Love & Hip Hop star Erica Mena is pulling the plug on her marriage to Safaree Samuels less than two years together.
According to TMZ, in less than two years of matrimony, a child together and one on the way, Erica Mena has filed for a divorce.
Erica, 33, who is currently pregnant with their second child, filed the paperwork on May 21 in Fayette County Superior Court in Georgia, where the couple got married and currently reside with their daughter, one-year-old Satire.
According to the divorce documents, Erica is requesting primary physical custody of their one-year-old daughter Safire but is willing to share joint legal custody.
She is requesting child support and would like to obtain the rights to the home they both currently share.
Their split comes three months after another round of fighting between the couple. In February, Safaree said in a deleted tweet that he was “walking away” from their marriage and called getting married his “biggest mistake.”
Erica Mena replied: “Since you always run to social media like a little girl I might as well join in. I absolutely agree with you on this. You are the most selfish, vain and inconsiderate person. And not just with me but your only daughter!”
The couple made up eventually, and Erica recently defended her marriage in an exchange with Wendy Williams.
In November, Safaree was the one to threaten divorce. He captioned a photo of himself standing next to a Rolls Royce, “BACHELOR!! Ending 2020 right!!”
He tagged the TV show Divorce Court in the post, and tweeted “biggest regret,” “pathetic,” and thanked Steve Jobs for inventing the “block” feature on iPhones.
One day later, he backtracked and apologized to Erica on Instagram:
“A man is nothing without his family. Im not a bachelor & I love my wife I would never disrespect the mother of my child or wife. Sorry for being childish & Salute to all the real men out there.”
Safaree claimed that getting married was the biggest mistake of his life, resented Erica for gaining too much weight during her first pregnancy and they fought dirty on social media at different times.
When the couple announced that they were having a second child, the good people of the internet were shocked, given all that they’d publicly displayed about their dysfunctional union.
Erica didn’t like that people called her marriage toxic. But apparently, she might have sympathized with those comments because less than a month later, she’s calling it quits.
The real tell tale sign that it was over though is the fact that Erica Mena said, “It’s not easy doing it alone”, referring to her pregnancy.
Erica and Safaree met on the set of the reality tv show, “Sacred Famous” in 2017. They had a bit of a whirlwind romance from there.
By Christmas of the following year, Safaree proposed to her and they got married on October 7, 2019.
Erica gave birth to their first child, daughter Safire, on February 2, 2020 and announced her pregnancy with the second child, on May 3, 2021.
