Speaker 1: Okay, Denise Richards, we meet again. It was supposed to
Speaker 1: be in person and you were going to interview me,
Speaker 1: which we're going to do in the new year, but
Speaker 1: since we had this time on the calendar, I wanted
Speaker 1: us to just have a conversation, like between the two
Speaker 1: of us, not you know, just a discussion. Okay, so
Speaker 1: let's just get housekeeping out of the way. When I
Speaker 1: saw you in New York, I said to you that
Speaker 1: I called our publicist to be like, why is Denise
Speaker 1: like on the show for free? Because they're going to
Speaker 1: use it the whole season as a promo, because she's
Speaker 1: going to be the get in the star, but she's
Speaker 1: not being paid, Like you shoot one scene and then
Speaker 1: they're going to promo it as if you were on
Speaker 1: the whole entire season. And then we talked and you know,
Speaker 1: you said you went to something of Garcels, you were
Speaker 1: supporting her and go into an event for her, and
Speaker 1: then whatever your body, your choice. We kind of dropped it.
Speaker 1: And then me as a viewer, I didn't even see
Speaker 1: the show at the time, but like saw all these
Speaker 1: promos of you at this pot dinner and like you
Speaker 1: seem out of sorts and like the whole entire promo
Speaker 1: for this episode is Denise Richards, who's not a cast member,
Speaker 1: who's not being paid. And then I even saw more
Speaker 1: promos than about this upside down jacket. So what did
Speaker 1: you did you feel differently after that whole episode came
Speaker 1: out and all the promos about what we talked about
Speaker 1: in New York.
Speaker 2: Well, I actually didn't even watch the show, and I
Speaker 2: didn't even see the episode where I showed up for
Speaker 2: Garcelves her screening and all of that. I believe they
Speaker 2: did give me a guest the appearance after Okay, but
Speaker 2: I you know, it is what it is, you know.
Speaker 2: I was asked by garcel hey, would you go to
Speaker 2: a dinner or a lunch or something, And I said,
Speaker 2: you know what, if you're there.
Speaker 3: I will, I'll go and do it.
Speaker 2: And I found it a little odd to have someone who
Speaker 2: is supposedly sober host a weed party.
Speaker 1: Interesting to begin with, yes, and interesting.
Speaker 2: And I voyce that I do not do weed, I
Speaker 2: don't do edibles, I don't do any of that and
Speaker 2: doesn't mix well with my body. I've tried read twice
Speaker 2: for the record, and I don't like it. And so
Speaker 2: I said, I don't think I should go to this
Speaker 2: because I don't just because I cannot have weed. And
Speaker 2: they said that they, you know, don't worry, we have
Speaker 2: meal whatever without reading it.
Speaker 3: And so okay, yeah, no, I was.
Speaker 2: I went sideways there and came home and Aaron was like,
Speaker 2: what is wrong with you?
Speaker 3: And I go, I don't know. I've never been like that.
Speaker 1: What do you say? What happened? Did you drink before?
Speaker 1: Did you take something? Did you mix something?
Speaker 3: Anything? I took?
Speaker 2: I had a drink before I went, and that I
Speaker 2: was nervous seeing the women.
Speaker 3: That was it.
Speaker 2: And then when I was there, I felt, first of all,
Speaker 2: I was sick, and I said, I also said, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not feeling good.
Speaker 3: I'm sick. And I did three COVID tests.
Speaker 2: They all came back negative, and one of the producers said,
Speaker 2: as long as my test is negative, I could still go.
Speaker 2: I said, okay, because I didn't want to cancer. I
Speaker 2: didn't want to not in hindsight, I pressure and don't
Speaker 2: go on. I didn't want them to say, oh, she's
Speaker 2: didn't show.
Speaker 3: Up or whatever, because I'm not what. I've been a
Speaker 3: whole thing, you know.
Speaker 2: Yes, But progressively during the evening I felt worse and worse,
Speaker 2: and then I just remember not half the night.
Speaker 3: It was bizarre.
Speaker 1: So were you on cold medicine or something like?
Speaker 3: Do you what?
Speaker 1: Do you what? Do you attribute being out of sorts
Speaker 1: like that too?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean I took a cold, like just regular cold
Speaker 2: medicine before I went, but nothing crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like I thought maybe you would take
Speaker 1: in the initially, so well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, I have no idea what was
Speaker 2: Maybe there was a mix up in the meal or.
