Denise Richards has opened up about her relationship with ex-husband Charlie Sheen. 

The actress, who was promoting her show Denise Richards & Her Wild Things on the Whine Down with Jenna Kramer podcast shared the two former spouses do not communicate much.

The former couple, who were married from 2002 to 2006, had their own ideas about how to bring up their girls, Sami, 21, and Lola, 19.

‘Truthfully, it wasn’t co-parenting,’ the 54-year-old actress explained to the One Tree Hill alum. ‘I parent my way. He parents his way, and there was no co-parenting.’

Struggling to describe the dynamic with the Two and a Half Men star, 59, she said, ‘I have kids with him, and I’m not really — I’m friendly with Charlie, but I wish we were friends,’ she said.

The Paper Empire star revealed she also wished ‘that we could talk all the time and be able to be there really for each other with our girls. But that’s just not the relationship we have.’

Denise Richards, 54, has opened up about how she and ex Charlie Sheen, 59 have brought up their two children. ‘I parent my way. He parents his way, and there was no co-parenting,’ she said

‘Maybe one day. But, I mean right now, there’s nothing. There’s no discord between he and I, which is great.’

‘I was always an advocate of wanting everything to be great and be friends and blend the family because he had two boys with his wife after me,’ The Bold and The Beautiful star maintained, adding, ‘I just didn’t want the girls to feel like they had to choose sides.’

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Richards is also mom to 13-year-old Eloise, whom she adopted.  

When the girls were little, Richards said she put up a good front for her children, in spite of their father’s struggle with drugs and the law, including charges of domestic ᴀssault. ‘I never talked bad about him in front of the kids, and that’s hard to do — to hold your tongue and not say certain things at times,’ the World Is Not Enough actress said.

‘I don’t know if I did a disservice to them with that as well because now that they’re older, they’re discovering things that they didn’t know.’

The Bookie actor revealed in 2015 that he had been diagnosed with HIV several years before, but thanks to retroviral drugs, the virus is undetectable. 

The Mad Families star has been sober since 2017, revealing that being too drunk to drive one of his daughters to an appointment was the final straw for him. 

Sheen credits that decision with making him a better father to all of his children.

The famous pair were married from 2002-2006;  Pictured in Los Angeles in January 2004

‘I have kids with him, and I’m not really — I’m friendly with Charlie, but I wish we were friends,’ Richards said on the Whine Down with Jenna Kramer podcast while promoting their reality show Denise Richards & Her Wild Things;  Pictured in New York City in February

When the girls were little, Richards said she put up a good front for her children. . ‘I never talked bad about him in front of the kids, and that’s hard to do — to hold your tongue and not say certain things at times’;  Pictured in Los Angeles in June 2010

Richards and Sheen have mended their fences enough for Sheen to appear on the latest episode of Denise Richards and her Wild Things, which debuted Tuesday on Bravo

‘I have a very consistent lifestyle now. It’s all about single dad stuff, and raising my…  twin boys Max and Bob,’ he said of the now 16-year-olds he shares with ex Brooke Mueller to People in December 2023.  

Richards and Sheen have mended their fences enough for Sheen to appear on the latest episode of her reality show, which debuted Tuesday on Bravo.

In the episode, the exes get together for a dinner with their daughters, and Sheen gives advice to Lola about how to deal with fame.

‘Don’t read anything,’ the Emmy nominee advised. ‘Don’t read anything about it. Because if you don’t read it, it doesn’t exist.’