{"id":636,"date":"2025-03-11T15:43:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosperitywithory.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2025-05-13T02:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T02:07:10","slug":"denise-richards-family-life-no-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosperitywithory.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/denise-richards-family-life-no-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Denise Richards&#8217; Family Life, No Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy81Njc0ODYxMS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc1MDE3MjAzMH0.uEi3vusI8SBwZQcPxUcOvPDM0ntbAtzzwsggPOtqcM4\/img.jpg?width=3000&amp;height=4500&amp;coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0\"><\/p>\n<p>Denise Richards\u2019 daughters, Sami and Lola Sheen, are fighting about something or other. Sami tells Lola, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t speak to you like this if you weren\u2019t such a bitch, dude.\u201d Richards, same as ever, interrupts the argument to remind them both, \u201cDon\u2019t call her \u2018dude,\u2019 she\u2019s your sister.\u201d The hilarious conversation, clipped from her new show <em><em>Denise Richards and Her Wild Things<\/em><\/em>, is a reminder that all families are the same. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard not to fall in love at first sight with Richards, whether you first met the iconic actress in <em><em>Starship Troopers<\/em><\/em> or<em><em> Drop Dead Gorgeous<\/em><\/em> or her first brush with reality TV, <em><em>It\u2019s Complicated<\/em><\/em>, or even in the tabloids and on Bravo with <em><em>The Real Housewives<\/em><\/em> more recently. Her singular personality has endeared audiences to her for 30 years and counting, and my god, did we miss her on our favorite channel.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode lazyload\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"a66428c9fa5f606969827f012d8a8657\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"e4eab\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/prosperitywithory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img-64.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Richards\u2019 new show, centered on her family and friends&#8217; lives in Malibu, has dropped on Bravo. Ahead of its premiere, <em>PAPER<\/em> sat down with Richards to talk about life after <em>Real Housewives<\/em>, that first go-around with the reality TV cameras amid her divorce from Charlie Sheen, and what it\u2019s been like watching her daughters discover her movies.<\/p>\n<p>Considering her work in reality TV and the aforementioned films, it\u2019s surprising how largely unfazed she seems to be by the chaos of a decades-long entertainment career. Our conversation is peppered with the frequent \u201cOh my gosh,\u201d alongside various asides on motherhood and watching her children grow up, and the normalcy of family life and fame.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full and fabulous conversation, below. <em>Denise Richards and Her Wild Things<\/em> airs Tuesdays at 9 PM ET\/PT on Bravo.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"26ac55ef543b2e8f9eb3a1d2cbb2eedb\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SNEAK PEEK: Your First Look at Denise Richards &amp; Her Wild Things Premiere | DRAHWT (S1 E1) | Bravo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c614MuJphJs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Were you nervous at all going back to the personal reality television format, or were you excited to get back into the fray?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was actually excited. Alex Baskin approached me after <em><em>Real Housewives<\/em><\/em> and asked if I wanted to do a family docu-series, and I really just wanted to make sure that the girls were all on board. Eloise loved seeing herself on camera. She gave a thumbs up and was excited. Sami was very excited. She, over the years, has always said, \u201cWe need another family reality show, because it&#8217;s always crazy.\u201d Lola, she at first wasn&#8217;t sure, but then she decided, \u201cYou know what, I am going too. I really do want to do this.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>And my biggest thing was, I told the whole family, \u201cWe never set up, or we&#8217;re not going to talk about this or that.\u201d I wanted everyone to be themselves. And I think the girls, one of the things that people will be able to relate to with them, is that you can tell they are themselves. They don&#8217;t have a filter. And even though our family is very public, I as a mom, have a lot of issues and concerns that many parents do, trying to navigate teenagers, trying to let go, letting them grow up and be their own adults, having to navigate sibling rivalry. Those are all things that parents can relate to, and also having a special needs daughter. Many people have special needs children, or have someone in their family, and I\u2019m glad that Eloise wanted to be on the show too.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>With your daughters specifically, there is so much that has been public about your life and that you\u2019ve made public. You talk about how open of a book you are, but is that something you\u2019ve always been like? Or has that developed out of necessity being in the public eye?