Speaker 3: The water or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2: All I know is when I got home, I was like, what,
Speaker 2: there's something wrong with me?
Speaker 1: Wow? Did you think you had said something you might regret?
Speaker 1: Or were you like in your head about it or
Speaker 1: you're not?
Speaker 3: Like you know what?
Speaker 2: I won't even watch it because I'm sure I obviously
Speaker 2: made an ans out of myself. So I was like,
Speaker 2: why the hell am I going to watch myself like that?
Speaker 2: And I told Joel, our publicist. I gave her a
Speaker 2: heads up when I was in New York. I go,
Speaker 2: there's an episode coming out that's probably not going to
Speaker 2: work for very well, So just to give you a
Speaker 2: heads up.
Speaker 1: And in rech like, so, go if today Bravo called
Speaker 1: you and said, will you come to this lunch for
Speaker 1: this guest feed, would you do it again?
Speaker 2: I would go, yeah, okay, do you know here's the
Speaker 2: thing It's like Also also the thing too, is I
Speaker 2: don't know why people are making such a big deal
Speaker 2: at it. I don't have to because they've never seen
Speaker 2: me that way. But all of these women are always
Speaker 2: you know, even eric Al was even saying how high
Speaker 2: she was and lit, and a lot of them get
Speaker 2: very you know, drink a lot and get drunk and
Speaker 2: all of that.
Speaker 3: And so I was like, well, why the hell is
Speaker 3: this such a big deal about me? I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: That's a great point. That's a great point. Do you
Speaker 1: think that So the part where you're coming at Erica,
Speaker 1: do you have clarity, yes, what your problem was? First
Speaker 1: of all, just to make you feel better. I think
Speaker 1: people I don't even feel like they're laughing at you.
Speaker 1: I think it's like the perfect comedy Gold Housewives seen
Speaker 1: like while in the moment, it's cringe like, you're probably like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I made such an ass of myself.
Speaker 1: I did that last summer at someone's house. And I
Speaker 1: came back thinking everybody was like never going to speak
Speaker 1: to me again or thinking about it, and they were laughing,
Speaker 1: like what do you mean. We've seen people so fucked up,
Speaker 1: so like you could be in your head too. Obviously
Speaker 1: it's on TV, believe me. I was at an Oscar
Speaker 1: party the night before, that big major party in La
Speaker 1: that like is the most everybody's Madonna, everybody's famous beyond
Speaker 1: and I drank a giant martini and it was like
Speaker 1: a fish bowl and I was in the middle of
Speaker 1: the party and I said to my friend, I won't
Speaker 1: be able to make it to the door without phone.
Speaker 1: We have to sit down here on this couch and
Speaker 1: like recover and you've got to just somehow. I'm like
Speaker 1: weekend at Bernie's and get me out because I'm not.
Speaker 1: It's not going to go well. So we've all been there,
Speaker 1: we'll be there, but you're on television.
Speaker 3: Yeah I know, Yeah, it's on TV.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, whatever it is, what it is. It
Speaker 2: was a wead party, So of all parties to be
Speaker 2: like that at that was the party like that.
Speaker 1: So you think it's something with maybe the cold medicine
Speaker 1: and a cocktail or maybe it was.
Speaker 3: I have no idea. I had one cocktail boy left.
Speaker 2: And even there, I remember I only had a half
Speaker 2: a good drink.
Speaker 3: I held on to the whole time.
Speaker 1: It's just a perfect campy thing to laugh about. So
Speaker 1: I don't feel like people are like laughing at you.
Speaker 1: And yeah, for Jill, she probably doesn't care at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what this whole thing is. It's about
Speaker 1: that somebody do saying or doing something stupid and laughing.
Speaker 1: So that's my take.
Speaker 2: I just didn't understand I have such a big deal
Speaker 2: when all these other women go nuts.
Speaker 3: On this show.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 2: And that, uh, that Kyle, who's sober, is hosting a
Speaker 2: weed party.
Speaker 3: Why would you interesting party?
Speaker 1: If you're sober, that's interesting. And maybe she's sober from alcohol,
Speaker 1: but would partake in we maybe obviously.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, she's California sober.
Speaker 1: California so so so you think it's like sober light
Speaker 1: sober sometimes sober ish.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What about the situation with Erica, do you have clarity
Speaker 1: as to what that was?
