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?

Denise Richards made a major Twitter faux pas this morning when she tweeted her phone number, thinking she was sending a private direct message using the social networking service. This just goes to show that celebrities should be super careful when they use Twitter and try and consider whether they want to use it regularly.

The thing is, Denise didn’t even include an @username at the beginning of the tweet indicating the message is meant for a certain person. Those @username messages are still public, but many new users mistakenly think they’re sending a direct message that way. I know this because I’ve seen that “deleted” tweet with Denise Richards’ phone number – I’m not going to say where – but there are several websites online that index celebrity tweets.

Denise explained her mistake by tweeting that she was trying to multi-task and got distracted “thats what I get trying to make lunches, breakfast and tweet at the same time. sometimes multitask is too much… i was on tweetdeck and all the screens were up and just wasnt paying attention. lots of calls though..” Denise has 1.28 million followers on Twitter. She seems to have changed her phone number as a result. She tweeted “ok number is changed!! won’t make that mistake again.” Since I’m nice and don’t feel like talking to Denise Richards anyway, I didn’t check and call the number.

The service Tweleted.com, which used to recover deleted tweets, no longer works. The Tweleted.com site explains that “Twitter fixed the bug that meant that deleted messages still showed up in Twitter search.” If you’re a celebrity there are plenty of sites and users following you, though, so you should be extra careful.

Celebrities have been gradually leaving Twittter, with 16 year-old Miley Cyrus deleting her account earlier this month and explaining that she wanted to keep her private life private. You can still get access to Miley’s thoughts, though, by paying $39.95 a year to her site MileyWorld.com.

Denise Richards is shown on 9/24/09 at the Fashion show for Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. Credit: WENN.com

A couple of weeks ago, Star Magazine reported that Bradley Cooper and Denise Richards had gone out for a cozy, romantic dinner at Il Cielo “for almost two hours on July 6.” According to Star’s sources, “They never stopped talking. Denise was smiling at him, giving him her undivided attention.” They even had Bradley wiping Denise’s mouth. My thoughts on the report were that, yes, those “Bradley is gay” rumors were probably true. But unlike the constant “Is he dating Jennifer Aniston?” rumors, Bradley didn’t come out and issue some kind of pissy-yet-hilarious denial, so I thought that there might be something there. Alas! This time it’s Denise Richards doing the denying:

Controversial couple Jon and Kate Gosselin have come under fire in recent weeks following the exposure of Jon’s wandering ways, and if there is anyone to empathize with a sticky marriage situation, it would be fellow reality star Denise Richards.

“I’ve been through a divorce and it’s not easy. None of know [sic] what goes on behind closed doors, all I know is there will be light,” Richards told Tarts at last week’s Give & Get Fete benefiting Dress For Success Worldwide-West at the Frédéric Fekkai Salon in Beverly Hills. “So if I can get through a place of being great parents, there’s hope for anyone!”

On the note of love affairs, or lack thereof, the starlet was also quick to slam rumors she was dating Bradley Cooper.

“It’s such bullsh-t. I hate it and it’s such an example that some of these magazines literally concoct something from a piece of [expletive] and make up this whole story that we’re down at the restaurant,” Richards scoffed. “It is BS and I barely even met the guy. We were both guests on Jimmy Fallon’s show. That is it, it’s another one of those. Christ, if it’s Bradley Cooper it’s fine, but I’ve had so many awful stories about me but this just pisses me off that they can just make something up and print it.”

[From Fox News Pop Tarts]

Jesus, Denise. It’s not that horrible to be connected with Bradley Cooper in the press. If anything, it makes him look bad, like he’s a serial first-dater, only interested in romancing 40-something women for brief press hits. Or it makes him look gay, whatever.

I actually like Denise, and I’d like to see her with someone hardcore, with a heart of gold. Someone like Sandra Bullock’s husband Jesse James, only not him, you know? Someone tough, who can appreciate Denise’s gutter mouth, but will still treat her and her daughters well.

Here’s Denise with her daughters (and security guard) and her Dad on July 31st and August 2nd. Images thanks to WENN.com .

I realize there are a lot of people out there who don’t really care for Denise Richards, but I kind of like the crazy bitch. Yes, she’s immature, she handled her divorce from Charlie Sheen badly, and she may be a homewrecker, but in her defense, Charlie is just as immature and nasty, and it takes two to tango in any given homewrecking situation. I don’t think Denise is God’s gift or anything, but I do think she got a raw deal for a few years in the press. While it’s still up in the air as to whether Denise, her girls, her crazy, obscene girlfriends and her awesome dad will come back for another season of It’s Complicated (reports are mingled, but Denise gave an interview to E!, so it‘s probably happening), Denise is getting some other stuff in her life together. Namely, her relationship with Charlie and his wife Brooke.

