RICHARDS OPENS UP ABOUT SHEEN’S NASTY SIDE
CHARLIE SHEEN’s ex-wife DENISE RICHARDS has opened up about her former hu= sband’s abusive nature, reluctantly telling talk show host OPRAH WINFREY = that the bad boy was occasionally a bad man during their marriage.
The former Bond girl agreed to appear on Winfrey’s show on Tuesday (26J= an10) to discuss Sheen’s Christmas Day (25Dec09) arrest in Colorado - aft= er police were called to his family retreat to investigate a fight betwee= n the actor and his current wife, Brooke Mueller.
Richards told the talk show host that Sheen had called her from jail to= wish her and the couple’s daughters a Merry Christmas, and briefly expla= ined what had happened.
She recalled, "He said, ‘I didn’t want the day to go by without saying = Merry Christmas to the girls,’ which I thought was really nice… I said,= ‘Come and say Merry Christmas to dad,’ and they were like, ‘We’ll call h= im later…’ I said, ‘Actually, dad doesn’t have much time; he’s going ou= t to eat.’" But the TV chat quickly turned tense when Winfrey asked her guest if Sh= een had been abusive during their four-year marriage, which ended in a me= ssy divorce.
The actress, who alleged her ex had threatened her in divorce papers, t= ook a deep breath and told the host, "I can’t lie… I can’t sit here and= say, ‘No, he didn’t (threaten me)’ and then I had documents that stated = that (he was).
"There were times during the marriage where there was a lot of verbal a= buse. He never hit me… A lot of verbal arguments got extremely heated; = that scared me.
"I did have a restraining order (against him) and it was because of tha= t." Asked if she was afraid of repercussions from Sheen after her appearanc= e on the Oprah show, she said, "I told him I was here… I told him I was= going to be honest about some things. I’m sure he wants me to not be too= honest about stuff.
"I think there’s a history (of abusive behaviour)… I think that Charl= ie has a very sharp tongue… He knew my insecurities and played on that.= " Richards revealed she "loved" her ex, but insisted she no longer had st= rong feelings for the actor, adding, "The person that I know isn’t the pe= rson that I married. I will always care for him because he’s my daughters= ‘ father."
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