Charlie Sheen’s ex, Denise Richards, has been caring for his four year-old twin boys with his more recent ex, Brooke Mueller, on and off for about the last year. Brooke is an addict who was deemed unfit by DCFS to care for her sons, Max and Bob. Brooke’s latest attempt at rehab was her 21st try (no sh*t) and involved switching facilities because Betty Ford required manual labor.
Brooke recently regained unsupervised overnight visitation with her boys despite the fact that she was previously deemed unfit by the California Department of Child and Family Services to care for them. Charlie argues, very convincingly, that Brooke is an incompetent mom, and that the boys should not have visits with her. In a recent interview with TMZ, he called Brooke’s house a “horror show” and said that she should be in jail for the way she’s endangered their children. You can watch that interview on TMZ.
Charlie told TMZ that Brooke’s house is “filled with creeps and cretins that have no business being around children,” including other druggies and drug dealer types, and that Brooke is using again. He claimed that the boys are being emotionally damaged by staying with Brooke and that they act out whenever they return from Brooke’s home. He also told a disturbing story about his son Bob returning from Brooke’s home with a big burn on his face. Things are complicated by the fact that the boys may have fetal alcohol syndrome, by Charlie’s estimate, from Brooke drinking while she was pregnant.
At about 6 minutes into the interview with TMZ, Charlie started talking about DCFS and their idiotic decision to let Brooke have unsupervised visits with the boys. He said that “there’s obviously some bribery taking place, there’s obviously something going on that’s leading those reports to be glowing… [the boys] are being sent back to the house of horrors.”
Well DCFS likely got word of that, because Charlie was just denied access to his children. TMZ reports that a DCFS agent called Denise Richards and told her that the boys were not allowed to visit their father that day.
Charlie Sheen loves to talk smack. He hires porn star hookers to live with him, he buys suitcases full of blow, and yet he still feels qualified to trash other people. This is not unlike my career choice. There are countless reasons why he should not have custody of his sons, but to deny him access to see them right after he questioned DCFS’s motivations just seems punitive. It makes DCFS look like they have an axe to grind and are more concerned about their reputation than the best interests of the children.
At the end of his interview with TMZ, Charlie really brought it home. He said that Max and Bob, again they’re 4, don’t know what Halloween is, “have never been trick or treating, they’ve never had a Christmas tree, they don’t know who the Tooth Fairy is, they don’t know who the Easter Bunny is, they’ve never had a holiday celebration at her house.”
Charlie used to pay Brooke $55,000 a month in child support. He vows to go to court to fight for his boys.
Denise Richards is shown with her daughters, Sam and Lola, and Max and Bob on 7-25-13. Brooke Mueller is shown at an event with the boys on 10-29-11. Charlie Sheen is shown on The Tonight Show in April, 2013. Credit: FameFlynet and WENN.com
These people are awful… Why wont they give those kids to Denise already…. CDAn had a BI about her adopted little one being Charlie’s as well, with some druggie hooker type with ensuing health issues etc, but Denise being happy to do it…, people started posting pics and IDK ..she favors him in that way all his kids kinda do
That would make sense. I couldn’t figure out why on earth she would adopt a third child as a single mom when she had two lovely girls at home and a complicated ex relationship. I still can’t help but wonder whether Denise is doing all of this because she gets paid so well, knowing her past. I don’t doubt she’s caring for the children properly, but would she do it for the sake of the kids alone? I hope so.
I feel so badly for those poor boys. It seems damage has already been done. Maybe don’t make any more kids with addicts like yourself, eh Charlie?
When Denise was given the twins, she TURNED DOWN the offer of the additional $55k that Brooke had been getting as child support. Nobody knows about Eloise, but she is raising her girls with Charlie and his boys on the girls’ child support.
Well Denise, Idk i take exception with ” why would she want another kid” stuff, they are NOT for me for sure so I don’t get and would never understand that urge but some women just want and like to be moms ( my sis is one of those ladies) so it could be Nothing else than Yep, she wanted more, irrespective of Charlie’s shit, That might still hold true cause what busy semi working woman wouldn’t say to an ex: “look i cant have your kids full time” and not be totally understood (seeing as how she has 3 of her own already) But…hey maybe she likes kids and that hustle and bustle..is not like is making her cashmoney …She isnt taking more money for the twins… But also what she gets for the girls is enough for not Hollywood rich people to feed a family just fine
I was initially skeptical, but it seems she really cares for these boys. She also has another motive. These ate her children’s brothers, and perhaps she’s wise enough to realize that it’s best for her kids if they’re able to have healthy sibling relationships with kids who are stable and well cared for.
