whilst he popped the cork on the wine for them to have a good time, Monique rummaged around in his baggage for evidence that he was (or, confidently, was not) dishonest on her. Unbeknownst to Derek, Monique still hadn't gotten over him talking to other girls in the back of her again.

The Life After Lockup clip might be the beginning of Monique's suspicions proving true about her boyfriend. However, as of now, Monique has but to pull the plug on her dating with Derek. And we predict it's gonna take much more than that to break up this satisfied house.

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