Denise Richards: It’s Not So Complicated
Worst Bond Girl Denise Richards has a new reality show to promote, and let me tell you something, E! is getting their money’s worth outta her. Between she and fellow mom-pimp Dina Lohan, they’re getting the most publicity they’ve had since the ANS show was taken off.
Denise is making the talk show rounds and has appeared on several this week, but the one that interests me the most is the interview she did with the Today show’s Matt Lauer. Supposedly on the morning chatfest to promote her new show, she once again took the opportunity to take several swipes at ex Charlie Sheen, which thus far seems to be her modus operandi:
Denise Richards insisted Wednesday she never asked for her ex-husband Charlie Sheen’s sperm, despite a document released exclusively to NBC News by Sheen containing a purported e-mail that Sheen claims proves she asked him in April 2007 to father a third child via artificial insemination.
“The e-mail’s not legitimate. It’s a doctored e-mail,” Richards told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Wednesday. She said that the message, which Sheen says Richards wrote to his current fiancée, Brooke Mueller, represents another attempt by the actor to discredit her.
Oh, Denise, about that show you’re doing?
Richards told Lauer that the document is simply not true. At the time, she said, she was caring for her mother, Joni, who had terminal cancer that would take her life in December 2007. The actress was also raising the two young girls she had by Sheen. The last thing she wanted was another baby.
“I was taking care of my dying mom. That’s what the public doesn’t understand,” Richards said. “I was raising my little girls. They’re young; they need me. My mother was the closest person to me. She was dying.”
Richards said that if she had wanted another child, she wouldn’t have asked for Sheen’s sperm, noting she was dating Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora at the time. “If I wanted anybody’s sperm, I would have asked for Richie’s,” she told Lauer.
Uh, yeah, but don’t you have a new television show to promote?
She said that the perception that she made [many] accusations [against Sheen] publicly is wrong. She made the statements in court filings that she had hoped would remain private, she said.
“The one thing I will clear up a lot of people don’t understand — I filed a declaration with the court. I never went on different shows and blasted my husband and aired our dirty laundry,” she said. “This is a private, embarrassing, personal matter.”
Hmm, yeah…private and personal. Gotcha. E!, show, ringing any bells?
Richards told Lauer that even that battle has been misrepresented by Sheen. She said that initially, he agreed to allow her to have Sam and Lola on the reality show, but in return for his consent, he asked for increased custody of the children.
“Charlie wanted me to agree to custody changes in our situation,” she said, addressing the issue for the first time. “I didn’t want to change the custody arrangement.”
Okay, never mind.