Denise went to dinner with her ex-husband and his wife, Brooke. And they didn’t kill each other! Hurray! Who knows what really happened, but I doubt Charlie is happy that Denise ran out to E! (story via US Weekly) to give them the scoop on the dinner:

After their bitter breakup and contentious divorce, Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen seemed like they would never want to be in the same room together.

But that’s exactly what they did.

“Believe it or not, we had dinner together with all of us,” Richards — who has two daughters, Sam, 5, and Lola, 3, with her ex — tells E!’s The Daily 10. “So I love that… It’s important for our daughters to see us get along and to be able to be in the same room.”

She adds: “I think anytime you go through a divorce it’s such a huge change in your life, and obviously my divorce was very public and it got very nasty… Charlie and I didn’t want that — we didn’t want all the conflict and this and that, and that’s just was the situation was.”

Their dinner even included 43-year-old Sheen’s wife, Brooke Mueller, who gave birth to twin boys in March.

“Brooke and I have always gotten along, so obviously when we went through what we were all going through it was what it was. But I think she’s great with my girls. They love her.”

She adds that she and Sheen — who divorced in November 2006 after five years of marriage — have managed to put their troubles behind them.

“We’ve worked very hard to get it to this place, and I’m so grateful for it,” the reality star says. “I think it’s important for, you know… It’s a lot less stress, it’s a lot less money, that we get along.”

How was she able to move past their long-standing feud?

“I don’t have a choice but to get past it,” she says. “You know, I don’t read a lot of that stuff obviously — I’m not stupid. I know what’s said in most of it, but it’s just moving forward in my life and at that time when it was really bad in my life, I didn’t think about that stuff. I had to think about, ‘I’m a Mom, I have two daughters that depend on me.’ So I put all that stuff aside and I kind of just live in a little bubble.”

Richards, 38, continues: “I like things very calm and happy.”

[From US Weekly]

What’s interesting about her series It’s Complicated is that Denise actually seems like a nice, average, single soccer mom. She’s usually in sweats, she doesn’t really seem to do that much when her daughters aren’t around, and you can just tell how close she is to her family. I don’t really think Denise is this totally crazy shrew, hellbent on destruction. I think she just took her divorce really badly, and it took a while for her to get back on track. I know, I can’t help it, It’s Complicated was one of my favorite series – it’s better than that friggin’ Keeping Up with the Kardashians any day of the week. Come back, Denise!

Denise Richards is shown out with her daughters on 4/17/09. Credit: RIV/Fame Pictures

Denise Richards offended baseball fans, music fans and everyone with working ears on Friday. She was asked to sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the 7th inning stretch of a Chicago Cubs game. She absolutely murdered the song. Which makes me wonder… why did they even ask her to sing? Did someone ask her, or did she volunteer? In any case, Denise knows that she screwed up, telling the Palm Beach Post (story via US Weekly) that she was “horrifying”:

Denise Richards admits her performance of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” over the weekend was hardly a homerun.

The actress screeched her way through the classic tune during the 7th inning stretch of the Chicago Cubs game on Friday.

“Horrifying,” she told the Palm Beach Post when asked about her performance. “I’m not a singer and then to be in front of all those people is a little terrifying.”

Still, Richards (a native of Downers Grove, Ill.) said she loved being at the famed Wrigley Field.

“You feel like it’s old-school baseball,” she said. “I love how the scoreboard isn’t all digital. It’s very authentic and traditional.”

She said she always loved baseball.

“I got into baseball with Charlie (Sheen, her ex-husband) because he’s such a fan,” she said. “And I played T-ball. I was the only girl on the boys team and I loved it. When I was a kid, I was such a tomboy and as I got a little older, that changed.”

Which celeb slugger would make a great reality show star?

“Alex Rodriguez,” said Richards, who has her own E! show. “Whenever you’re going through things in your personal life, you’re approached. I’m sure that’s why I was approached. And with the Internet and the tabloid magazines, your whole personal life is out there for everybody to see.”

From US Weekly

At least they didn’t ask her to sing the National Anthem. You screw that up, your career is pretty much over. Denise’s career is already in the dumps, so perhaps that’s why she got the “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” pity assignment. And when Denise was with Charlie Sheen, she always pretended to be a huge baseball fan! Was she really into baseball or was she just into it because of Charlie?

I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath to hear the official word.  You can all breathe with ease again, Denise Richards and family have been renewed.  Denise told Us Magazine that her reality show on E!, It’s Complicated, has been renewed for a second season and they will start filming again in a few months.

