Denise Richards is sharing her aspect of the story after estranged husband Aaron Phypers filed for divorce.
Posting a video via her Instagram on Thursday, August 21, Richards, 54, admitted her summer time had been “sh***y” within the wake of her break up from Phypers, 52, and described her divorce as a “very tough time.”
Within the clip, Richards first joked that her summer time had been “fantastic,” earlier than candidly sharing, “It's really been sh***y, however I'm gonna fake prefer it's all good. I've really been posting on Instagram like nothing's occurring in my life, and I can't do this anymore, as a result of there's one thing clearly occurring.”
She went on to thank her followers for all their help and for sending her effectively needs throughout the emotional time.
“I simply needed to, in all seriousness, say that this has been a … very, very, very tough time. It's so laborious to undergo a divorce,” she mentioned. “Lots of you could have gone by means of that. This isn't my first one, second one, and I by no means thought I'd get divorced once more. This is the reason I at all times say by no means, say by no means. However I actually simply needed to say thanks a lot for your whole supportive, sort, considerate, encouraging messages, as a result of this has been a really tough time, and there's circumstances round my divorce which are tough to speak about.”
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Richards added that she plans to at some point open up extra about her marriage breakdown, however is prioritizing “processing” the divorce first.
Phypers filed for divorce from Richards on July 7, after six years of marriage. In courtroom paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, he listed the pair's date of separation as July 4 and cited irreconcilable variations as the rationale for his or her break up.
Whereas Phypers famous that he and Richards would not have any minor youngsters, he did checklist her youngest daughter, Eloise, as his stepchild within the courtroom docs. (Richards can also be mother of daughters Sami and Lola, whom she welcomed with ex-husband Charlie Sheen in 2004 and 2005, respectively.)
Us Weekly reached out to Richards and Phypers for remark on the time.
Weeks later, Richards filed for a restraining order towards Phypers and claimed that he was bodily abusive all through their six-year marriage.
She claimed in courtroom paperwork: “All through our relationship, Aaron would ceaselessly violently choke me, violently squeeze my head with each arms, tightly squeeze my arms, violently slap me in my face and head, aggressively slam my head into the lavatory towel rack, threaten to kill me, maintain me down together with his knee on my again to the purpose the place I must plead with him to get off me in order that he wouldn't kill me and hack into my laptop computer and telephone and obtain all of my textual content messages.”
The Bravo star additional claimed that Phypers “repeatedly threatened” bodily violence and “brought about” her to have three concussions.
“Aaron repeatedly received inside two inches of my face and screamed at me degrading profanities, together with calling me a ‘c*** whore' and a ‘piece of s***,'” Richards alleged in her movement, accusing Phypers of repeated abuse all through the course of their marriage.
Phypers denied Richards' accusations, telling Us in an announcement that her claims have been “conjured up” and that he has “the true proof.”
Denise Richards' estranged husband, Aaron Phypers, denied her claims of abuse shortly after the Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills alum was granted a short lived restraining order towards him. When contacted by Us Weekly about Richards' allegations that he received bodily along with her all through their marriage, Phypers, 52, claimed, “Not true. Conjured up. I've the […]
Richards and Phypers tied the knot in September 2018. In an episode of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills the next yr, she opened up about how the pair first crossed paths.
“So, I met him at his middle doing DNA restore, anti-aging and that kind of factor,” she defined in 2019. “Then, one time we had intercourse in one in every of his rooms. We've been inseparable ever since.”
Later that yr, Richards revealed her first impression of Phypers throughout a March 2019 episode of the Bravo present. “I assumed he was cute and I needed to f*** him,” she recalled. “I simply needed to have intercourse with him.”
The Denise Richards & Her Wild Issues star has been candid about her romance with Phypers by means of the years. In 2020, she shared how the twosome stored their love alive.
“There's so much we will do ourselves, however I can't do every little thing alone and really it makes me a greater mother or father having the assistance,” she mentioned on The Rachel Hollis Present on the time. “In regular circumstances, my husband and I, we take one weekend a month, we go to a lodge, the place it's simply us.”
Years later, Richards gushed that she liked to be married. “I really like my husband. I do know not everybody does,” she completely advised Us in 2024. “I don't perceive them. However we like one another, and love being with one another.”
Richards famous that she and Phypers have been “greatest buddies,” including, “I say this to different {couples} with youngsters, I at all times say it's important to have time for your self. Don't really feel responsible. If this ain't working, it begins on the prime and s*** rolls down. If [your marriage] stays robust, your loved ones is undamaged. Have a staycation along with your husband or spouse. Simply hold your connection.”
