WEBVTT - Denise Richards on Fame, Family, and Finding Herself 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.159 Hey, besties, Hello Sunshine. 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:09.799 Today on the bright Side, Denise Richards is with us. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.840 She's making her return to Bravo in her new docuseries 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.200 Denise Richards and Her Wild Things, where she's giving you 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.720 the real deal on her home, happiness and Hollywood in 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:20.400 the nineties. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.880 It's Tuesday, February twenty fifth. I'm Siman Boyce. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.759 I'm Danielle Robe and this is the bright Side from 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:32.720 Hello Sunshine. Denise Richards has been a familiar face in 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.599 Hollywood since she first burst onto the scene in the nineties. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.160 She starred in films like Starship Troopers and The World 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:40.960 Is Not Enough as a bond girl, and then of 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.760 course in Wild Things and we Can't Forget That Unforgettable 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.920 Love actually cameo. You know her as an actress, a model, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.360 and a mom, and now she's coming back to TV 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.360 with a brand new look at her life, her whole life. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:55.840 Listen. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:57.560 She would be the first to admit that she has 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.200 been through a lot, and she's done it all in 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.440 the public eye. So today we're getting the full story 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:05.320 from Denise Richards herself. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.319 Absolutely, let's bring it in. Denise, Welcome to the bright Side. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.600 Thank you for having me and we're so happy to 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:12.960 have you. 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:17.160 Okay, So your brand new reality show debuts tomorrow, and 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.160 it has been sixteen years since we followed your life 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.000 in Denise Richards. It's complicated. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.160 Has it been that long? Does it feel like it's 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:25.640 been allow? 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.000 It doesn't because and it's so funny because my older 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.800 girls they were turning three and four when we started. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.760 It's complicated and now and then I Alois wasn't even 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.479 boring yet, so to now see us, the older girls 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.839 are nineteen twenty and Alois is thirteen. But then also 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.199 I did Housewives in between, yes, which the girls weren't 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:47.240 on very much. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.160 But so how are things going to be different this 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.680 time from when we did the first reality show? 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:53.280 Yeah? 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.880 Oh gosh. Well, when the girls were so young, it 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.640 was they, you know, had to do what I told 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:01.120 them to do. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.559 Still need to do what you tell them to do. Well, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:06.560 you'd be surprised. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:11.280 It's very different because it's the dynamic of with two 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.440 teenagers and Sammy who's now twenty. It is a very 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:16.160 different dynamic. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.320 And now I'm married. I wasn't married when we. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.600 Did the first reality show, So it's blending the family 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.680 and seeing a lot of familiar faces on there. It's 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.360 a lot of fun. My girls have no filter. There 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.720 are times where I'm almost like, oh, I wish you 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:34.200 wouldn't say that, or maybe don't, but they are themselves. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:35.919 What do you hope to convey this time? 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.320 Is there something that you want to get across to 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.120 the audience that maybe challenges the perceptions that have been 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.160 out there about you, either in the tabloids or in 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:45.640 the media, anything like that. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.919 No, I've had so much stuff said over the years 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.000 about our family, about myself. This was an opportunity for 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.200 us to do a show as a family together, and 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:56.960 it was a big decision and we all talked about 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.000 it and just we are who we are. Not everyone's 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.600 going to love watching us. Some people will love watching 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:08.320 us hopefully, and we're just on this journey of raising 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.040 kids in Hollywood and them adapting to that too as adults, 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.280 and them sharing their experience and it's just, you know, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.040 our family reality show. I you know, people will take 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.680 away from it whatever they can. There have been a 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.200 lot of stuff that's been written and said, But I'm like, whatever, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.720 people won't believe in seeing whatever what they want. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.600 Do you feel desensitized to it? 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.200 Almost at this point that I feel desensitized. