Denise Richards is on the cover of US Weekly promoting her new memoir, The Real Girl Next Door. They have excerpts from the book along with an interview with Denise. As she’s done all along, Denise remains very classy about her ex, Charlie Sheen, and refrains from trashing him. She even says that she’s not going to cut him out of her daughters’ lives and is working to make sure they have a good relationship with their father. Denise finally gives her side of the story on Charlie’s infamous NY hotel freakout on a porn star/hooker, when she was staying across the hall with her daughters and a nanny. It’s not very salacious, though, and just gives Denise’s take on that night and how it affected her. She doesn’t even speculate on what the hell Charlie was thinking, nor does she say one bad word against him. You can tell she was embarrassed, though, and that it wasn’t easy for her to have dinner with a bunch of hookers that night.

“Charlie invited me to this dinner with ‘friends,’ and once I realized what these women did for a living, I thought, ‘It’s one meal; you can suck it up and get through it,'” Richards, 40, recalls of dining with Sheen’s porn star pals. “It’s not my place to judge how they make a paycheck.”

Richards goes into further detail in her new memoir, Real Girl Next Door (out now). “After I quieted [our daughters Sam, 7, and Lola, 6] down, I climbed into bed; I had to get up early for my press. About an hour later, I was awakened by sounds outside my door, including walkie-talkies, which is never a good sign,” she writes. “A few minutes later, the cops showed up. Several officers went into Charlie’s room, and a sergeant came into mine.”

As the sergeant struggled to make sense of the situation (“Your ex-husband is staying in the room across the hall while you’re in this room?” he asked Richards. “And you went to dinner with him and there were hookers there at the table?”), the actress kept her composure and told him everything she knew.

“Charlie was put into an ambulance, and I rode with the sergeant to the hospital, though I insisted I had to be back at 4:30 a.m.,” she writes. “After making sure Charlie was stable and settled, the nice policeman gave me a ride back.”

Given her long, dramatic history with Sheen, 45, why does Richards continue to have a relationship with her ex? “I’ll never cut off contact with Charlie,” she tells Us. “He’s my girls’ dad. As they’re older they’ll deal with him how they can.”

“A lot of women can’t relate to being married to Charlie Sheen or divorcing Charlie Sheen,” she adds, “but they can relate to feeling sad, angry, scared and upset.

[From US Weekly]

I read the whole US Weekly article in the print edition, and there’s barely anything more worth quoting. She talks about her multiple boob jobs and having two bad plastic surgeons who put in implants that were too big before she finally got them to a size she was comfortable with. She also denies breaking girl code by dating her ex friend, Heather Locklear’s ex husband, Richie Sambora, back in 2006. Denise claims that she and Richie were both going through divorces at the time and that she wasn’t betraying Heather’s friendship since they weren’t friends at that point anyway. We’ve heard all this from Denise.

It’s totally commendable how she’s refrained from stating the obvious – that Charlie is off the rails and is not fit to watch her dogs, nonetheless her kids. Still, it would be a hell of a lot more interesting if she would admit that the guy is a complete whack job and that she dodged a bullet by getting him out of her life. She’s doing the right thing for her daughters, though, and probably for her bank account. I’m sure that Charlie’s money is helping her be much more delicate about the whole situation. Anyone who married Charlie Sheen and flaunted a relationship with Richie Sambora can’t be that classy.

Denise is shown on 7/26 and 7/27. Credit: Fame and WENN