I have to admit that I have never been that sympathetic toward Denise Richards. I followed her 2006 divorce from Charlie Sheen and thought that her allegations against him were overblown. It all sounded too over-the-top to be true and she went on to try and deny him overnight visits with her daughters and talk smack about him repeatedly. The two have since reached some kind of tentative truce and were even seen out to dinner together earlier this year.
I re-read Richards’ divorce declaration, available on The Smoking Gun, and in light of recent events it now seems completely plausible to me. She claimed that Sheen was addicted to prescription painkillers, online porn, hiring prostitutes and gambling and that he was either absent or verbally abusive most of the time – particularly at key points in their marriage like during her pregnancies and the births of their two children.
Most of the document focuses on Sheen’s erratic and verbally abusive behavior, but toward the end of their marriage Sheen was physically abusive. On page 12 and page 14 Richards details two cases in which Sheen shoved her and threatened to kill her, just as he is alleged to have done with his current wife, Brooke Mueller. He didn’t go as far as holding a knife to her throat. In one particularly disturbing incident, Sheen pushed Richards and caused her to fall while she was holding one of their then-infant daughters. He went on to threaten to kill her while both of his daughters were there in the room.
Now that the news is out that Sheen abused and threatened to kill his current wife, Denise is gloating a little and I don’t blame her. She wrote on Twitter that she’ll “spill her guts… one day” about what she suffered while married to Charlie. I get the impression from the divorce decree that she pretty much already told us everything, but maybe there’s more. Denise also makes a roundabout swipe at Brooke by saying she doesn’t have a nanny. Brooke’s twin one year-old boys with Charlie were photographed out with their nanny after the abuse scandal and this may be what she’s referring to. The thing is, Denise made several references to her daughters’ nanny in the divorce document. She also had a nanny to help out when her girls, Sam, 5, and Lola, 4, were babies.
for all the negative nellies out there, I DID not have a f..ing photo op with my kids at a park when there is drama u get followed more
about 17 hours ago from TweetDeck
I genuinely love to be with my girls and don’t have a nanny raising them. They are my #1 priority and always will be.
about 17 hours ago from TweetDeck
sorry had to vent s*** pisses me off sometimes..one day..I will spill my guts about EVERYTHING
about 17 hours ago from TweetDeck
[From Denise Richards’ Twitter via EOnline]
Several of you have wondered in the comments if Charlie’s dad Martin Sheen was possibly abusive and if that’s where Charlie learned it from. While going over some old stories, I found an article we covered about how Denise was trying to block Martin’s access to his granddaughters. It could be nothing. There’s no reason to jump to conclusions.
It seems like Charlie resorts to violence and death threats when his wives inevitably try to leave him. Denise made it sound like he was an unreliable, erratic creep overall and became physically abusive towards the end of their marriage. (Not that it matters when he was abusive, I just see a pattern here.) Do you think that Sheen will continue to be one of the highest paid stars on TV or will he suffer some well deserved fallout from this?
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