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.040 It's more about I used to be such a people pleaser, 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.160 and then when I went through my divorce with Charlie, 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.920 it really it was really difficult for me, and I 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.640 had to just kind of put myself on a bubble 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.920 from listening to stuff, and it really I was always 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:53.280 like cautious what I say in interviews and before my divorce, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.000 and so after I thought, you know, I'm just going 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.520 to be my true, authentic self because I want to 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.920 be me people. It was the first time I went 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.480 through even having any bad press during that time, and 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.480 so I'm just gonna be myself, and so it's more 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.800 about being me, not everyone's gonna love you. Yeah, and 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.760 don't worry about all the negative comments. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:16.800 It is what it is. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.000 I can imagine that that time, like the bad press, 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.920 must have been so shocking, because when I was thinking 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.159 about your career last night, I was like, Okay, she 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.359 moved from Illinois. You were kind of naive, like you 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.440 had no I listened to your interview with Bethany Frankel, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.400 like you said, you basically had no understanding of Hollywood 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.960 and the industry and it is a business, right and 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.480 you get here and you're very pretty, you know, and 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.560 so people take advantage. And I'm curious now that you 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.200 have three daughters that are in the industry with this 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:54.240 reality show, is there anything in particular that you really 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:55.640 want to shield them from. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.560 I've been wanting to shield them since social media started 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.760 and trying to, you know, not have them on there 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.320 at all, and they would sneak and get on anyway, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.640 and they figured out how to get their phone where 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.240 the parental control was often stuff. They're much smarter than 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:17.600 you think kids, but I wish actually my older daughters, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:22.040 they are so much more confident, more savvy than I 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.520 was at their age, and I wish I had that 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:26.839 when I was their age. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.000 Do you have any PTSD from those early years of Hollywood. 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:35.160 I wouldn't say PTSD. I think it's even through not 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:36.240 just the younger years. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:37.000 Later too. 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.479 I've had stuff happen and go on, and I think 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.359 it's more about I can compartmentalize things and move on 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:45.120 and move forward. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:46.880 It doesn't define who I am. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.239 It's just obviously there's such situations that I'm of course 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:56.120 very cautious or so I am overprotective of my daughters 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:57.880 and they even talk about it on the show. They 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.400 say it, but I it's because I know more than 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.240 they know, and I've experienced more than they have. And 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:09.159 so as any mom or dad with boys and girls 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.279 coming of age, it's really hard. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.320 What would you say is the biggest thing that you 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.480 want them to take away from your experiences? 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.719 Well, just to always follow their gut. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.960 And this is something my mom always told me, and 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.000 to listen to that guardian angel in that voice that's 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.359 telling you if something doesn't feel right to it. But 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.800 it is also such a different time than when I 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:35.880 grew up in the business. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.359 I didn't there wasn't social media. 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.960 I feel that now there's just such you're so vulnerable 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.440 even if you're not in the public and you're on 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.520 social media and you're out there. But obviously having parents 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.239 that are in the public eye and doing a show 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.359 like this, they're going to be more out there. But 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.480 just I don't think I'll ever stop worrying as their parents. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:57.800 Comes with the territory. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.280 In one of the episodes of your reality show, it's 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.479 actually the first episode, you say that your kids have 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.160 a lot of explaining to do about their parents. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:06.680 Tell me what you meant by that. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.000 Well, all I need to say, I think is their 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.240 parents are Denise Richards and Charlie. 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.680 She Okay, that's your kids. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.600 You can't clump Denise Richards and with Charlie. 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.400 She I agree with you. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.160 Thank you for saying that I did cover up a 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:28.680 lot of stuff for them, protecting them, And they now 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.480 are sometimes get angry at me that I why didn't 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:33.160 I share this? 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.120 Why didn't I say anything? Because they find out about 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:36.920 it on their area. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.360 Yeah, and but I've told them as they've gotten older, 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.520 if you ever have any questions or just come to me. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.040 But when they do discover things and they're like, why 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.120 wouldn't you say anything? Why didn't you tell us that? 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.760 What am I going to say at your age? Like 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:52.120 certain things? 