I think Denise is doing a fantastic job and the kids can be happy to be in her care. She seems like the only decent part in their lives. Charlie is nuts, but why someone like Brooke is allowed to have unsupervised visits of the kids is beyond my imagination.
Yup, gotta agree with everyone else about Denise. Don’t think there’s anything shady about her love of Charlie’s kids, especially as she’s turned down additional child support from Charlie. Charlie being denied access to his kids for making a random comment, and BROOKE allowed visitation?? Can’t say as I blame him, sounds like graft or something sneaky to me.
Remember, it was only a few years ago when he was ranting to the press about Denise and calling her awful names. She took the high road and refused to engage him.
thank you! I have been saying this in celebitchy comments since they showed the first photos of the baby! she def has those sheen qualities…
I feel so sorry for those innocent babies. I don’t understand why courts continually try to “reunite” families when there are clear patterns of abuse and neglect. The only reason why Brooke wants those kids is because of the checks she gets. Charlie is an absolute mess but he’s not wrong. Shame on DCFS for not doing their jobs.
I totally agree with everything you said. Children suffer when the courts become obsessed with reunited biological families rather than placing them in the safest, most stable home. My local newspaper (The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) did an award-winning, multi-part piece on the impact of repeated reunification attempts on children and it was heartbreaking. Brooke has been given chance after chance and failed them all. Those little boys have had and seen enough in their lives.
I used to work in child welfare, in Florida. I totally get what everyone is saying, but the alternative is often foster care. Which is an unimaginable hell. Because where are the safe, stable homes??????? Often nowhere to be found. After working in child protective investigations, with current foster care kids and then — now — with young adults who have aged out of the system… There is such incredible abuse in group homes and among foster families. Unless the kid gets a healthy, patient, stable foster family (they are out there but are rare, in my professional experience), then that kid is basically screwed. Look up the stats for kids coming out of foster care, they are super grim. Many of my clients (and this is no exaggeration), end up: dead, in jail/prison, locked in a cycle of grinding poverty and instability, stuck in the mental health system and/or as mothers and fathers who become abusers themselves.
I understand that reuniting kids with abusive families is awful. But the reality is… What else to do? Farm them into state care, which often is equally abusive and traumatic? Child welfare is a lose-lose situation all the way around. Society does not value abused kids, we pay lip service to it all. And this is the price we pay for that.
I was one of those stable foster families, and our case worker was a drunk who continually bonded with the birth mom, who abandoned her children repeatedly in multiple states, sold them for child porn, drugged two of them, and shot all three up with dirty needles while being HIV+. The youngest died from AIDS at age 11 after the kids had been in foster care for 7 years.
We were repeatedly told not to fight the system, who refused to cut off mom’s rights even though she didn’t do anything on her reunification plan, failed rehab 7 times after kids were removed from home, and had already lost one set of kids 20 years earlier. They threatened to remove the kids from our home if we ever questioned anything they did (like drunkenly telling mom what school the kids were enrolled in while she was being tried for pimping them out, and then she promptly tried to kidnap them).
We were also repeatedly discriminated against for being the wrong race. The children were black, we were white. However, when we were at the foster parenting classes (we knew the family so had to become foster parents AFTER the kids were abandoned) every black family there wanted a light skinned baby (even if they themselves were darker skinned African Americans). NOBODY wanted kids who had been exposed to AIDS, no one wanted older kids (4, 7, 9).
Yet our social worker continually rolled over the mom’s plan to avoid having to make a decision about the kids. Mom missed almost all of her mandated kid visits and we watched those kids heart’s break over and over again (because kids love their parents no matter how crappy they are). In the end, we had to track crackhead mom down and get her to sign them over in order to adopt.
DFACS is too much on theory and not enough on taking care of the kids. Had we not tracked the mom down, all three kids would have been in foster care until they aged out or died. And they threated anyone who dared to question them on the facts.
The youngest died 15 years ago but she had a family with her, not black, not her birth family, but people who cared for her every step of the way while she was ill. The other two have grown up to be very productive individuals. In an ideal world they would have had a loving black family if only to cut down on questions about their “real” mom when they were growing up, but I think all things considered we did very well.
There were some great people at DFACS but they were far outweighed by the burnt out, the frustrated and the “theory” lovers. And far too many kids fall thru the cracks. If you’re a good foster family you’re going to question and push to make sure the birth parents are truly stable before the kids are returned home, and they don’t like that.
