Denise Richards: My kids will probably be in therapy before they’re 5
by Katherine, CBB Contributor:
Actress Denise Richards, 36, has been somewhat low-key about talking about the controversy that has been surrounding her the past year, but she recently gave an interview to OK! Magazine, where she clears up some rumors about her and how she is coping as a single mom to Sam, 3, and Lola Rose, 23 months, her children with ex-husband, Charlie Sheen.
Denise feels it’s OK for her daughters to see her sad. Sam walked in and saw me crying about my mom and she wiped my tear and gave me a kiss. Then I thought, ‘You know what? This is life. Mommy sometimes gets sad.’
On how her daughters are adapting to having two homes: I’m doing my best to let my daughters know that Mom and Dad don’t live together. They’ll probably be in therapy before they’re 5.
On her girls’ personalities: Lola looks verymuch like my mother. Sam is a combination of me and Charlie. There aretimes that she’s got little facial expressions that Charlie and I have.Lola came out laughing and giggling. She’s a little more outgoing.Sam’s a little shy at first. They’re both fun. They’re so animated andthey’re getting to be a great age.
On motherhood: I love being a mom. I have two beautiful, healthy girls. I’m really lucky.
On pastimes with the girls: My girls are so much fun. I love dressing them up. We sit by the pool and get manicures and pedicures together…we’ll go in the pool or play with the dogs in the backyard.
Dangers of experimental makeup: My girls do the worst makeup on themselves. They look like Alice Cooper!
Source: OK! Magazine, May 21, 2007 issue, pages 44-47
Click below for more, including why Denise is crying — her mom’s incurable cancer.
Denise recently found out that her mom has a renal cell cancer,which is a rare form of kidney cancer. This is why Denise decided tosell her house in Hidden Hills, CA, and has since been spotted house hunting these past few months. Mymom is being treated in L.A., so my parents are moving up here from SanDiego to live with me. I want to have a big enough house where theyhave their own space. She’s going through treatment and I want them tobe comfortable.
Denise would do anything for her mom because she helped Denise get through her own rough times. Theyhave done so much for me and my daughters. Her cancer’s incurable, butshe’s very strong. My mom’s the rock of our family. I would not havesurvived my divorce and a lot of other things without her.
On whether Sam and Lola know their Grandma is sick: They know she’s sick because she doesn’t have any hair and she can’t pick up my daughters up, but they don’t know what it is.
Looking back, Denise says she learned a lot from her marriage with Charlie. Ireally fell in love with Charlie the man, not the bad boy. I had adesire to stay married to him forever. It was just our dynamic didn’twork. I learned a lot from my marriage. I would love to be a wife andhave more kids. I still believe in marriage and I want to get marriedagain.
Tags: cancer, Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Lola Sheen, Sam Sheen
- Posted on May 11, 07 at 10:10PM
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May 11th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
That’s such a cute interview!
May 12th, 2007 at 9:57 am
i’m sorry for denise’s mom.
Sam and Lola look like angels, they’re the cutest, They’re a perfect mix of charlie and denise. I hope charlie spend some time with them.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am
My husbands grandma has renal cell cancer and has had it for almost 15 years. She lost one of her kidneys when my husband was a kid, and then the cancer was gone for awhile. Now it is back and she has tumors on all of her organs, mostly her lungs.
She is 83 years old, and the past 2 years have been miserable for her, she’s on her way out.
I wish the best for Denise and her mom, this is an awful thing to see happen to someone you love.
I also think thay Lola looks a LOT like Denise’s mom, Joni. (That is her name, right? I’m almost positive, because that’s my moms name, too.)
May 12th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
I wish her all the best with her mother. But it seems she’s coping fairly well. And the photos of her and the girls are sweet. :0
May 12th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Her children are so beautiful. Sam looks just like her dad. And Lola is growing so fast, honestly it seems like yesterday that my US Magazine announced that pregnant Denise was leaving Charlie. Now Lola is almost 2! She’s gorgeous, so tan with that baby blonde hair!
May 15th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Hi,
here’s wishing Denise’s Mom well – I had The Challenge of kidney cancer and then a radical nephrectomy 5/11/2001 so there is every hope of a good outcome for her.
Do visit: www,JamesWhaleFund.org/Forum for any support or questions on YThe Challenges of kidney cancer where we are trying to RAISE AWARENESS OF KIDNEY CANCER for the 1,000s of people like Denise’s Mom diagnosed and faced with The Challenge each year.
I do hope someone will keep us updated of Denise’s Mom’s progress at:
http://www.jameswhalefund.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2885#2885
Good luck – or since it is all just acting ‘Break a leg’.
Regards,
Greg L-W.