The Real Housewives of Potomac's Karen Huger Gets New Release Date After Reporting to Prison for DUI Arrest

Karen Huger is getting an early release from prison.

More than six months after her sentencing, The Real Housewives of Potomac star, 62, is set to be released from prison on Sept. 2, PEOPLE has learned.

The Jasmine Brand was first to report the news.

PEOPLE has reached out to Huger’s rep and Montgomery County's Department of Correction and Rehabilitation about her early release.

On Feb. 26, the reality star was sentenced to two years in prison, with one year suspended, for her drunk driving case.

When taken into custody earlier this year, Huger told her husband of 28 years, Ray, "You will be alright" and that "God's got you," a source on the scene told PEOPLE at the time.

Huger was arrested in March 2024 after a single-vehicle crash into a street sign, three miles from her house.

Bodycam footage later released from the scene showed a visibly intoxicated Huger stumbling and slurring her words while speaking with police.

In a filmed conversation with her husband Ray, which aired during The Real Housewives of Potomac season 9 reunion in March, Huger reacted to the footage.

"Dots are being connected for me," she admitted. "I keep saying, ‘Surely they made a mistake, right? Because everything’s not connecting to me.’ And I watched and I’m telling you… I didn’t recognize that woman. I didn’t know her. ... But it helped me to hear that because I blacked out before the impact."

In March 2024, she was officially charged with a DUI and DWI, negligently driving a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner endangering property, life, and person, as well as recklessly driving a vehicle in wanton and willful disregard for the safety of persons and property.

Other charges included failure to control vehicle speed on the highway to avoid a collision, driving a vehicle in excess of reasonable and prudent speed on the highway, driving a vehicle on the highway with suspended registration and failure to notify administration of change of address within 30 days.

Huger was found guilty on all charges except reckless driving, her rep told PEOPLE in December.

RHOP alum Candiace Dillard Bassett, who left the Bravo series after season 8, told PEOPLE in March that she spoke with her former costar a "few times prior to her going away."

"I'm obviously devastated for her and her family," she shared.

"We all know that drinking and driving is not right," she noted. "We all have the opportunity to make choices, and it's on all of us to make the right choices, whether that is calling an Uber, sleeping on a couch, walking, whatever it is.”

She added: "So Karen will obviously have time to think about what she has done, but I'm excited for her to serve her time and come out stronger, which I know that she will."

Current housewives Gizelle Bryant and Ashley Darby also opened up about their communication with Huger while she served her prison sentence.

Bryant, 54, revealed to PEOPLE in April that she hasn't spoken to Huger "directly," but she's communicated with her through people she knows are "talking to her on a regular basis."

"I've given messages. She's given messages back through other people. I hear that they love her in that prison, which doesn't shock me at all," she shared at the time. "Karen's going to take over any situation she is in and do it with style and grace."

Darby, 37, revealed that she's been receiving updates through Bryant's point of contact and shared she was lending her support despite taking jabs at her in the past.

"Honestly, I don't think she's in the place to talk about being with any of us socially," she said of Karen and the other RHOP housewives. "I mean, Karen is very focused on getting better and healing herself, and that's what's been communicated through our mutual friend."

"She's really steadfast in that journey, and we've just given her support," Darby explained. "And yes, I may throw jabs and it may be shady occasionally, but honestly, I really want Karen to be better and to get better for herself and her children."

"She's just going to be the baddest bitch ever when she comes out of there. So I'm looking forward to that day," she added.