We met way too many other foster parents who were also the “wrong color” or “too pushy” who had kids pulled from their homes, temporarily returned to the birth parents who promptly screwed up, and then, as punishment to the original foster parents, would be sent to a new foster family. I think it was DFACS attempt to bury its mistakes.
I live in the deep south. At the time of all this (early 1990’s) all black children over the age of 1 were considered special needs adoptions just by being black (ie no fetal alcohol syndrome or any other special needs). All white children over age 7 were also considered special needs as they were “too old”. That’s how few families were out there. But that is also a sign of how badly DFACS treats any foster families out there with a brain or who are not in it to cash checks.
Its a crappy system.
Ellen, your story just breaks my heart. Thank goodness for people like you.
Diana,
I know this is overly simplistic, but I think there’s another alternative to dumping these children in foster care. Their parental rights should be severed and the children should be available for adoption. It’s disgusting what parents are allowed to do and still maintain rights. I raised my cousin’s 12 y/o daughter after he went to prison for molesting her – his rights were not taken away. If he got out before she turned 18, he would have taken her from me with full support of the state. In Illinois, a woman was released from the state mental health facility, given her toddler, and the state acted surprised when the child was found dead by hanging. I’m not impartial due to my experience with my cousin and being adopted myself – I realize this. I don’t want to live in a country in which children can be seized with little to no evidence. But these people are given the benefit of the doubt over and over again. A child’s best chance of being adopted dwindles dramatically as they age. These years are wasted on waiting for these loser parents to step up and straighten up. Surely statistics can be used to demonstrate how often a child is left to languish in foster care before they age out of the system. It’s compounded by the fact that many of these parents are excellent at manipulation, especially when the odds are in their favor, and they’re dealing with an overworked social worker.
These types of stories right here, above me, is why I want to adopt older kids. I’ve started to make a six year plan, to (hopefully) get myself together and settled enough to at least start the adoption process by the time I’m 25.
I just can’t imagine being rejected, especially by other black families, for your skin color. For being too dark. I’m black (but pale as a ghost), but I’ll never have to go through that. That’s how my aunt was chosen by her godmother–her godmother was one of those black people that were racist against the darker skinned black people, so she chose my second oldest aunt because she was the lightest one of them all. Disgusting.
I agree also. I don’t understand why the courts care more about the parents’ rights instead of what is best for the kids. I see no value in putting children right back into the abusive and/or neglectful environment they were taken out of in the first place. Just recently near the city I live a little girl who was ‘reunited’ with her mother (who had served time for child abuse) and she was killed by her. I wish more attention was paid to child abuse. It seems like animal rights get more publicity and celebrities promote it, but not much interest for abused children. Makes me so sad.
Are u in Atlanta?
Diana pretty much summed it up in her comment above, but basically the foster-care system is broken. There are great foster families out there, but not as many as you’d hope, and most of them are already at capacity. The alternatives to sending the kids back home are not much better. It’s a really sad situation all around, and people who work in social services are very underpaid and overworked, especially given how traumatic the job itself can be.
I take umbrage at Sheen going after DCFS when HE is causing the problem. If Brooke can’t get clean and take care of the kids, guess what? He’s their father. It’s his job. But he’s just as selfish and terrible of a parent as she is, so he won’t do it. It’s easier to blame underpaid state workers than to take some freaking responsibility for his own kids.
if something happen to those babies it will be on their heads. shame on them
I believe that DCFS denied visitation to Charlie not because he accused them of bribery but because he defied a court-ordered mandate to not talk about Brooke or the custody arrangement.
Did Charlie actually take care of his kids? If they don’t know what Christmas is, or any other holiday he deems important, how does one person deserve all the blame? Denise seems to be the only real parent in all of this. I’m not sticking up for Brooke, but he called her a whore, in a very public way, and I’m not getting into the crap about that, but isn’t it damaging to his kids to have this berating of their mother? I suspect Charlie’s house has been filled with creeps and cretins as well, based on stories about prostitutes and drug usage. Pot meet kettle. He hasn’t changed a bit, in terms of how he expresses himself. That said, child protective services shouldn’t have given unsupervised time with Brooke.
Charlie’s house is indeed filled with creeps and cretins – when he’s in it!
The boys are wearing red firemen costumes in that photo with Brooke. I have a feeling they do know what Halloween and Christmas are.
