Luann de Lesseps announced to People magazine Thursday that she’s “drinking responsibly again” now that she’s completed her probation.

But while the story reads like the celebration of a milestone on her path to recovery, we’re told that de Lesseps felt compelled to address her boozing because reporters were sniffing around the story that she’s off the wagon.

The “Real Housewives of New York City” star — who’s done two stints in rehab since she was arrested after a drunken rampage in Florida in December 2017 — had insisted as recently as November that she’s sober.

But sources tell us that she’s been drunk in public at two different events and that the media was starting to take notice. We’re told that she went to People to get ahead of the story, which announces that “she has recently made the decision to allow herself a drink on occasion.”

The Bravo star entered alcohol treatment after the 2017 arrest, which was for battery, trespassing and disorderly intoxication, and then returned to rehab in summer 2018. The terms of her probation required that she stop drinking and submit to regular tests for alcohol.

In April, de Lesseps failed an alcohol test, with her probation officer informing the court she “admitted to drinking 2 glasses of mimosas after a [cabaret] performance she had in Chicago.”