Denise has been criticized, most ardently by ex-husband Charlie Sheen and his new wife, Brooke Mueller, for including the couple’s girls, Sam, 4, and Lola, 2, in the show.  It’s Complicated follows Denise as she tries to reclaim some respect in Hollywood and raise her daughters.  I would have told her the first thing on the list to successfully do either would be not do a reality show that follows you around while you try to reclaim some respect in Hollywood and raise your daughters.  But my idea of respect and successful parenting don’t include Ryan Seacrest, so Richards and I have different values.

“They (Sam and Lola) weren’t there 24/7, we definitely have set hours,” Richard said. “They have been around this since they were born so they were just happy momma was home working.”

Sam and Lola recently started preschool.

“They are only gone for a couple hours a day but its surreal to me how quick they have gone from babies to preschool,” Richards said.

As for Richards’ dad who is a regular on It’s Complicated?

“He was driving home on the freeway and a group of girls had him roll down his window and they yelled, ‘I love your show!’” Richards said. “He doesn’t know how funny he is. He thought they would only want him for one episode. He is hilarious!”

[From US Magazine]

Irv Richards really is the best part of that show.  He’s obliviously unpretentious.  Most episodes show him steamrolled by his daughter, but not because she’s a celebrity.  Irv is a dad who dotes on his daughter so much he just doesn’t have the heart to say no.  Some might say that’s bad, and that it explains alot about his daughter, but he’s just so darn sweet, it’s impossible to feel negatively toward him.

Actually witnessing Sam and Lola smiling now and then is the only other reason I can recommend watching It’s Complicated.

Denise Richards is shown shopping on 9/12/08. Credit: Fame

It’s been rumored for the last couple months that Denise Richards’ beyond-craptastic reality show Denise Richards: It’s Complicated was going to be summarily dismissed. And just like Denise herself, the show has been kicked to the curb. Viewers seemed to find a lot of Richards’ behavior offensive: her constant (severe) cursing – including around her young daughters, the keeping of far too many pets in her home, and her accusing ex-husband Charlie Sheen of molesting their daughters, a charge that was seen as a last-ditch attempt at television ratings.

Such terrible character attributes would make you think that E! canceled the show because they shouldn’t indulge such a bad person like Denise/exploit the people who are stuck with her. But it seems that it’s just about ratings.

It was complicated, and now it’s over: E! has reportedly canceled Denise Richards’ reality show after low ratings.

“The numbers started out pretty good – just over 1.5 million tuned in for the premiere episode,” a source told The Insider yesterday. “But the audience has dropped off. ”

Denise also received flack from viewers over her potty-mouthed ways around her children on It’s Complicated. Sam and Lola’s appearances on the show were hotly contested by ex-husband Charlie Sheen in court last year.

“Viewers were disgusted that a mother of two young girls would use such foul language,” the source adds. Along with her long-running custody battles with Charlie, other bad showings included Denise confronting an editor over her tabloid image and having a seemingly forced fun girls’ nighs [sic] out.

[From OK! Magazine]

A little while ago Denise bitched about how her young daughters were in therapy. Which is actually one of the few things I’ll give her credit for. We’ve often noted how the poor kids always look completely miserable – not little kid cranky, but utterly despondent – in every single photo we’ve ever seen of the two. Maybe now Denise can dial down the crazy a few notches. And spend a bit more time in family therapy and a bit less time in the courtroom.

Here’s Denise taking a stroll with her dad in Malibu on June 22nd. Fame notes that she’s “looking a bit heavier that usual.” Images thanks to Fame.

Denise Richards is often seen out with her father, Irv, and her two sad-looking daughters, Sam, four, and Lola, three. Richard’s mother died of cancer late last year. Sam and Lola have another set of grandparents on their father’s side, Martin Sheen and his wife of 47 years, Janet Templeton. The two young girls aren’t seeing much of their grandparents on their dad’s side, though. Richards and Sheen went through a contentious divorce in 2005 and 2006.Sheen has visititation rights, which Richards has tried to block and restrict multiple times.

Richards is also said to be blocking access to the girls from Sheen’s parents. They can presumably see their grandparents on their father’s side when they’re visiting their dad, of course, but Martin Sheen is mighty upset that he has limited time with his granddaughters, especially after he tried to defend Richards to his son.

Denise’s ex-dad-in-law, Martin Sheen, regularly defended her when Charlie Sheen ripped her as a derange liar, cheat, skank… etc. – but [Martin] suddenly see’s things [his son's] way now that she’s ruthlessly blocking access to his beloved granddaughters! Said a source:

“Denise stupidly ruined any good will Martin had for her. He was the one cool head in their nasty divorce battle, keeping his son on a leash when he’d start his attack-dog tactics… but no more!”