To be fair, Charlie didn’t say that the kids didn’t know what Halloween and Christmas were. He was saying that they have never truly experienced those holidays — no trick or treating, no Christmas tree… which I can sort of believe.
There was a video on TMZ before Brooke went into rehab this last time and her hands were all charred, which she blamed on her hobby (making jewelry) but everyone else guessed it was from her drug activities. This makes the story about her son having a burn on his face totally believable.
He could have stepped in at any time, right? I mean if you are invested in your kids as a parent, you can do those things as a father. There isn’t a law that says that a father can’t teach his kids, or take them on activities, or to nurture them. Just saying he wants someone to do it, doesn’t make him father of the year. There are actual single dads who do everything. They might have to forgo hookers, booze, rants and crank, but, you know, priorities and whatnot.
Kiddo: I totally agree with you. I’m not saying that Charlie is not to be blamed but I was just clearing up what he said. I do think he is the lesser of two evils in this case (but still evil in his own right!) I don’t know the custody arrangement but maybe he hasn’t had the kids on certain holidays? And yes, there is absolutely no reason why the boys shouldn’t have experienced trick or treating and every kid that celebrates Christmas should have a Christmas tree.
Sorry, I didn’t intend to sound like an a*hole, but maybe I did. I wasn’t jumping all over you, just the subject.
Kiddo — no need to apologize at all! I totally agree w/what you said and just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t giving Charlie a pass. It’s just a sad situation all around. Hopefully the kids will still have a lot of time and exposure to Denise, as she seems to give them the most stable and *normal* home life.
kiddo, your first post reminds me of my cousin. He married this baths-t crazy woman, who is in no way mother material AT ALL. She was married before, and had a son–when they got a divorce, she didn’t even try to have any type of custody arrangement with her son at all. His dad has full custody of his son. And my cousin just divorced her a few months ago, and it’s the same thing with their daughter. It’s like my little cousin doesn’t even exist to her. Which is sad. I can’t imagine any parent just abandoning their kid like that.
If you went on his Facebook, you wouldn’t have even known that he was married–all of his posts are ALWAYS about his daughter (and his car 🙂 ). They just went to a football game (Rams vs. Titans), wearing matching jerseys. And I was talking to him last night, saying that I hadn’t ever saw a guy who spent so much time with his kid–because if he’s not at work, he’s with her. And he told me that he always did his best to spend as much time with her as he could, because when he was younger he didn’t get to spend a lot of time with his dad, because his dad and mom didn’t get along (his mom’s family was really racist–they were mexican and lived across the street from my family (who are black) and thought they were better than us)….
So I say kudos to him, and to any dad who does what they’re supposed to do, and don’t expect a medal.
I don’t believe Charlie when he says they don’t know what Christmas and Hallowe’en are- Denise would include them for sure!
Exactly. I question any man that would think Brooke Mueller is mother material.
I have a feeling that Sheen was partying and drinking up a storm while she was pregnant and I wouldn’t be surprised if he encouraged, or at the very least, turned a blind eye to her alcohol abuse.
They’re both disgusting and I feel for those little kids.
If it is true that Charlie is vowing to fight for his boys, he had better clean up his act considerably.. He expresses all this outrage about how his kids are being raised and look how he lives his life. If he really cared about his kids, he would cut out the booze, drugs and women and behave himself. Those poor boys are lucky to have Denise in their lives. Too bad Brooke and Charlie are even in the picture.
Thank you. I’m so tired of hearing people defend Sheen when he’s no better than Brooke is. Why hasn’t HE taken them trick-or-treating? Or given them a proper Christmas?
Celebitchy!! Please tell me you put those two pictures together on purpose! Brooke can hardly stand up holding the kids and Denise is making it look like a walk in the park! (Why they need to be carried is another question.)
I did put them together on purpose!
also, you can see RIGHT through her shirt. while she’s holding her kids.
I remember when these pics were first published and people were saying that that Brooke was totally on something because of the way she was acting (and showing up for a kids event wearing a see-through shirt and no bra). I didn’t believe it at the time because I didn’t think she’d be messed-up around her kids but now I totally believe that she is just messed-up all the time.
It’s very possible after many years of neglect, they crave being held and touched by a mother-figure and that is why she is always carrying them. They may also be frightened by the paps and act out if she doesn’t carry them.
I recently read this article, about foster children (it had to do with adopting older kids), that you, as the parent, should always try to at least make eye contact with them. Little things like looking up in your rearview mirror, catching their eye, and smiling at them–hugging them, and so on.