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think when I first started my career, I was much more private and more guarded with interviews and trying to protect my privacy, but it was also a very different time. Then going through a very public divorce, and being misunderstood and having different things written, I figured, well, there&#8217;s nothing you can do at this point. When I did my reality show, <em><em>It&#8217;s Complicated<\/em><\/em>, it was a very difficult time in my life, going through a divorce. I just lost my mom and I was going through the divorce, it was so public. I had a hard time actually getting acting jobs, because a lot of people in the industry thought I was trying to take down a huge TV actor, and I was very misunderstood with a lot of stuff, and it wasn&#8217;t easy. <\/p>\n<p>My mom always said \u201cthis too shall pass,\u201d and she was right. So it&#8217;s hard to not be public when stuff is so public. And that&#8217;s why I made the decision, even going on <em><em>Real Housewives<\/em><\/em>, I thought it would be fun, and I did have fun. I did enjoy it. There were times it was challenging, but overall, I was glad that I did the show and this just seems like the right time for us to do our family reality show after being asked to do one.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode lazyload\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"8fc47c61dda911e28a567c50495d489d\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"d306e\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/prosperitywithory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img-65.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking back at your first brush with reality TV to now, did you ever think you would see yourself at that point doing this again?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know what? My girls were so little then, that it was hard to imagine them being now 19 and 20 years old. I can&#8217;t believe Sam is turning 21, I can&#8217;t believe I have a 21-year-old daughter. And back then I didn&#8217;t have Eloise and I wasn&#8217;t remarried. I&#8217;m also the type of person that likes to stay in the present and focus on that. Gosh, some of the things, even when I did <em><em>Playboy<\/em><\/em>, Sami was five months old. I didn&#8217;t think, <em><em>One day when she&#8217;s a teenager, boys might say something<\/em><\/em>. You don&#8217;t imagine your kids even getting that old. I don&#8217;t know why, it seems so far away. So I didn&#8217;t think about it back then. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sami has an OnlyFans now, as do you. With being so famous and public, you have to have conversations with your daughters most people might not have to have. Do you find it&#8217;s difficult or challenging to talk about boundaries, just as a mom with your kids, when there&#8217;s this added element of fame and a spotlight on your family?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The girls, this is all they know. They&#8217;ve grown up with paparazzi being around. They&#8217;ve grown up with things in the tabloids. This is their normal. And with OnlyFans, well, with a lot of my jobs, I tell them, \u201cThat\u2019s my job.\u201d And then mom at home, I&#8217;m different, and I believe my girls are pretty good about separating it, they just see me as mom. For the longest time, they didn&#8217;t even know what I did for a living. They haven&#8217;t seen any of my movies. They don&#8217;t even know half of what I&#8217;ve done.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of your movies, it&#8217;s funny to think of them having never seen <\/strong><em><strong><em>Drop Dead Gorgeous<\/em><\/strong><\/em><strong>. I mean, that&#8217;s one of my favorite movies of all time. They should see that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, Sami saw it a month ago on the airplane and sent me a photo, and Lola, that&#8217;s the only thing Lola&#8217;s ever seen of mine when she was 10. Otherwise, they didn&#8217;t even know most of what I&#8217;ve done, except Sami says her TikTok will show like a little clip. Like, \u201cI didn&#8217;t know you were on <em><em>Friends<\/em><\/em>,\u201d because she started watching <em><em>Friends<\/em><\/em> a couple years ago, and she was excited to see I was on it. So they don&#8217;t even ask, but they also grew up going to sets. Obviously not the movies before they were born, but they have gone to sets many times with me and when I&#8217;m on location. Now that they&#8217;re older, I can go away longer and I just say, \u201cI&#8217;m going to set.\u201d They don&#8217;t ask me, \u201cOh, what are you doing?\u201d They&#8217;ll see something and they&#8217;re like, \u201cI didn&#8217;t know you did that? I go, \u201cYeah, that&#8217;s where I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you been aware at all of a renewed interest via TikTok and social media of movies you&#8217;ve been in, like <\/strong><em><strong><em>Starship Troopers<\/em><\/strong><\/em><strong> or <\/strong><em><strong><em>Drop Dead Gorgeous<\/em><\/strong><\/em><strong>, because younger generations are going back and discovering them? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It actually really touches me. I feel so humbled to be in some movies that other generations are discovering and enjoying. I recently started doing some ComicCons and I love going. It&#8217;s so fun for me to meet fans. Without fans, I wouldn&#8217;t have a job, so it\u2019s nice to connect. They bring stuff that I&#8217;ve never seen before for me to sign. Seeing younger people discover things, I feel very blessed and I&#8217;m very grateful.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode lazyload\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"d9a2ab20282ef181b409c09eb0609a0d\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"e2a86\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/prosperitywithory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img-66.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you ever do a<\/strong><em><strong><em> Starship Troopers 2<\/em><\/strong><\/em><strong>, if the opportunity came around with reboot culture?