Denise Richards is giving curious fans an update on her daughters Sami Sheen and Lola Sheen’s relationship after the inaugural 2025 season of her family’s reality TV show, Denise Richards & Her Wild Things.
“My older girls are doing great. They’re sisters,” Denise, 55, exclusively told Us on Friday, November 14, while attending the launch party of friend Dorit Kemsley’s new beverage partnership with Maison d’Or.
“There’s times they’ll have a little, you know, little fit here and there, but then they’ll go shopping or out to lunch after,” Denise continued of her girls’ relationship despite some onscreen fighting. “My sister and I are a year and a half apart, so I very much understand.”
While attending the celebratory affair, held at The Sun Rose West Hollywood and planned by Nick Gentile, also gave fans an update on her youngest daughter, Eloise Richards.
“Eloise is doing great,” she added. “She’s 15 and she always gets along with them, though.”
Denise — who shares Sami and Lola with ex-husband Charlie Sheen and who legally adopted Eloise in 2011 — first peeled back the curtain on her personal life when appearing on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for two seasons from 2019 to 2020.
Five years later, in 2025, she destroyed the curtain altogether via her own Bravo reality series, Denis Richards & Her Wild Things.
“After Housewives, [producer] Alex Baskin approached me and asked if I would want to do a family reality show,” Denise told Us exclusively in February 2025. “Obviously, I wanted the girls to really want to do it and I think it’s also a great time for them. They’ve always lived, basically, in the shadows of their parents where they’re the daughters of, and it’s a nice time for them to be able to be themselves and shine.”
She added at the time, “I wanted us to just live our life. One of the biggest things I wanted the girls to do is to just be their true, authentic self. I don’t want anything inauthentic. … I think that there’s a lot of things that a lot of people can relate to.”
As Denise and her daughters showed their true selves for the cameras, the Starship Troopers star was navigating a “painful” split from estranged husband, Aaron Phypers. As Us previously reported, Phypers, 54, filed for divorce on July 7, 2025, after six years of marriage.
Denise filed for a restraining order days later, accusing Phypers of being abusive during their relationship, which he adamantly denied. The court granted Richards a permanent restraining order against Phypers on November 7, 2025. Phypers was arrested at court on October 17, 2025, after testifying as part of the restraining order trial.
Prosecutors charged Phypers with two felony counts of injuring a spouse and two felony counts of dissuading a witness by force or threat. Phypers is facing years in prison if convicted. The pair’s contentious divorce proceedings remain ongoing.
“I think anytime you have a big change in your life — whether it’s challenging or something super positive — I just think that you enter a new chapter in your life, and so I always look at things in the positive way, even when things can be challenging for me,” Denise told Us of her next chapter.
“I try to keep things positive and moving forward,” she added. “And things happen for a reason, and there’s lessons and all that.”
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