I’d want to be hugged if I were them.
Look how happy and relaxed they are with Denise, and how tense and unhappy they are with methhead Brooke. I hope she never gets custody. I don’t understand how she ended up with unsupervised visitation.
Those children look VERY unhappy & uncomfortable in the pic with Brooke.
Granted they are on a red carpet (unlike photo w/ Denise) but they look unhappy to be with Brooke really. Most kids who are unhappy on red carpets at least turn to their parents for support, I don’t see that so much here.
They may need to be carried due to lack of focused motherly carrying type attention when they were younger.
is that Brooke’s nipple? ugh!
I just noticed that – nice touch there with it right near her son’s head.
oops will blur that out.
I wouldnt take anything Charlie says too seriously. Did he report the burn he claims his son came home with? Has he raised concerns over the “cretins” she has over with the authorities? If so, were these things investigated and what were the findings? I doubt he has though. Every now and then Charlie just goes off on someone in his life, probably sparked by an insignificant slight. The guy is nuts!
In any case, dfcs went after him for trashing their mum on a public forum. He has plenty of avenues to privately raise his issues with her including court. Trashing a parent affects their ability to parent but even worse, is a form of child abuse. Ofcourse, everytime a female celeb tries to pull this we call them out. Why Charlie “coke” Sheen keeps getting a pass here baffles me.
When he goes off the rails, it seems to be an indicator that he is back to tweaking his brain out. There are two Charlies, one who can have intelligent insight, and the other is insanely rageful with no filter or common sense.
Well, Charlie did say that Brooke has lizards running wild all over her place and that the boys are terrified of them. Then Brooke released a statement saying that the boys loved the lizards. So not everything that he is saying should be disbelieved, cause BM confirmed that there are lizards in her house. lizards…GROSS…
I would think that Charlie’s outburst might indicate that he is “having issues” mentally (again) or that he might be on another bender (drugs/alcohol). I do not believe that he is drug free or is perfect mental health. So if he went off like this to TMZ, the Child Protection people might have been worried he would do the same at his access visit in front of the boys. So no access visit until they can talk to him.
That’s what I think too. He turns into an all out bully when cranking. And TMZ famously sides with men in celebrity matches.
Exactly! Again, should have read the comments before I posted.
For some reason, it really bothers me that he’s now throwing out the fetal alcohol syndrome claim. I don’t doubt it’s a possibility, but they don’t have the typical appearance of FAS. I know celebrity children have to deal with public lives in general, but he’s now possibly stigmatizing them as mentally challenged. Their lives are going to suck enough without this label following them around when they’re grown and (hopefully) attempting a stable life and career.
I wonder if Martin Sheen has made any attempt to get the boys. I know he’s up there in age, but he’s been married to the same woman for over 50 years, has a pretty clean reputation, and is financially secure. Grandparents often step up in this situation, and most of them don’t have the resources of the Sheens. Maybe it’s a reflection of their respect for Denise Richards’ parenting, but at the end of the day, Denise is not their mother, and she’s probably going to end up like many foster parents – watching helplessly while the children are given back to their abusive parents
One article I read said that all parties in the custody case are under a gag order, and Charlie’s rant violated that.
Is that actually her nipple showing in last picture? Poor little boys, hope they are safe
I know that people highly dislike Sheen and I totally get that and agree but I think out of the two parents he cares for those children ( in his messed up way) and simply wants them out of the clutches of that hideous mess Brooke. I am sorry, but this woman is never going to change. As long as she is given chances by her own family and the courts, she will never get better. Denise is the only true parent those children know and the kids need to stay with her full time. Brooke needs to stay away and allow these children a chance. She is a greedy drug addict.
I so agree with you. I believe that people can change but I don’t think she has yet and I think this is a play to get those kids back to get the money back. I don’t think Charlie may have said it right but I do agree that something is wrong here and between the two of them he is indeed the better parent. She should not hav e overnight visits until she can prove she has been off drugs for at least a year.
The smartest thing Charlie ever did was marry Denise. She is the only shot those poor kids have.I’m glad she took them in
Neither Charlie and Brooke should have unsupervised time with these children. It is pretty clear that Denise is the only responsible one in the picture.
+1000
+400 billion
Those poor kids. They are so lucky Denise is acting as their surrogate mother even though she has no biological connection to them. Brooke and Charlie are unfit parents who should never regain custody of them even though they are biological parents. I suspect Brooke wants them back for the $55,000 monthly child support checks. Charlie is too selfish and fighting his own demons to make permanent changes suited to care for his children. I hope the children remain with Denise. She is their only hope for normalcy in their lives at the moment.