Speaker 2: Yes, I felt like I didn't even have I didn't
Speaker 2: even know where to start. That's why I come telling her.
Speaker 2: Did you watch the show like where do I start.
Speaker 2: It starts from the beginning of the season that I
Speaker 2: was on to the end, Like I didn't even how
Speaker 2: do you not know what? You were such an asshole
Speaker 2: to me? You know that, I just what I was
Speaker 2: trying to ask her what I said. I don't know
Speaker 2: what aired is that you were so nice to me
Speaker 2: my first.
Speaker 3: Season you kept going on about me being.
Speaker 2: A bond girl and you were, you know, so into
Speaker 2: wanting to be my friend. And then the second season,
Speaker 2: like what the hell did I ever do to you?
Speaker 2: Why were you such a bitch to me?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: And I as a as a housewife, as a former housewife,
Speaker 1: I think I know what you were saying. You're saying
Speaker 1: it wasn't one specific moment at one specific party. You're
Speaker 1: saying energetically, it was a shift, and like to act
Speaker 1: like she didn't know about the shift was like gaslighting
Speaker 1: in your mind, Like what do you mean?
Speaker 2: And I didn't want to go through the list of things,
Speaker 2: but I felt like I didn't have to.
Speaker 3: She's not stupid. She fucking knew got it.
Speaker 1: I get that. Like I used to even when Sonya
Speaker 1: used to be talking like in circles about something, I
Speaker 1: would kind of understand what she was trying to say,
Speaker 1: Like you weren't you weren't articulate, but I got what
Speaker 1: you were saying. I mean I didn't watch the whole season,
Speaker 1: but I knew what you were saying. You were saying,
Speaker 1: like overall you've been a little bit. Yeah, I get
Speaker 1: what You're okay, got it? Well, the joke was had
Speaker 1: to be on you that night, and there's always somebody
Speaker 1: who the joke is on, and there's always somebody who
Speaker 1: is doing the joking about you know, so you're just you.
Speaker 1: You were in the hot seat and then just the
Speaker 1: jacket thing with Dori. So yeah, for some reason, I
Speaker 1: reminded me of Dirinda. Sometimes with Dirinda, if you come
Speaker 1: at Dirinda and you say something, she feels like she knows,
Speaker 1: like she doesn't want something to comme at her, so
Speaker 1: she wants to cut it off at the past. And
Speaker 1: it felt like with you with Duri, you were like,
Speaker 1: don't even.
Speaker 3: You know what? Does?
Speaker 2: She does this with everyone and especially me? Anytime you
Speaker 2: see her, she'd be like, oh, lipstick doesn't look right,
Speaker 2: you need some lip gloss. Oh you've got mass scarat,
Speaker 2: you've got your hairs out. I'm like That's why I
Speaker 2: was like, stop, I don't care if my lip glosses
Speaker 2: not on or I have little Masscara.
Speaker 3: That's why I was like, shut up, shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2: Interesting because and that's why I was like stop, do
Speaker 2: you feel like you need to do that to make
Speaker 2: yourself feel more secure?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like there's always a connection to your parents. She's always
Speaker 1: making some comment about your parents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, always, Not once have I seen her? Has she
Speaker 2: not said one thing about my appearance?
Speaker 1: So interesting, that's funny. That's very housewives too, that like
Speaker 1: we would see this in a vacuum and be like, okay,
Speaker 1: she's telling you your jackets upside down. Like girls, girl,
Speaker 1: like you have toilet paper on your shoe or you
Speaker 1: have you know, Schmitz on your face.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: But I didn't give a shit that my jacket was
Speaker 2: upside down. I wanted to get the hell out of there.
Speaker 1: You just grabbed your jacket and we're like hauling us,
Speaker 1: and you know what.
Speaker 2: I did try it on for my glam after and
Speaker 2: they were even like, you know, you can't tell sometimes
Speaker 2: if it is upside down or right.
Speaker 1: Oh, like some sweaters you don't know where the arms are.
Speaker 3: It's like this.
Speaker 2: Fathery thing and I just wanted to get out and leave.
Speaker 2: I didn't care if I could have left the jacket
Speaker 2: there for all that.
Speaker 1: Well, people are laughing, which I think, Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 3: At least they're laughing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I don't so you don't have to
Speaker 1: see it. I never I only ever watched my stuff once.
