Denise Richards Tries to Cancel Father's Day
According to Denise Richards, Charlie Sheen needs less time with his kids and more time to work on his issues.
A year after a restraining order against the Two and a Half Men star was lifted, his ex-wife's camp was back in court Wednesday to request an order of protection against Sheen to prevent him from having overnight visits with their two daughters, three-year-old Sam and two-year-old Lola.
The girls often return from their father's home "sad and upset," states the filing, in which Richards also alleges that Sheen might not understand how his "inappropriate behavior" on the Internet could affect the "child-rearing of two young daughters."
According to the Wild Things actress, Sheen's Internet behavior involves "attraction to underage women" and "sexual explicitness including revealing his private parts."
"She believes that Charlie has significant personal issues which he has failed to address and which require her to take action to protect her children," Richards' attorney, Neal Hersh, said after filing the document in Los Angeles Superior Court.
"This is not a vindictive action," Hersh said. "Any responsible parent in Denise's shoes would go to the ends of the earth to protect her children."
Sheen, who is only allowed supervised visits with his kids, immediately fired back over what he perceives to be Richards' persistent interference.
"Clearly the mother of my children has no interest in responsible coparenting when it comes to my relationship with our girls," the actor said in a statement released to E! News.
"She behaves as though she owns our children. She does not. A day of legal reckoning for her is fast approaching. The truth will prevail. It always does."
Sheen filed court documents last month seeking to amend the terms of their custody arrangement, which as it stands, requires that he be accompanied by two of Richards' nannies whenever he visits with Sam and Lola.
He also is seeking more frequent visits with the girls and has asked that Richards be barred from calling his home when the children are with him, except in the event of an emergency.
Sheen would also like to be able to hire his own nannies and not rely on Richards' employees, as the court has ordered for now.
A declaration from one of these nannies, Diana Alvarez, was included in Richards' filing. In it, Alvarez claims to have witnessed Sheen hitting one of the family dogs and that Sam told Alvarez that her dad had threatened to hit her. Meanwhile, he "completely ignores" his younger daughter, Lola, the childcare provider states.
"Virtually all of these allegations were previously raised and were denied by Mr. Sheen," his attorney, Lance Spiegel, said Wednesday in response to Richards' filing.
"The parties have been operating under an existing custody agreement for more than a year, and during that period of time, there was no attempt to resurrect any of these allegations until Mr. Sheen requested the right to select his own childcare provider."
The Emmy-nominated actor was allowed to make at least one important choice with regard to family recently. He got engaged to real-estate investor Brooke Mueller in July, about eight months after a judge signed off on his divorce.
Richards attacked this recent development as well, stating in her filing that Sheen popped the question "for the press...He wanted to get the cover of People and Us magazine."
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