Denise Richards was pressured to inform her daughters Sami, 21, and Lola, 19, that their father, Charlie Sheen, is HIV constructive after he unexpectedly made the reveal on the “At the moment” present in 2015.
“It was in all places,” Richards, 54, instructed host Jana Kramer on Monday’s episode of the “Whine Down” podcast.
“I believe I picked them up early from college that day as a result of I didn’t need children at college to inform them.”
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Richards added she was “sort of upset with Charlie” as a result of he “didn’t warn” her beforehand.
“I want he gave me a heads up, like, ‘Hey, I’m doing it right now,’” she recalled.
The “Starship Troopers” actress additional admitted it was “onerous to clarify” to her daughters what their well-known dad’s medical analysis meant. Nonetheless, it was the one time she ever needed to share such critical info with them.
General, the “RHOBH” character has tried to guard her ladies from Sheen’s public scandals.
“There’s been a couple of issues that I’ve needed to have conversations with [them], however for essentially the most half, I actually tried to shelter them from plenty of stuff,” she stated.
Richards and the “Spin Metropolis” actor, 59, tied the knot in June 2002 and parted methods in 2006.
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Richards stated their tumultuous relationship, the dynamics of which frequently play out in public, isn’t all the time as rosy as she’d prefer it to be.
“I’m pleasant with Charlie,” she stated.
“I want we have been associates and that we might discuss on a regular basis and have the ability to be there actually for one another with our ladies. But it surely’s simply not the connection we’ve got.”
Sheen agreed in a 2023 interview that whereas their co-parenting relationship stops in need of being overly acquainted, the previous couple is “completely pleasant.”
“We went by means of a lot s–t collectively that I don’t suppose both of us has any power left to be divisive,” he instructed Individuals on the time.
The brunette magnificence, who at the moment stars in Bravo’s “Denise Richards & Her Wild Issues,” lately shared that her ex-husband had an inclination towards jealousy.
In the course of the March 26 episode of the truth present, she defined that she “didn’t communicate to” ex-boyfriend Patrick Muldoon, with whom she has loved a decades-long friendship, throughout her marriage to Sheen.
“It was onerous as a result of I didn’t wish to lose him as a ‘pal’ pal. However, in the direction of the top of the wedding, I talked to him on a regular basis about him,” she stated, explaining that Sheen had a “onerous time” together with her friendship with the “Melrose Place” actor.
Sheen went on to marry Brooke Mueller in 2008, however they parted methods three years later. Richards tied the knot with husband Aaron Phypers in 2018.