Speaker 1: You didn't even watch it once.
Speaker 3: I don't watch watching myself.
Speaker 1: Did Aaron watch it or no.
Speaker 3: We don't. He didn't even watch when we were on it.
Speaker 1: What does he think of the whole thing? Is he
Speaker 1: into you being there? Does? What would he think about
Speaker 1: going back?
Speaker 3: He thinks all the women are crazy?
Speaker 1: But does he like it as a concept? Does he
Speaker 1: like being on it? Or does he want you there
Speaker 1: or not there?
Speaker 2: Teams that He's like, whatever you want to do, I
Speaker 2: will support amazing.
Speaker 1: I liked him a lot. I liked him a lot.
Speaker 3: Thank you. He really liked you too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd liked him a lot. I was actually excited
Speaker 1: for you to possibly be coming here because I thought
Speaker 1: we'd all go to dinner. So I want to will
Speaker 1: whether in l a Yeah, I like him. I like you, guys.
Speaker 1: I love you you know, I love that you really
Speaker 1: it's not like an act. You really don't give a shit.
Speaker 2: I don't I know what when you get a certain age,
Speaker 2: it's like, all right, people are gonna say I was
Speaker 2: fucked up.
Speaker 3: At a night.
Speaker 2: Who has not in their life done like that? Unfortunately
Speaker 2: it was on television. I honestly do not know what.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I accidentally had something that had
Speaker 2: beat in it I have because I cannot.
Speaker 3: Have it, I don't know. But whatever it was one night, it.
Speaker 2: Was on television for two episodes that I have to live.
Speaker 1: Kim Passenger on Blind Date not that bad. That was
Speaker 1: a funny movie. So does Housewives even hold a candle
Speaker 1: to when you had when you experienced your craziness with
Speaker 1: your divorce?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: So like, yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 2: It's like when you've gone through so much publicly, maybe
Speaker 2: if I and that's the thing I think a lot
Speaker 2: of the women didn't understand my second season where I
Speaker 2: would let stuff just roll off my back is because
Speaker 2: maybe if I hadn't gone through so much stuff publicly,
Speaker 2: certain things would have bothered me.
Speaker 3: But because I have gone through so much, I'm like,
Speaker 3: who gives his shit?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: It's nothing, and the stuff they were accusing me of,
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, I have had worse things said about
Speaker 2: me publicly, So that's why I didn't even but I
Speaker 2: think though maybe I should have acted like it did.
Speaker 3: And I don't know.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, you've been you know, you've been through
Speaker 1: the ringer. A lot of people were like I loved Denny's,
Speaker 1: like she's so beautiful, and I loved hearing this, and
Speaker 1: I loved hearing that, like, so you're very, very very
Speaker 1: beloved and to a point where it was even not
Speaker 1: that I thought you were disliked, but it was surprising,
Speaker 1: like a lot of people with a lot of love
Speaker 1: about you. And yes, you've been through hell and back.
Speaker 1: And I often think about that regarding like there are
Speaker 1: hate pages against me, hate accounts, people have lives hating me,
Speaker 1: and I'll post something and the more hate it's getting,
Speaker 1: the more views it's getting, Like it's almost like hate
Speaker 1: cells now and used to be sex cells.
Speaker 2: I agree with you with hate cells, because that's crazy.
Speaker 2: That's where it starts with like the tabloids, the magazines
Speaker 2: that we used to have, and then it's obviously online
Speaker 2: and so yeah, it's it's sad that people you know,
Speaker 2: you can't be happy and positive all the time.
Speaker 1: It's sad. But what I'm saying to you is that
Speaker 1: I realize now, like when there's more hate right, sadly
Speaker 1: you're doing something right because it's triggering people and it's
Speaker 1: bothering them that you are successful. Like I'm finding my
Speaker 1: head is confused because there'll be something that I posted,
Speaker 1: something about a bagel and some caviat like the salmon row,
Speaker 1: and you would have thought, I said, you would have
Speaker 1: thought I abducted so much child like it was such
Speaker 1: vile hate that was crazy. But the thing was through
Speaker 1: the roof in views like it aggravated people for some reason,
Speaker 1: that I would do this and that people would want
Speaker 1: to watch this, like it drives people nuts.
Speaker 3: I know, it's the society we're living in, Yes,