Whatever went on in the divorce and marriage is between Charlie and Denise. I just don’t think having children on a reality show is right. These are young kids and they have no say in how they are “used” by the director or producer. If Denise truly wants to take the high road, then please don’t do the show. To me Nicole Kidman was the epitome of grace in a divorce. She carried her head high and never said a word against Tom. I guess I just wish more Hollywood stars would do the same.

I have never een a fan of Denise, but this article made me like her a little bit. She seems to be a decent mom in a no-win situation. As far as the birthday party thing, she said she tried to give Charlie a list of HER DAUGHTER’S friends and he wasn’t interested. Instead he invited the children of his friends.

I’d never thought much about Denise, other than “she’s pretty” until the Richie-Heather thing transpired. Denise running off into the sunset with her friend’s husband, left a really bad taste in my mouth. Plus, she flaunted in such a way…I will always think of that when I see or read anything about her. Tacky, Tacky, and dead a$$ wrong.

I do appreciate her honesty during this interview. Celebrities spend so much time these days denying pregnancies, relationships, weight loss strategies, and even marriages. It’s refreshing to have someone just put it out there.

I think her show will be interesting. Whatever she cares to share about Charlie, she’s entitled to. That was her life, her experience. She has the right to tell her story…and he happens to have been in it. As for the children being on the show-I dont see the problem. If you’re a mother with a reality show, the reality is that you’re a MOTHER with a reality show. LOL. It wouldn’t be “reality” if such a component of her life was missing. I think Kimora’s Life in the Fab Lane and Run’s House are great examples of including the entire family tastefully.

i love and TOTALLY respect Denise

i mean, i know what she’s going through, except, my divorce wasn’t public.
my ex totally deserves to be talked about but i will not lower myself when im with my daughters b/c thats their daddy and they love him. but i appluad denise for being so tough and cool through everything.

I’m not a fan nor a non-fan of Denise Richards but this was a good interview. I do think it was kind of contradictoring for her to mention how she doesn’t want anyone bad-mouthing Charlie but it seems she did a lot of that in the interview!

I probably won’t watch her reality show but I really don’t think she’s “exploiting” her children by having them on it. Obviously, she was right when she said she’ll either be thought of as exploiting them or ignoring them, no matter what. Come on, her show would not make it if those girls weren’t on it. Seriously.

She seems like a really sweet, good person. She did mention that she knows she had responsibility for the divorce, just as Charlie did.

Melissa Etheridge is a neighbor of Denise’s. She had said time and time again how Denis exploits the children by taking them from the nanny and organising tabloid photographers to take pictures of her to ensure she is in magazines, newspapers etc.

This is not a nice woman. It is devious and cunning. Charlie is often portrayed as the bad one yet he is the only parent those children have looking out for their interests.

I want to be clear about my comments. There have been a fair number of posts that state, ‘children shouldn’t be on reality shows,’ or something to that effect. That was what I was addressing. I understand the opposition to the show given that Charlie is *against* it. But my point is that not everyone is using the *both parents have to be on board* argument. A lot of people are simply stating that they don’t believe children belong on reality shows and that is fine. My point is simply that a lot of reality show participants include their children, the fact that both parents are involved/agreed to it is irrelevant if one firmly belives that children simply have no place on these shows.

I like denise and she is doing nothing wrong IMO. Charlie isn’t exactly an angel with all his past behavior and he has talked about her too. She is just saying her side of the story. She seems very much hands on, and her girls are adorable. Lots of people have reality shows with their kids or babies on, tori spelling, travis and shanna barker, scott baio, kimora simmons, etc, does that make people uncomfortable too, I think it’s a double standard where denise is concerned. Also it’s good she tries to be nice to the paparazzi, much better than cursing or throwing a fit, cause that just makes the kids nervous. and paparazzi is something all celebrity children have to deal with.

She doesn’t want to talk badly about Charlie but then she takes every opportunity to do so through-out the interview? Ummm… ‘kay.

Is this woman even thinking that her daughters might read this someday? She might not bash Charlie around them (I somehow doubt it), but one day they are going to read this interview and see what she said. Or, who knows – maybe their friends will hear their parents discussing it and tell them what they heard. It’s probably already happened before and here we go again…

This interview just reinforced everything I had already thought of Denise: self-involved, hypocritical, and bitter. As far as her reality show… I’m with Charlie: BOYCOTT.