Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills vet Denise RIchards made a restricted return to the franchise in 2024 earlier than increasing her actuality TV wings on the 2025 TV schedule along with her Wild Issues collection for Bravo and her short-lived run on Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Check. Sadly, her life has been simply as drama-filled off-screen on the tumultuous highway to divorcing her husband of practically seven years, Aaron Phypers, who responded tor her latest restraining order submitting with bombshell allegations of substance abuse and endangering their daughter.
The most recent chapter in Richards’ marital story, which beforehand revolved round her up-and-down relationship with ex Charlie Sheen, took off earlier in July 2025 when Phypers filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable variations. Quickly after, it wasn’t simply insider sources sharing private particulars, with each events going public themselves with main accusations.
Denise Richards Makes Numerous Bodily Abuse Allegations In Profitable Restraining Order Submitting
L:ess than two weeks after the divorce paperwork was filed, Denise Richards made a authorized request (on July 16) for a restraining order towards Aaron Phypers. Inside the submitting, she particulars an assortment of allegations, together with:
All through our relationship, Aaron would continuously violently choke me, violently squeeze my head with each arms, tightly squeeze my arms, violently slap me in my face and head, aggressively slam my head into the toilet towel rack, threaten to kill me, maintain me down together with his knee on my again to the purpose the place I must plead with him to get off me in order that he wouldn’t kill me and hack into my laptop computer and cellphone and obtain all of my textual content messages.
Elsewhere within the paperwork, Richards accuses Phyper of harming her duing a number of particular cases in the course of the first half of 2025, with a blow-up battle on July 4 being a catalyst for the cut up. Listed here are a number of the different controversial allegations acknowledged within the submitting (by way of US Weekly):
- ““Aaron has triggered me no less than three concussions.”
- “Aaron repeatedly obtained inside two inches of my face and screamed at me degrading profanities, together with calling me a ‘cunt whore’ and a ‘piece of shit.'”
- “Aaron chased me and grabbed each of my arms forcefully and pushed me and dragged me to the bottom. I landed on the steps, inflicting immense ache.”
- “Whereas I used to be asleep and with out my permission, Aaron went into my settings on my laptop computer and thru my iCloud account synched my iMessages (texts) to my laptop computer and downloaded every little thing from my iCloud (included my non-public textual content messages) onto my laptop computer after which took photos of my textual content messages (which have been then on my laptop computer).”
- “Later, whereas I used to be on the bathroom peeing, Aaron smashed me on the highest of my head with the palm of his hand whereas screaming at me, ‘Give me your fucking cellphone.'”
Inside the submitting, Denise Richards additionally included two pictures of herself along with her left eye bruised and blackened. She claimed that Aaron Phypers triggered that harm by hanging her within the face on January 17.
Regardless of Phypers denying all the claims made within the restraining order request, the court docket did certainly grant Richards the order for now, although a court docket listening to later in July may have an effect on that ruling.
Aaron Phypers Claims Richards ‘Conjured Up’ Unfaithful Allegations And Makes His Personal Accusations
In a letter allegedly written by Phypers to share with members of the family and associates, which was obtained by Web page Six, Phypers lays out quite a lot of troublesome accusations about Richards’ habits, accusing her of assorted varieties substance abuse. As he put it:
For practically a decade, she has struggled with an dependancy to Vicodin (which she jokingly calls ‘Vitamin D’ or ‘white chestnuts’), combined with Adderall and tequila. A few of you already know this has been a difficulty for over 20 years. She’s now not consuming actual meals, and I’ve witnessed her go out from substances — placing herself and others in peril, together with whereas driving with our daughter.
Phypers additionally brings their daughter up once more in an try to spin one among Richards’ abuse claims by saying that she was the one who obtained out of line on July 4, and that she destroyed his cellphone.
On July 4th, a easy act — ordering meals for our daughter Eloise — led to an unthinkable discovery. Denise accused me of utilizing her card, and within the confusion, my cellphone disappeared. After looking for over 20 hours and being bodily attacked after I requested for it again, I finally discovered it smashed inside a trash bag, hidden beneath rotting rubbish and litter. Once I requested why, she denied it utterly. That very same night time, she texted me saying she was submitting for divorce.
It is unclear how Phypers would have acquired the textual content if his cellphone was destroyed, nor why he was the one who filed for divorce if she was the one who stated she’d do it. In any case, he states that he is by no means bodily attacked or harmed Richards, after which says:
I’ve solely ever stepped in to guard her or others — together with separating her from bodily attacking her daughter — all the time coming from a spot of care and concern.
He apparently did not go into element about how Richards went about bodily attacking their daughter. He did declare to have discovered an Airtab on his automobile, suggesting he was being adopted or tracked, and says that his aged mother and father have been “frightened and mistreated” as a result of they’ve been supportive of their son all through the connection.
As for the picture of Denise Richards sporting a black eye, Phypers claims that it was a photograph taken in winter 2022, and that she drunkenly slipped and hit her face on the steps of his then-open medical clinic Q360, which has since been closed.
On the time of writing, Richards hasn’t but provided up a rebuttal to every little thing her ex reportedly stated in his letter to others in his life .But when and when it occurs, she probably will not be pulling any metaphorical punches.