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:52.840 You know? 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.680 So I said, there's no handbook for this, like I 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.720 did the best I could going through it. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.800 You were doing your best, And I mean you brought 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.800 up your ex husband, Charlie Sheen, and I remember watching 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.680 his very public downfall, and I remember feeling so much 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.640 empathy for you as a wife and a mother going 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:09.080 through that. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.640 How is he doing now? He's doing good? Yeah, yeah, no, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.679 he's doing good. He's Uh. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.040 That was the journey he had to take to go 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:24.240 through everything he did, and obviously it was so public 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.360 and it was very humiliating and embarrassing later now for 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.360 him and also for his kids. You don't sometimes I 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.760 think the kids were so young. But still I don't 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.040 think he was in the headspace of what were my 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:36.600 kids think? 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.600 But that's what addiction does to you, ack right. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.199 Yeah, I mean he's definitely in a much better place 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.440 now than he was back then, and it was difficult 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:47.319 on all the kids. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.640 Well, we can't talk about family without talking about your 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:54.640 current husband, Aaron. You've been married since twenty eighteen. How 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.920 has this marriage healed you? 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.600 Well? I think I was keelled before I got married. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.920 Otherwise I wouldn't have been in the place to get married, 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.360 and I didn't. I was never the type that had 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.280 to have a boyfriend, even when I was younger, in 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.920 my twenties and when I started dating, I was never 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:19.040 that girl. And so when after my divorce, which was 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.960 incredibly painful, and it wasn't just like the divorce was 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.679 done and over, it was we still were and art 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.200 in each other's lives because we do have kids, and 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.440 a lot of stuff actually happened after our divorce that 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.199 I was trying to help Charlie with, and especially during 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.440 the time when all that stuff was so public, and 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:44.160 so I wasn't in a place to be in a relationship. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.520 I was so consumed with taking care of our kids, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.360 and there was a period when I was helping take 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.679 care of his kids. So that's where my focus was 0:09:54.760 --> 0:10:00.000 so as time and me just you know, healing from 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.320 all of that. I think that's when I was in 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.560 a good place to attract a man like Aaron, who 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:11.120 is very opposite from my ex and in a very 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.880 different and so this is no disrespect to Charlie. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.160 He was different when we got married, but. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.079 He's been such a wonderful, you know, person and human 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.000 and husband, and he's a great step dad and a 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.160 great dad to Eloise. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.880 Does Charlie give you credit for all that? 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.199 Like hearing you just say you took care of his 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.400 kids at some point like that's you have to have 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:35.920 a lot of space in your heart for that. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.920 I think there have been a couple thank yous over 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.800 the years, but not in death, not enough. It sounds 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.000 like we didn't have that sit down conversation like Hay, 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:48.600 but that's not Charlie. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.840 I think it's actually probably hard for him too. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.040 He's not the warm and fuzzy I was always the 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:55.000 warm and fuzzy person. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.400 And I'll joke around with him more. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.240 He jokes around too, but it takes a little bit 0:10:58.240 --> 0:10:59.720 for us to get on the loosen ofp of it. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.160 He and I do, though, have a sense of humor 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.320 about yeah, because it's so bad that we have to. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.920 That's huge, having a sense of humor and marriages everything. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:10.640 We laugh at it. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.800 So but where did that come from for you? Like, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.080 if you're not doing it for thanks, which it's clear 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:16.520 you're not. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.720 I think it came from my mom. 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.680 My mom was such a great woman that she was 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.720 always so fair about everything, and a lot of my 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.600 ex boyfriends before she passed, they would still call her 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.400 for advice and she just was that woman. And so 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.839 I've learned a lot from her and from my dad. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.319 And my mom was always a big advocate of doing 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.360 things for the kids. Sometimes people would judge me so 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.400 much when I was trying to help Charlie and be there, 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.439 But it's truly I want him to be the best 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.480 version of himself for our kids and for his kids 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.920 because I have such an amazing relationship with my dad, 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.600 and I want that for all the kids. