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Denise Richards’ Days as a Bond girl couldn’t have prepared her for the rocky road she would take to find love.
After appearing on numerous television shows in the early 1990s, Richards hit the proverbial jackpot with a role in the cult classic Starship Troopers, followed by her iconic portrayal of Kelly Van Ryan in the erotic thriller Wild Things.
While Richards established herself as one of Hollywood’s hottest stars, she also became known for her love life. Richards, 54, endured a tumultuous three-year marriage to Charlie Sheen and most recently spent hours testifying in court about the alleged abuse she suffered at the hands of her estranged husband Aaron Phypers.
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Denise Richards shot to fame as a Bond girl and then made headlines for her challenging relationship with her ex-husband Charlie Sheen. (Tommy Garcia via Getty Images)
Your role as nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough was met with both praise and criticism, but also cemented her status as a bona fide movie star.
Richards met during a guest appearance on Spin City in 2001 Charlie Sheen. She “made the first move by kissing him” and once recounted it People magazine that on the second date she “knew this was the one, but I wouldn’t tell him.”
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“I didn’t want to scare him off by saying, ‘You’re my future husband!’ and let him run for the hills,” Richards added.
The former couple tied the knot in 2002 and gave birth to daughter Sami in 2004. Richards filed for divorce while she was six months pregnant with her daughter Lola. The couple briefly tried to reconcile their marriage shortly after her birth, but ultimately decided to separate.
Denise Richards played the role of Dr. alongside Pierce Brosnan. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough. (Keith Hamshere)
Richards met Charlie Sheen in 2001 and the actors married the following year. (Jim Spellman/WireImage)
“He had been sober for about four years and was very committed to his sobriety,” Richards said on an episode of her reality show “Denise Richards & Her Wild Things.”
“I never imagined that someone who was committed could crash and fall back into it because I wasn’t really familiar with it at the time.”
Two years after filing for divorce, Richards and Sheen were deemed legally capable of marrying other people, although their divorce had not yet been finalized, according to the statement People.
Richards struggled with guilt for years over the idea that she had broken up the family, but knew it was time to separate from Sheen.
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“I said to myself, ‘Do I want my daughters to marry this man?'” Richards told Caroline Stanbury on the Divorced Not Dead podcast in 2022. “No offense to him, but I think he would accept that and understand what I’m saying, and that’s when I thought, ‘Why am I accepting this?'”
The former couple then engaged in a heated custody battle over their daughters.
Two years after filing for divorce, Richards and Sheen were deemed legal to marry other people. (Getty Images)
In 2016, Richards sued Sheen for $1.2 million over an alleged lack of financial support for her daughters. Sheen allegedly evicted Richards from a home he had provided for her and her two children.
In 2021, a court ruled that Sheen Richards must pay “zero dollars per month” in child support starting August 1, 2018. People came forward.
Richards told Stanbury that she tried to protect her children from Sheen’s publicity Fight against drug abuse.
“I harbored them a lot, and then they got to an age where ‘so-and-so said so,’ and I lied to myself and covered for him,” she said. “Now that they’re getting older, they’re more aware of more things. That’s why I say, I don’t know if I did them a disservice when they were younger.”
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Following her relationship with Sheen, Richards began dating Canadian actor Aaron Phypers in 2017 after the two met at his healing center in Malibu.
Denise Richards met Aaron Phypers at his healing center in Malibu. (Gregg DeGuire)
Richards recalled that Phypers “works with a lot of different people and a lot of different things,” she told the Daily dish in 2019. “We started talking about different things because we knew a lot of the same people and same interests.”
Following his own divorce from Desperate Housewives actress Nicollette Sheridan after a six-month marriage, Phypers proposed to Richards in 2018. They married on September 8th – two days after announcing their engagement.
“[Aaron] I really wanted to get married on September 8th because eight means infinity. We called [wedding planner] “Mindy Weiss, and she did it in less than 48 hours, and it was beautiful,” Richards said People at the time.
Phypers was in the process of adopting Richards’ daughter Eloise, whom the actress adopted in 2011, but it is unclear if the adoption ever became official. Phypers filed for divorce by Richards on July 7th. He cited irreconcilable differences and asked the “Real Housewives” star for support from his wife.
The exes were married for six years before Phypers filed for divorce in July. (Jon Kopaloff)
Richards was initially granted one interim injunction against Phypers in July over allegations of physical and emotional abuse she suffered throughout their marriage, including an alleged violent incident around the time he filed for divorce.
The “Stunningly beautiful” The actress testified in court last week that Phypers tried to destroy her reputation during the breakdown of their relationship and at one point leaked nude photos of Richards.
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“It was difficult for my daughters, especially with the nude photos,” Richards told the judge during the trial. “It’s so embarrassing and shameful for me as a mother. [My daughter] couldn’t go to church.
Janelle Ash of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