I cannot bear CS but I was sort of under the impression that he’s very well aware that he is incapable of looking after those boys. At the very least he is aware that the best shot they have is if they stay with Denise. The whole thing makes me want to cry actually. I might not be the best parent in the world but Christ, I look like a saint in comparison to this mess.
It’s easy to feel bad for those two little boys. Both parents are a mess.
Agreed. I don’t think Charlie is fighting to have the children with HIM, god forbid, but to keep them safe and healthy under Denise’s care so they remain a part of his life and safely cared for by someone he has a functional relationship with.
Stories like this make me shake my head at the universe- these two off the rails crazies not only get pregnant, but with TWINS??? Poor boys. And poor CPS workers assigned to work this train wreck – he should have more respect for them. If mom is back to unsupervised visits, it means she has met the criteria the court imposed bef that could happen. I would have more respect for him if he was getting his own act together in order to take care of his sons, as opposed to defaulting to his ex.
The photo of the boys with Denise breaks my heart. They deserve to be with a mama who will give them stability and love…and that’s Denise, not the biological mother.
The wonky, unfettered nipple the biological’s flashing in the last picture as she’s grinning and near-dropping the boys is vulgar. Who let that dog out?
didnt she go through a lot of fertility treatments to have these babies? the cynic in me thinks it was for the child support but neither of these people should have any unsupervised visitation. It takes more than 6 months to come off meth/crack and be functional as a parent.
also, i think its wrong cps is punishing charlie for talking about his worries about his childrens welfare. ugh i could never live in california. so much wrong with that state. brooke mueller gets her kids back, chris brown will get 30 minutes in jail, and lindsay lohan unleashes the cracken on the east coast.
Give them to Denise. Charlie and Brooke are BOTH unfit – at least Charlie seems to recognize that those boys should be with Denise. FWIW, they don’t show any of the hallmark physical signs of FAS, but I’m struck by how different they look in the pic with Denise as opposed to the pic with Brooke – with Denise, there are actual facial expressions and with Brooke, they look blank.
Those poor babies, this woman has been to rehab so many times, has been deemed an unfit parent repeatedly, yet they are giving her unsupervised overnight visits? That is sick! Her visits should always be supervised and definitely during the day. At the minimum those boys probably emotional and psychological damage. God knows what they’ve seen and heard. It’s obviously going to take one of them getting seriously hurt before they take them away for good. So sad.
Denise should just get sole custody, I swear.
Neither she (Brooke) nor Charlie need to be allowed unsupervised visitation. I’m not saying Brooke never need to have unsupervised visits but she needs to prove she’s clean and will stay that way for a while. Thank goodness those boys have Denise though, she’s far more stable than either of their parents.
I assure you Charlie has been told and even court ordered not to talk about this case. All proceedings and documents are sealed. That’s because it’s about the kids, who did nothing wrong. 15 yrs from now (or less) the boys will google themselves and find all this crap. So will their teachers, friends, exes, etc. f u Charlie. Until you can think of your kids first, you shouldn’t see them unsupervised. If you have concerns about their mom, take it to the court not the press. It’s up to the court anyway, not dcfs.
This is true – he should never have gone on a radio station to broadcast this; it just makes him sound insane.
I so agree with you, KK! The MAJOR ABUSER of Charlie’s kids is CHARLIE SHEEN, himself. All this crap he’s talking about his ex-wife, Brooke, (poorly disguised as CONCERN for his kids) just screams to me that he is the lowest of the low.
Ummmm…. no, Charlie is not abusing these kids, he rarely sees them and probably never alone (Charlie alone with five kids? No chance.).
Charlie isn’t abusing these kids, he’s trying to ensure they remain in a good environment and he seems well aware that’s not under his care.
I think there has to be more to this story than we know. Again “sources” are telling us this. What Charlie is ranting about is that Brooke is having unsupervised visits, not that his visitation was taken away. I’m sure if Charlie’s visitation was taken away we would have heard him screaming it from the roof tops. Charlie’s house is no better than Brooke’s house. I agree with others that NEITHER should have unsupervised visits. While Charlie may see that the boys are better off with Denise, maybe he should get his act together and behave as an adult and as the boys’ father. While I applaud Denise for giving these boys a stable environment, she should not have to do so.
Actually Charlie’s house probably IS better than Brooke’s house because he can afford servants to address any needs he or the children have.