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh my gosh, with us old people? Sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You mentioned Comic Con, there\u2019s clearly an audience for it. People would be hungry for it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We could just sit down and let the other guys do all the action stuff. But I love that most of us are still really close friends, and we have talked about it. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Please, I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a streaming service somewhere. I was actually watching <\/strong><em><strong><em>Nowhere<\/em><\/strong><\/em><strong> recently, the Gregg Araki movie, and went, \u201cOh my god, that\u2019s Denise Richards.\u201d You popped up in a scene. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh that\u2019s so funny, I still haven\u2019t seen that one yet. <\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>You talked about your daughters, especially Eloise. It was really special on <\/strong><em><strong><em>Real Housewives<\/em><\/strong><\/em><strong> to see her journey being adopted by Aaron. How have they been doing since we last saw them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s got such a close relationship with her. He adores her, she adores him. They have a great connection, and that&#8217;s her dad and it&#8217;s amazing. What she has was very difficult to diagnose and it&#8217;s been a challenging journey at times. But she&#8217;s an angel, and she is the voice of reason for the girls too. Even though she&#8217;s primarily non-verbal, we understand her. She says some words and she just laughs at the girls when they&#8217;re fighting. She thinks it&#8217;s crazy, and the girls have a really close relationship with her too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much of your daughters\u2019 relationship do we see on the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We show all parts of our family. I love that we are able to and I love how close they are, and you definitely will see Eloise quite a bit.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode lazyload\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"dc7d39abea3183a83084d6af900a32d7\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"db3cc\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/prosperitywithory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img-67.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>You have some cameos in the show from some familiar faces to the Bravo audiences, like Camille, Kathy, Garcelle and Sutton. How many of them did you know prior to joining the Bravo universe, so to speak, and how many of them were newer friends?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kathy is a newer friend since joining Bravo. Garcelle, I knew her for years. Camille, I&#8217;ve known for years. Sutton is a newer friend that I met on that show, and that&#8217;s one of the things I love about doing <em>Real Housewives<\/em>, is forming these friendships, not only with just this particular one, Beverly Hills, but I&#8217;ve become friends with some housewives in other cities too. So it&#8217;s nice. The show is about our life and Camille is a dear friend of mine, so it was fun to film with her. Tori Spelling and I&#8217;ve been friends for years, so I did her podcast and we filmed with her. Those are my friends in real life, and they&#8217;re familiar faces and I think it&#8217;s fun for people to see that.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>The environment of <\/strong><em><strong><em>Real Housewives<\/em><\/strong><\/em><strong> can be so tense at times. Did you feel like the pressure was off in this environment, getting to hang out with your friends and not have the expectation that sometimes comes with some other franchises on the network?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of arguing on the <em><em>Real Housewives<\/em><\/em>, but they&#8217;re silly arguments. There is also a lot of showing the women being silly and having fun. I love that it also allows for the housewives to do that, and be women and silly with each other and have a good time. And on [<em><em>Denise Richards and Her Wild Things<\/em><\/em>], it&#8217;s a different kind of thing. I&#8217;m dealing with arguing with my kids. There were times, trust me, I was like, oh, gosh, I wish I was at a table with what Aaron called, um, I think, \u201cthe fighting ladies.\u201d Something like that. There were times, trust me, I was like, oh gosh, dealing with my kids fighting, it might be easier dealing with the women, because it&#8217;s silly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the trailer, it looks like you join Erika Jayne for lunch and you seem to have a reaction seeing her. Is there anything you can tease about that conversation for viewers who are eager to see how it plays out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve really had a great connection with Erika. The first season, we got along right away. Second season for me didn&#8217;t even start great, went sideways quickly and I felt like there were some unresolved stuff between us. And I&#8217;m really glad that we got together. That\u2019s all I\u2019ll tease.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode lazyload\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"ec09aec9219b160b3df8af0e566bf8eb\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"87560\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy81Njc0OTcxOS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc1NjE2OTUwMn0.HVbp15owMXOSwaagZFhgRoymzpV85birqzrD0Umhi0g\/img.jpg?width=980\"><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s hard to not be public when stuff is so public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos courtesy of Bronson Farr\/Bravo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denise Richards\u2019 daughters, Sami and Lola Sheen, are fighting about something or other. 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