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.480 You know, do you ever have a longing for that, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.000 like to give your kids the upbringing that you had, 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:07.800 which was this very like quintessential simple Midwest upbringing and 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.360 like you guys have had a whole different life. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:15.720 When my kids were really little, right after Lola was born, 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.480 my mom, I'll never forget her saying this, she said 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:20.920 to me, you need to let. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:21.920 Go of the white pick of unds. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.400 She said that, she said that, and I was like, Okay, 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.400 she goes, it's never going to be that. It's don't 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.760 try to have it's not. You know, your kids are 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:36.560 growing up very differently, and it's okay. But I will 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:42.240 say pre pandemic. A couple years prior to that, I 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:46.320 did want to move out of California. But it's hard 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.920 with our job to move out of state. And in hindsight, 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.360 I really wish I did. I wish I raised my 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.880 kids somewhere else. You grew up in Illinois. Grew up 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.559 in Illinois, I. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.080 Was born here. I moved around all all over the place, Denise, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:06.680 But okay, don't count I'm joking. Yeah, a Miami. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.719 Miami is like where I spent my childhood. It was 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.120 actually a great place to grow up. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.680 But it's it's different here, and I always would try 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.040 to defend, Oh no, it's you know, the family you 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.040 make while you're here. But if they were younger, I 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.520 would have moved them out. But they're doing good. They 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.760 actually have a huge They have a good head on 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.040 their shoulders, much more than I did when I moved here. 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:27.800 That's awesome. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:28.640 I was so naive. 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.640 I was too, I guess I think that's why I 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:32.520 asked you that question. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.040 Moved here. I was twenty two, okay. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.120 And I think I asked you that question about like, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.160 do you have PTSD from moving here? 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:41.679 Because I have a little bit of it. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:42.360 I think you do. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.200 Yeah, I mean not in the like diagnostic sense, but 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.800 just it's different. It's so different, and I I didn't 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.880 understand people's intentions, and I like, I remember the guy 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.680 that was cutting my hair tried to sleep with me 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.560 and I called my mom crying, and I was like 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.680 even the hairdressers like has weird morals. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.960 It was just like so disorienting. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:03.160 It is different. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.600 And for me what I remember because we moved here 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.640 when I was fifteen, my dad got a job trends 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.520 or he used to work for Illinois Bell, which was 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:15.160 a long time ago, and the girls were just so mean. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:20.360 I'm sure and they are. And when we say we're 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.400 going to meet someone for dinner or lunch, we're there 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.760 five minutes early, or we don't just not show up 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.000 at all, and like, oh, I didn't know we were 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.120 still going. Well, we said we were going, Why do 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.520 we need to also confirm like five minutes before. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:35.120 Totally. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:36.800 That was the thing that was hard for me to 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.239 get used to moving to California. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.160 People I'm sure would like cancel your meetings the day out, and. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.240 You didn't know sometimes because it wasn't re re reconfirmed. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.320 So now I know we have to re reconfirm everything. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.640 We've got to take a quick break, but don't go anywhere. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:15:06.280 We'll be right back with Denise Richards. And we're back 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:11.360 with Denise Richards. Well, you also started working in Hollywood 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.360 in a very different time. I mean this was pre 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.360 me too. This was free fall of Harvey Weinstea and 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:21.520 all that stuff. Did you ever experience that dark side 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.120 of Hollywood? The stuff that came to light? I didn't 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.080 me too. Movement in what content you I've never. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:34.480 Really talked about it publicly because I made the decision 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:38.400 to not, especially when all that stuff came out with 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.800 me too, to not. I didn't want to mention names 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:47.560 because they have families and stuff, and I just didn't 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.840 want to do that to their families, which is and 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.680 some people will be angry at me for not, but 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.480 I made the choice even though I felt vulnerable and 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.880 it was a different time. But I made the choice 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.840 now being more of an adult, to not only because 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.280 of there are situations. