LOS ANGELES — The tension between ex-spouses Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards reached another boiling point this week when a three-year-old voicemail of the “Two and a Half Men” star using the N-word against Richards emerged.
“I deeply apologize by my choice of words to all I have obviously offended; especially to Tony Todd, an African-American, who was my best man at my first two weddings,” Sheen said in a statement on Wednesday.
“And for the record, my children did not show up today for a custodial visit without explanation. So three and one-half years later, the reasons that caused the anger and frustration displayed on that voicemail continue to be manifested on a daily basis.”
Ever since their split in 2005, Sheen and Richards have been squabbling over the custody rights regarding their two children, Lola and Sam. The case became particularly sour earlier this year when Sheen unsuccessfully turned to the courts in an attempt to stop their children from appearing on Denise’s new reality show, which he called an act of “exploitation.”
Richards defends her decision to feature their kids on the E! program, called “Denise Richards: It’s Complicated.”
“I want people to see the show and all that stuff about me exploiting my children will be put to rest,” she told Pop Tarts. “The reality is that I’m a single mom to two very young girls and I think that I would be manipulating the show if I didn’t have them in it at all. If at any point my daughters said, ‘I don’t like these people around’ or ‘Why are they filming us?’ it would be done.”
Sheen recently re-married, but Richards remains loverless — and for a good reason. How many men out there are ready to run right into a relationship without as much as a date?
“I would much rather skip the whole dating process and be in a relationship. That’s probably why I’m still single,” the 37-year-old starlet said, adding that she’s very uncomfortable and suffers from extreme nervousness at the mere thought of dating.
But while the “Drop Dead Gorgeous” glamour girl professes to be perfectly “happy being single,” she wouldn’t mind a special somebody who is just a “good guy and a good dad.”
Speaking of good guys, Richards also refuted her reputation that she has a thing only for bad boys.
“Everyone makes a point of saying that I like bad boys, and in my defense, Charlie was a reformed bad boy and Richie [Sambora] is not a bad boy,” she said. “He’s actually an amazing guy and a great dad.”
Richards briefly dated the Bon Jovi guitarist after splitting from Sheen.
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