Martin’s frustrated because Denise – who’d poured her heart out to him in long phone calls when the divorce war began – blows him off when he calls to ask if he and wife Janet can see Sam and Lola, saying “now is not a good time…”

“Denise knows Martin has taken her side many times – so now it’s like she’s spitting in his face.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column, AUgust 25, 2008]

Martin has apologized for his son for asking him to temper his comments about Denise and now sees exactly what he was talking about once she turned on him, too.

Do we expect any other type of behavior from this woman? She accused her husband of child abuse so that she could try and rip visitation away from him, but that was thrown out by a judge who saw it for the ploy that it was. At least her show has been canceled and she’ll have to go back to living on that child support from Charlie. Will she wither away once the spotlight focuses away from her vile self-righteous behavior?

The other day I heard a heartbreaking story about a grandmother who watched her grandson from the time he was an infant until he was five. Her son divorced his wife and she hasn’t seen her grandson since. It’s been 13 years. Charlie and Denise live close enough that they can share visititation despite Denise’s unwillingness to obey court orders, and Charlie’s folks can see their granddaughters when they’re in his care. It’s got to be a slap in the face for Martin to be told by Denise that he can’t see the girls after he listen to her sob story so many times and tried to help smooth things out between the harpy and his son.

Denise Richards is shown out with her dad, Irv, on 8/18/08. Credit: Zink/Fame Pictures

Denise Richards and Richie Sambora in Hawaii on 1/31/07. Credit: Reale/Bauergriffinonline.com
What do you do when your reality show tanks because everyone hates you? If you’re Denise Richards, you try to hook up with the one person on the planet who doesn’t think you’re a psychotic fame whore. Sources say Richards is desperate to get back together with her ex-boyfriend Richie Sambora- but the guitarist is definitely not interested.

“It’s Complicated” – but worse, it’s tanking!

DENISE RICHARDS’ highly touted E! reality TV show is (1) biting it ratings-wise; (2) ex-hubby CHARLIE SHEEN’s kicking her butt divorce court-wise; and (3) romance-wise, she’s gone crawling on her belly like a snake – desperately trying to worm her way back into ex-flame RICHIE SAMBORA’s life!

Now don’t drop dead from surprise, but the booze-challenged rocker won’t even take her calls.

Insiders say Denise started phoning and texting Richie nonstop, begging him to rekindle their romance, and he talked to her patiently at first – telling her he’s just not interested, and has a new relationship cooking.

Denise, refusing to take “NO!” for an answer, told pals she’s furious at Richie – yet won’t stop phone/text-stalking!

[From the National Enquirer]

In the numerous, insane interviews Denise has given over the last few months to promote her show, she has repeatedly said that she still cares about Sambora and that he is a great guy. I guess she was trying to grease the skids with him, hoping he’d want to get back together with her. But when Sambora entered rehab to quit booze, it looks like he quit his Denise addiction, too. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Richie’s habit flared up after being involved with this harpie- I can’t watch five seconds of her show without needing a stiff drink.

Shocking media moment of the day! Denise Richards’ legendarily crappy reality show, Denise Richards: It’s Complicated is getting the boot. Say it ain’t so! Why can’t any good, quality shows find a decent audience these days? Even though the show has lost a huge amount of its viewership – and E! has lost a lot of whatever respect people ever had for the network – I’m pretty sure this gem will end up on Brilliant but Canceled along with Arrested Development and Boomtown.

Former Bond girl Denise Richards’ reality show is facing the axe because of falling viewer figures, according to reports. Denise Richards: It’s Complicated launched on U.S. network E! earlier this year (08) and was an instant hit, allowing viewers a sneak peak into the actress’ life with her two daughters with ex-husband Charlie Sheen.

But sources claim the way she handled her public battle with Sheen over custody of three year old Lola and Sam, two, has turned viewers off. An insider tells America’s Star magazine, “The numbers started out pretty good – just over 1.5 million tuned into the premiere episode. But the audience has dropped off. Denise has turned into an unappealing reality star.”

Richards’ bad language on the programme has also angered the public. The source adds, “Viewers were disgusted that a mother of two young girls would use such foul language.”

[From Contact Music]

Something tells me the tide really turned against Richards when she went to court accusing Charlie Sheen of molesting their daughters to improve her ratings. I’m pretty sure even the most entertainment-starved viewers will take a stand and turn off that crap. I really hope whatever career she had is utterly destroyed after this debacle.

Here’s Denise Richards returning to her car in Los Angeles last Saturday. Images thanks to WENN.