Brooke’s house is just full of distracted crackheads.
Charlies house is filled with porn stars, hookers, godesses and the occassional dealer. He is probably worse for those kids than Brook, especially when you factor in his extensive history of physical abuse. It wouldnt even matter if he had a child psycologist living there too, Charlie listens to Nobody. Not his dad or his bro or his lifelong friends or his boss or his colleagues or his exes. All of whom he has lashed out at in the past for deigning to advise him. The man is mentally unstable, and an addict, and a megalomaniac; a very dangerous combination. I am surprised they were allowin him any access at all.
Wasn´t it Christmas when Charlie tried to kill Brooke and she called the police? No Christmas tree when they were maried… hmmm.
The photos show Brooke and her boys (in costumes) on a Los Angeles Children-Halloween party. But they don´t know what Halloween is? WTF
This asshole Charlie bashes his druggie-ex as bad mother but what was/is he doing? Why are the boys with his other ex-wife and not with him? A good, loving dad would change his life style and be with his boys.
These poor kids. Give them to Denise and only allow supervised visitation with Charlie and Brooke. And make sure large chunk of Charlie’s money is set aside for counselling and other help they will inevitably need, before he puts it all up his nose.
I seem to remember him saying horrible things about Denise Richards a few years back…
That was just the Tiger Blood talking.
Um… if those boys don’t know about those things isn’t it just as much Charlie’s fault as Brooke’s? The whole situation sounds suspect, like Charlie did something wrong and he went to TMZ first to leak negative press about Brooke and the DCF decision relates to whatever Charlie did that Brooke likely went to DCF about. Either way its juvenile and no one except Denise seems to be thinking of the children AT ALL. Its just sad how kids always suffer the consequences of adults’ behavior.
I suspect that the reason the agency banned him from visiting the boys for now is that when Charlie starts mouthing off to the press about paranoid theories, it’s usually a sign that he’s using or having an episode again.
I wouldn’t trust Charlie, but Brooke should not see her kids unsupervised until they can ask for that to happen. On the plus side, just going by from adorable (albeit total Sheen) faces, they don’t have FAS. Though the recognizable face is not the only physical sign, it’s the most usual. It’s more likely that they are emotionally stunted from their confusing first years. The first five are the most crucial for so many things.
look at their sad little faces. heartbreaking.
CS and BM -both awful. horrible. disgusting. not enough bad words to describe them.
2 complete losers that blame each other for their own failures.
poor little boys that never asked for nor deserve those 2 horrendous parents.
I wonder if the boys call Denise mama since the girls do, and she is the only mommy they seem to have. And until Brooke has proven to be clean and sober for a LONG time, I don’t agree that she should have unsupervised visits of any length (and certainly not overnight) of those precious babies. They are happy and thriving with Denise, in a loving and stable home, so no need to upset the apple cart again by exposing them to Brooke’s craziness so soon.
Certainly Charlie needs to clean up his act if he wants to regain custody, but at least he knows that the boys are safer and better off with Denise than him right now. Brooke and Charlie are a case of “two nutjobs don’t cancel each other out, they just make it twice as bad”.
I have got to stand with Charlie’s assessment of DCFS dropping the ball on this one. I have mentioned in the past that I am from California, born and raised. However, I raise my children in another state.
I am disgusted by California State Child Protective Services (not exactly the same as the Department of Child and Family Services but they work together in CA)- their “investigations” are a joke, in my opinion, which is based on (several) first hand experience(s). It seems that laws and policies in place to protect minors are arbitrarily followed – children are taken away from families/individuals/guardians with sometimes minimal evidence, and then at other times, again, several incidents/circumstances of neglect/abuse, witnessed or confessed offenses are not prosecuted, and children are left in suspect environments, at best. It is heartbreaking. It keeps me up at night. I have minor family members in CA, and these are the kids whose welfare I worry about, daily. Even when presented with evidence of abuse by the children injured, things get “brushed under the rug.” I have seen child molesters go free, unregistered. The children of the great state of California are being under-served.
This situation is just sad.
I’m going to lighten the mood by pointing out the pic of tiny Denise carrying both boys at yhe same time. OMG so funny
Then why won’t Charlie step up and be a fucking father to these boys instead of letting his OTHER ex-wife raise them!??!?! Charlie is a piece of shit and the boys should have no contact with him, either. If he is SO concerned for the safety of his sons, he should clean up HIS act so HE can provide for them and give them the very best of care his money can possibly buy! What a rotten motherfucker!
