
In 2019, in a segment on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Denise Richards said to her best friend Patrick Muldoon: "My ex-husband’s aged me terribly, I think."
That ex-husband, of course, is Charlie Sheen.
In the segment, Richards recalled an unusual Thanksgiving dinner she shared with Sheen and a sex worker he brought along to the occasion.
"Charlie came over for Thanksgiving for dinner a few years ago, and he had a hooker in the car in the driveway," she said. "He was afraid to tell me. 'Uh, you know, well, she's in the driveway. Is it OK if she's in the driveway?' I said, 'Ugh, I'll set a f**king plate'."
At the time of the admission and its worldwide broadcast, Sheen was reportedly furious Richards brought it up.
The story is ultimately one small example of the tumultuous relationship that Sheen and Richards have shared over the years.
Now, Richards has opened up again about the current state of their relationship.
Sheen reunited with Richards and their youngest daughter Lola during Tuesday's episode of Denise Richards & Her Wild Things.
"The girls have been through a lot with their dad," Richards said in a confessional. "It has been up and down."
"I wish Charlie and I would get together more," she noted. "It's important for our daughters to see that we can get along and they need us."
Richards also spoke about the pair's "friendly" but not quite "friendship" relationship on a podcast this week. But we'll get to that shortly.