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Denise Richards shared her husband Aaron Phypers’ “biggest betrayal,” as she addressed how it was “devastating.” Meanwhile, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star also accused him of deleting “evidence” from her devices.
Denise is now in a contentious divorce with Aaron, who filed for divorce in July of last year. The actress has filed a restraining order against him, alleging that he physically abused her. Aaron denied all allegations, and he accused her of cheating and substance abuse.
“I’ve never been in a situation like this. For him to retaliate and do a whole smear campaign against me — that was … the biggest betrayal I’ve ever [experienced],” said Denise on The Dr. Ramani Network. “I couldn’t believe it. And then I’ve discovered during the process of our divorce, so many lives he led.”
“And that has been devastating for me, feeling like [our marriage] was a business arrangement for him,” Denise added. “He looked at me as, I feel, a product. … I can’t explain it, but it certainly wasn’t a marriage. And that’s been the hardest thing … harder than the physical abuse.”
Denise clarified the biggest betrayal was Aaron’s attempt to “paint me out to be something I’m not.”
“He doesn’t even know I have discovered all this stuff, [that] people come out of the woodwork that are in his life that have shared so much [about him],” she said. “Because we have the restraining order. I don’t talk to him.”
“He and his dad did threaten to show the world, like, text messages between me and this guy,” alleged Denise. “I was like, how do you do something like that? So I was threatened with that. And what he did is technically called revenge porn. He sold it. I heard he sold it to, like, Daily Mail.”
Denise also shared what else Aaron allegedly did amid their divorce.
“He took my devices and deleted a lot of things off of there, a lot of videos and pictures that I had that would have been evidence,” she claimed. “I [had] emailed [it] to … an old email address, the pictures of the black eye when it happened. I almost deleted them. And I’m so grateful I didn’t.”
“But my dad said, ‘You must have known something for you to hang on to those.’ And I said, ‘I must [have], deep down,'” she continued. “But if anyone is ever in that situation … the biggest thing is to document.”