I think the most telling thing in these images is the body language of the kids. The frozen, wary way they are holding their mother, compared to the more relaxed cling of kids who feel safe, with Denise. A friend is a court appointed social worker who commented that body language (not so much expression unless it’s frozen and detached – a grumpy look is fine!) tells her way more than parental words when accusations are being made. Nahla Aubrey for example looks happy and chilled with all the adults in her life, whatever the accusations or suspicions. These boys look scared rigid with both birth parents, for all Charlie’s rage about their mom. Thank God for Denise, that’s all I can say.
And Charlie Sheen is a creep, but at least he knows the kids are better off with someone else. Their mother is so obviously loathe to lose her cash cows. How the hell, when there is a safe, loving kinship foster placement (the holy grail of foster arrangements) DCFS want to disrupt it and put them back at risk with their mom, I have no idea. Unsupervised is the part that scares me. Frankly, contact with either parent should have a mandated, court-approved qualified nanny as a prerequisite.
Although I agree with what he said, the only parenting that Charlie needs to be doing right now is writing those checks–I don’t think he’s ever going to pull himself together, and by the time he does, it’s going to be too late and those kids won’t want to have anything to do with him. Wasn’t that time when he trashed that motel room and was having sex and doing drugs with that hooker/porn star was when he was spending time with his kids–meaning Denise was kind enough to have a family trip and invite him too.
Many thanks to CB for posting this and starting an important conversation–and thanks to both ELLEN and DIANA for your posts about the often-harrowing experiences of foster kids. Jesus, to see the looks of misery on the faces of both Bob and Max whenever they’re pictured with their trainwreck of a mom–it really is both chilling and heartbreaking. Also, the posts about Charlie’s equally dissolute life, and his clear CHOICE to let someone else raise his kids rather than give up his drugs and prostitutes –it really was right and fair to point that out. I hate to see people questioning Denise’s motives, when it’s a well-known fact that she refused the $55K monthly child support that Charlie had been giving to their mess of a mother. Ditto the adoption of Denise’s third daughter–who cares where that little girl came from? The last thing any child needs at her tender age is to have her parentage questioned in gossip mags. Clearly, Denise loves being a mom–even to kids who are not her own biological issue. I have no doubt that she is the one constant source of peace, happiness, and family-life those kids have had or will ever have. What a freaking mess! I hate to even imagine the things that might well happen to Bob and Max while alone in the “care” of their “mother,” and I can just see the articles later about how DCFS somehow let these two innocent little boys fall thru the cracks and into the crackhouse.
What moron would allow this drug addicted lunatic unsupervised visits with ANY child? Why deliberately endanger the kids? And Charlie should’ve been snipped and not allowed to procreate, but at least he knows it and isn’t trying to raise any of the five kids he’s fathered. To punish him for speaking out is ridiculous.
Well it would certainly seem like they are taking bribes. It seems like Children’s Protective Services hires the most inept, incompetent people they can find. 21 times to clean up for your kids??? How about once or twice? If you can’t get your shit together, you shouldn’t have the opportunity to keep your kids. No one seems to think about the poor kids. Being with Denise Richards is the BEST possible scenario. The DCFS employees and judge(s) involved need to get their heads out of their asses and do the right thing (and letting their crackie mom have access to them isn’t it). Not to mention the possibility of them being molested or who knows what by her druggie friends.
I get it, I’m maternal, and now that I can handle a few, what’s a few more? Also when kids are abused, it increases those instincts. I’m the block mom. What it all comes down to is more love. I’m not hurting financially, and sincerely know home economics.
I know I’m not as thin as some druggy, and sold all my 1990s platforms. But my life has a.different course.
Don’t feel sorry for me because I have a live out lover, and all the kids call him to visit…We all adore him. Hope Denise has something like this too;)
I doubt very much that children’s services denied him visitation because of what he said about Brooke or the department. That’s the story TMZ was peddling, then a day or two later it turned out that Brooke had obtained a temporary restraining order because she said his public remarks threatened her. Those are very easy to get and any visits would be off until a judge could decide if the order should be extended, just as a precautionary measure. The judge disagreed and removed the restraining order. She can go to court in a month if she really thinks she has a case, but my guess is that closer scrutiny will not end well for her. It’s really about $$$- she gets a lot of money only when she has custody. If Charlie gets full custody, he’ll leave the boys with Denise. Hopefully they can work out a permanent guardianship situation.