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.960 Well, it's also it's your story and you get to 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.760 decide if and when you're ready to share it. And 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.400 that's a very you know, I don't know the details. 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.960 I've experienced some sexual assault and sexual harassment myself, and 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.400 so I have the utmost respect for anybody who has 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.480 experienced that and you don't have to share it. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.040 I think you would be hard to find a woman 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.880 in this industry who didn't experience anything at all. Correct, 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.720 you know, it's uh, I don't know. Especially when I 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.560 started out, it was just a different time, Yeah, very different. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.320 I have this written on my whiteboard at my house 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.960 and it says the universe keeps the score and so 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.560 so true. Sometimes you don't always have to be the 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.880 one right if it doesn't feel like you need to 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:53.400 ring the best. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:57.400 I think the truth comes out eventually, yes, But for me, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.600 I will eventually talk about the actual experience, but won't 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:07.640 say names. I think eventually I will my daughters know. Wow, 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:09.320 you know I've talked to them about it. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.360 Why was it important to share it with them? 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:16.359 Because they're at that age of getting into the industry 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.800 and I want them to know that because they see 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.439 me as strong, because I can be a hard ass now, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.600 but they don't know what I was like back then. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.800 But also during the year certain things and. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:34.120 Even though you're older and more wise, you still can 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.760 find yourself in different situations. But just to make them aware, 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.120 like this did happen to me. And this is why 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.399 I'm also overprotective, because sometimes they would get angry at me, 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.600 like Mom, I'm like, no, I want you to know 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.040 because these things did happen to me, and if it 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:52.480 could happen to me, it could happen to you. And 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.359 I just want you to be more aware and have 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.560 a voice and stand up for yourself. 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.680 That's really I think admirable that you said something to them. 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.720 I feel like I had to. They're women, and they're young, 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.679 they're beautiful, and they're so vulnerable. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.719 Do you feel like you're able to be open about 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.120 some of the experiences that you had with other actors 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.159 who came up alongside you during that time. Do you 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.679 feel any sense of sisterhood with some of the actresses 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:24.719 that you were in the same circles with. 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.640 Yes, that's good. Yeah, definitely. I think there's so much 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:29.480 power in that too. 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.800 There was something about the nineties. When it was good, 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:35.760 it was good. When it was bad, it was real bad. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.960 There was some bad things, but when it was good 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.359 it was good too. Yeah. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.800 Well, that's actually cool to think about because you really 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:43.320 were in You were in it in the. 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:44.400 Heyday of Valleyway. 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:44.760 Yeah. 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.360 My kids are so jealous. They're like, wish I had 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:48.960 the nineties and it's so funny. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:49.600 Totally. 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.240 I think we always have nostalgia for a simpler time 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:53.880 or what we think was a simpler time. 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.600 And the movies were so fun and different, so good. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:01.840 Yes, I have so much nineties nostalgia for the soundtracks, 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.600 all of it. Yeah, so good, characters, everything. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.239 Have you had this like sort of guiding philosophy as 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:14.920 you've been navigating everything like Hollywood, reality, TV, public scrutiny, parenthood. 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.439 Do you have a guiding philosophy through it all? 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:19.960 Just following what I want to do? 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.440 And also when I did start out acting, you were 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.320 either you either did movies or you did TV. When 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.040 you did a talk show or an interview, you were 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.680 there was a mystery because you needed people to see 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:37.159 you as that character. And I love, actually, though that 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.760 it's all that we are more connected with fans and 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.760 be able to have that interaction because that's why we 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.920 all have a job, and it's nice to have that. 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.560 But I think I love though that the business has changed, 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.200 and I love that we're able to do like doing 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.560 a podcast, doing reality, doing a TV show, doing movies. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.520 It's all entertainment, and so I love that there's just 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.960 such so many more platforms to be able to express 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:08.080 yourself creatively. 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:13.080